What does it take to cross a border, and what does it take to belong? Sandra Noeth examines the entangled experiences of borders and of collectivity through the perspective of bodies. By dramaturgical analyses of contemporary artistic work from Lebanon and Palestine, Noeth shows how borders and collectivity are constructed and negotiated through performative, corporeal, movement-based, and sensory strategies and processes. This interdisciplinary study is made urgent by social and political transformations across the Middle East and beyond from 2010 onwards. It puts to the fore the residual, body-bound structural effects of borders and of collectivity and proceeds to develop notions of agency and responsibility that are immanently bound to bodies in relation.

About the Author
Sandra Noeth is a professor at Hochschulubergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin and an international curator. Her work focuses on ethical and political perspectives in body-based artistic practice and theory.


Book Information
ISBN 9783837643633
Author Sandra Noeth
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Transcript Verlag
Publisher Transcript Verlag
Weight(grams) 666g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm * 15mm