Spheres of Estrangement: Art, Politics, Curating
<p>“We often have in mind the example that Brecht uses to describe the interval, the suspended time where in the middle of a play on stage the actors aren’t playing – so they are no longer actors – and the spectators don’t have anything to watch – so they are no longer spectators, it is a very beautiful picture of a moment of de-subjectivization, a small human strike.”</p> <p>Originating in Viktor Shklovsky’s analysis of Russian formalism, ostranenie describes the strategy of estrangement – the moment in an artwork that briefly overturns the sense that things have always been as they seem. The interval and it analogous terms – estrangement, alienation, defamiliarisation – became central tenants of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht’s literary partnership in their development of shock theory and epic theatre…</p>
Publisher: Dorothee Richter, Michael Birchall, Ronald Kolb
Editors: Jonas Becker, Benjamin T. Busch, Matthew Hanson, Penny Rafferty, Paul Stewart
Contributors: Joesphine Baker-Heaslip, Jonas Becker, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Dan Bustillo, Lilian Cameron, Joey Cannizzaro, Carson Chan, Jeni Fulton, Ken Gonzales-Day, Matthew Hanson, Anke Hennig, Alistair Hudson, Alison Hugill, Suzana Milevska, Jared Pappas-Kelley, Penny Rafferty, PUNK IS DADA, Claire Ruud, Jack Schneider, Adrian Shaw, Paul Stewart, Sam Thorne
Interviewer: Alison Hugill, Claire Ruud, Penny Rafferty
Proofreader: Stephanie Carwin
Designer: Biotop 3000, Ronald Kolb
Part of: OnCurating
ISSN: 2673-2904