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The 1998 Performance
Studies Conference explores the cultural, theatrical, and critical relations
between performance and death.
"Theatres of Death"
considers how performance-with its charged connections to corporeal knowledges,
spectators, and sites-may figure death in ways that question prevailing
discourses. Through the many public and private acts which call upon
and celebrate the dead, or which bury and memorialize them, performance
remains implicated in death as a medical state, a legal problem, a social
event, and a cultural production. In turn, death challenges assumptions
about live performance and the critical tools used to capture and interpret
it after its death.
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