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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2016

"How activist plays do politics"

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This chapter takes as an empirical basis an investigation (interviews and observations) conducted in Paris and New York between 2005 and 2011. It explores the conditions and forms of hybridization of art and politics by studying activist plays “in the making,” within urban public spaces. In these explicitly politicized performances, theatre artists take up positions on “timely” issues (such as the Iraq war or socio-economic inequalities) by reinvesting their professional identity and know-how. I pay attention on how these performances have to be compatible with activist constraints (their temporal format and technical apparatus having to be reduced) and with the uncertain evolution of street events (requiring improvisation or potential dealings with the police). In its last section, the text shows that the hybrid nature of such repertoires may have an ambivalent effect on audiences (engendering both participation and misunderstanding, notably when resorting to irony) and the media.
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halshs-01722013 , version 1 (02-03-2018)

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Lechaux Bleuwenn. "How activist plays do politics". Routledge. in Roussel, Violaine, Banerji, Anurima (eds), How To Do Politics With Art, Londres/New York, Routledge, pp.65-88, 2016. ⟨halshs-01722013⟩
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