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Negative dramaturgies and the development of productive negation
The content of this dissertation is a cognitive map of divergent methodologies that contributed to the creation of a practice based on physical and conceptual, academic and non-academic, modes of knowledge-making and knowledge-gathering. I will show how the act of negating, whether verbally or throu...
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| author | Hartmann, Zee |
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| description | The content of this dissertation is a cognitive map of divergent methodologies that contributed to the creation of a practice based on physical and conceptual, academic and non-academic, modes of knowledge-making and knowledge-gathering. I will show how the act of negating, whether verbally or through conceptual strategies, elucidates the untapped potential of dance- or theatre-making processes. Weaving together a collection of ideas by academics, thinkers and makers from a variety of disciplines, together with the design of my own negative dramaturgy (which I have preliminarily coined here as Productive Negation), I aim to bring the omniscient negativity of dramaturgy into focus as a mobilizing, dynamic strategy for invention. The act of negation embodies a powerful force of conviction that clarifies muddled subjectivity popular in art criticism today, and yet it leaves enough room for focused investigation. This can be seen in the proposed four-step working model of Productive Negation based on Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. Far from being an in-depth discourse on theories of negation, Productive Negation is a methodology that attempts to marry theoretical and practical applications through the interpretive voice of the dramaturg in a collaborative environment. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/31644 Negative dramaturgies and the development of productive negation Hartmann, Zee Fleishman, Mark drama The content of this dissertation is a cognitive map of divergent methodologies that contributed to the creation of a practice based on physical and conceptual, academic and non-academic, modes of knowledge-making and knowledge-gathering. I will show how the act of negating, whether verbally or through conceptual strategies, elucidates the untapped potential of dance- or theatre-making processes. Weaving together a collection of ideas by academics, thinkers and makers from a variety of disciplines, together with the design of my own negative dramaturgy (which I have preliminarily coined here as Productive Negation), I aim to bring the omniscient negativity of dramaturgy into focus as a mobilizing, dynamic strategy for invention. The act of negation embodies a powerful force of conviction that clarifies muddled subjectivity popular in art criticism today, and yet it leaves enough room for focused investigation. This can be seen in the proposed four-step working model of Productive Negation based on Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. Far from being an in-depth discourse on theories of negation, Productive Negation is a methodology that attempts to marry theoretical and practical applications through the interpretive voice of the dramaturg in a collaborative environment. 2020-04-21T08:41:30Z 2020-04-21T08:41:30Z 2019 2020-04-21T08:38:30Z Master Thesis Masters Master of Arts https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31644 eng application/pdf Department of Drama Faculty of Humanities |
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| title | Negative dramaturgies and the development of productive negation |
| title_full | Negative dramaturgies and the development of productive negation |
| title_fullStr | Negative dramaturgies and the development of productive negation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Negative dramaturgies and the development of productive negation |
| title_short | Negative dramaturgies and the development of productive negation |
| title_sort | negative dramaturgies and the development of productive negation |
| topic | drama |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31644 |
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