Performance and the City

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: City/Text/Performance K.Solga with D.J.Hopkins & S.Orr PART I: PEDESTRIANISMS, OR REMEMBERING THE CITY Pedestrianisms or Remembering the City: Introduction D.J.Hopkins Ways to Walk New York After 9/11 M.Carlson Memory/Memorial/Performance: Lower Manhattan, 1776 / 2001 D.J.Hopkins & S.Orr Patricide and the Passerby R.Schneider PART II: URBAN PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL POLICY Urban Performance and Cultural Policy: Introduction K.Solga Multicultural Text, Intercultural Performance: The Performance Ecology of Contemporary Toronto R.Knowles Mission Accomplished: Broadway, 9/11, and the Republican National Convention R.A.Rugg Performing the Civic Transnational: Cultural Production, Governance, and Citizenship in Contemporary London M.McKinnie PART III: PERFORMING (FOR) ONE ANOTHER: CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITIES Performing (for) One Another: Introduction S.Orr Surviving the City: Press Agents, Publicity Stunts, and the Spectacle of the Urban Female Body M.Schweitzer Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity K.Solga Global Exposures: Blur Street and Interurban Self-Portraiture (a photo essay) Curated by K.Irwin, R.Viader Knowles & L.Levin PART IV: AT THE CITY LIMITS At the City Limits: Introduction K.Solga Staging the Imagined City in Australian Theatre J.Tompkins Agency and Complicity in 'A Special Civic Room': London's Tate Modern Turbine Hall J.Harvie Staging a Vanished Community: Daniel Libeskind's Scenography in the Berlin Jewish Museum K.van den Berg 13 Can the City Speak? Site-Specific Art After Poststructuralism L.Levin Afterword B.Hodgdon Index