Focusing on staging processes in contemporary dance and art performance creates new opportunities to study creative participation and co-authorship. To gain these new insights, Iris Julian analyses experimental projects initiated by two groups and a single choreographer: Collect-if by Collect-if, Deufert + Plischke and Xavier Le Roy. By exploring nuances of staging work, the concept of singular plural became the analytical guideline and resulted into three research perspectives: theatre studies, sociology and ontological reading (Jean-Luc Nancy, Michaela Ott, Gerald Raunig). This approach makes it possible to look beyond the importance that is often credited to single authorship in the arts.
With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Gerald Siegmund.

Auteur

Iris Julian (formerly Gütler), born in 1975, is a cultural scientist who holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien and was a member of the research group »Mediale Teilhabe« located at the Universität Konstanz, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and the Universität Hamburg. Her research scrutinises collaborative working processes in dance and performance.