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Re-Enchanting The Spectacle, Shayna Cohn
Re-Enchanting The Spectacle, Shayna Cohn
Graduate School of Art Theses
“Re-Enchanting the Spectacle” explores guiding notions and central themes within the art practice of Shayna Cohn. Cohn’s installation spaces and sculptures within them, evoke a type of fabricated aura and melodramatic attitude of entertainment sites. By isolating the affect outside of the original environment, Cohn references the perceptual duality of entertainment sites within this “post-sacred” era. Entertainment venues become sites of potential transcendence, yet are also inextricably tied to their automated mechanization. Drawing on the Peter Brooks’ analysis of the historical and poetic relationship between melodrama and the sacred, Cohn argues that contemporary notions of melodrama can be found within …
The Choral Embodiment Of Oedipus: Sacramental Performance In Oedipus At Colonus And Gospel At Colonus, Thomas William Biegler
The Choral Embodiment Of Oedipus: Sacramental Performance In Oedipus At Colonus And Gospel At Colonus, Thomas William Biegler
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In researching the original performances of Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus, contemporary composer Lee Breuer concluded that Ancient Greek productions were “close to rock concerts” full with “responses from the audience like choral or choir responses in the church.” What Breuer recognized was that Sophoclean performances were lively and engaging to their audiences, inviting them to participate and help tell the story being dramatized on stage. What he also recognized was the sacramental power of performance in Ancient Greek tragedies, when a spirit is gifted from performer to viewer. This spirit is passed through the rhythm and meter of the language, …