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Hi.Hopefully all is well!The shorty is a suggestion to start an online conversation group to elaborate questions from theCovid-19 oriented period and Performance Philosophy?eg. Intra-Active Virome?…Continue

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Hello, "We all have the same dream" is my project that aims to create an archive from the dreams of our era and reinterpret Jung's "collective unconscious" concepts with performance and performing…Continue

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"Further Evidence on the Meaning of Musical Performance" Working Paper

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Karolina Nevoina and I are pleased to announce availability of our working paper, "Further Evidence on the Meaning of Musical Performance". Special thanks to Professor Aaron Williamon and the Royal College of Music, Centre for Performance Science.…

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Division of Labor - Denis Beaubois

Posted by Gabrielle Senza on February 23, 2018 at 0:36 0 Comments

I just came across Denis Beaubois, an Australian multidisciplinary artist whose work, Currency - Division of Labor might be of interest to researchers here.

It is a series of video/performance works that use the division of labor model in capitalism as a structural tool for performance.

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The Division of labour work explores…

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Giselle comes to mind, of course, but are there any other performance pieces which highlight death from a broken heart?

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I'm currently researching the medicalization of said condition and hoping to juxtapose it against its Romantic understanding. John Ford's The Broken Heart, and the 1913 silent film Marble Heart have both been brought to my attention, as has Schumann's Requiem Für Mignon (text by Goethe).

And I've yet to read A Single Man but the film seems to suggest that George's fatal heart attack is a product of his broken heart. 

I'm still unsure about these options, however, so if any other ideas come to mind please please pass it along.

In An-sky's The Dybbuk, the male protagonist Khonen dies instantly on hearing that the woman he loves has to marry another man. (He'll later return as a dybbuk to possess her ...)

If you're looking for something concerning a 'broken heart' that itsn't overdetermined by any sexual or romantic relationship, there is always Kafka. Back in the late 80's- early 90's Steven Berkov (or Stephan Birkoff, forgive my poor memory) staged a wonderful adaptation of Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'. The performance suggested that while Gregor Samsa's 'heart/soul' survived the bodily transformation into the bug, what ultimately cut the cord between Gregor and humanity was not the apple thrown by his father (that was merely the mechanical/ medical cause of death) - but the refusal or inability of the younger sister to recognise Gregor anymore. Gregor loses the will to live when he realises his sister's love for him is gone....so, its not implausible to say that Gregor Samsa eventually dies of a 'broken heart' - with all that 'heart' implies - self, ego, core values, species-being, etcetera. What a fucking downer!

  



Mark D Price said:

If you're looking for something concerning a 'broken heart' that itsn't overdetermined by sexual or romantic relationship, there is always Kafka. Back in the late 80's- early 90's Steven Berkov (or Stephan Birkoff, forgive my poor memory) staged a wonderful adaptation of Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'. The performance suggested that while Gregor Samsa's 'heart/soul' survived the bodily transformation into the bug, what ultimately cut the cord between Gregor and humanity was not the apple thrown by his father (that was merely the mechanical/ medical cause of death) - but the refusal or inability of the younger sister to recognise Gregor anymore. Gregor loses the will to live when he realises his sister's love for him is gone....so, its not implausible to say that Gregor Samsa eventually dies of a 'broken heart' - with all that 'heart' implies - self, ego, core values, species-being, etcetera. What a fucking downer!

  

As far as I know, the "broken heart" is often the door which allows illness to take over, by making people giving up. La Boheme is a classical case: guess the idea is that illness has spread due to her being so hurt. 

Mental illness is also a way to "die", like Ophelia or Gretchen in Faust. 

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