THE BIRTH OF THE MILE-LONG OPERA OUT OF THE EVENTS OF NEW YORK CITY PARK AT 7 O’CLOCK: PERFORMATIVITY OF PERFORMATIVITIES OR A MULTIPERFORMATIVITY?

• Authors: Mitášová Monika
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper focuses on The Mile-Long Opera, created by architect Elizabeth Diller and composer David Lang with contributions from other artists. This “subversive” open-air opera is interpreted especially from an architectural perspective in relation to its performance venue – the High Line rail trail on Manhattan’s West Side – from the point of view of an inter-categorial work crossing multiple genres, introducing its various components into new relationships and contexts in terms of both staging and multi-performativity. Musicianship alludes not only to civic music-making, but also to the heteronomous infected process of autonomization, and citizenship is a heteronomization arising from the permanent process of the differing of artistic autonomy. The impacts of this include those on terminology – and, for example, that traditional theatrological and musicological terminology is changing its scope and content, triggering the need for a re-thinking.

Keywords

EN

PERFORMATIVITY; PERFORMATIVE OPERA; HYPERSPACE; NEW YORK; MILE-LONG OPERA

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 266 – 286

Contributors

author

Mitášová Monika

• Vysoká škola výtvarných umení v Bratislave, Katedra teórie a dejín umenia, Hviezdoslavovo námestie 18, 814 37 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9566-3197

Identifiers

DOI

10.31577/sd-2024-0021