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Playing with Knowledge

On Lecture Performances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

Sophie Seita
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Abstract

Seated between art and academia, the lecture performance is a hybrid and playful genre that questions the norms and forms of lectures. Often highly reflexive, discursive, and pedagogical, it draws attention to the structures of how knowledge is produced, distributed, and received. It stages and costumes knowledge; makes it wearable or movable.

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TDR , Volume 66 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 78 - 95
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© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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