{"product_id":"from-bayreuth-to-burkina-faso-christoph-schlingensiefs-opera-village-africa-as-postcolonial-gesamtkunstwerk-9789462703582","title":"From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso: Christoph Schlingensief's Opera Village Africa as Postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpera Village\u003c\/i\u003e, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner's notion of the \u003ci\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/i\u003e. Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner's introduction of the \u003ci\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/i\u003e in Bayreuth to Schlingensief's attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed \u003ci\u003eOpera Village\u003c\/i\u003e in collaboration with the world-renowned architect Francis Kéré. This final project of Schlingensief is inspired by and illuminates the diverse themes that informed his artistic practice, including coming to terms with the German past, anti-Semitism, critical race theory, and questions of postcolonial (self-)criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Bayreuth to Burkina Faso\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the notion of the postcolonial \u003ci\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/i\u003e to disrupt the Eurocentric perspective on art history, exploring how the socio-political force of a postcolonial \u003ci\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/i\u003e could affect processes of transcultural identity construction. It reveals how Schlingensief translocated the Wagnerian concept to Burkina Faso to address German colonial history and engage with it from the perspective of multidirectional memory cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11251576\"\u003eSarah Hegenbart\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Leuven University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789462703582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9462703582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-ART\"\u003eArt\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-ART015010\"\u003eAfrican\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS014000\"\u003eEurope | Germany\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER011000\"\u003eTheater | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Hegenbart is lecturer in art history at Technical University of Munich and currently acts as a substitute for the professorship of art research with a focus on contemporary arts at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK Braunschweig).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leuven University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44569972998381,"sku":"9789462703582","price":131.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_79609dcd-dfff-4e66-bd37-09ad8536f0d3.jpg?v=1701932023","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/from-bayreuth-to-burkina-faso-christoph-schlingensiefs-opera-village-africa-as-postcolonial-gesamtkunstwerk-9789462703582","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}