Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Matt DaviesORCiD
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a book chapter that has been published in its final definitive form by Oxford University Press, 2020.
For re-use rights please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
The Other City is a downloadable audio play performed by the listener in an urban setting. Its performance opens an opportunity to explore perceptions of the city through comparisons with urban experiences in Rio de Janeiro. The cities are thus encountered as aesthetic subjects, or subjects who ‘articulate and mobilize thinking’ (Shapiro 2013:11). This chapter begins with an overview of the field of aesthetic research into cities and how methods that have emerged in the performance-as-research paradigm have helped illuminate urbanism and critique received wisdom about contemporary urbanisation. It goes on to explain The Other City and how the play mobilises and challenges notions of performance as research. By examining how the performance of the everyday became a political gesture in Rio in preparation for the Olympics, it shows how politics can be inaugurated in the everyday. It concludes more cautiously, however, insisting that performance cannot provide political guarantees.
Author(s): Davies M
Editor(s): Rai SM; Ghulovic M; Jestrovic S; Saward M
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance
Year: 2020
Pages: 728
Print publication date: 03/08/2021
Acceptance date: 20/11/2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place Published: New York
URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-politics-and-performance-9780190863456?cc=gb&lang=en&
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9780190863456
