War & P.E.A.C.E

M.A. Bleeker, Janez Jansa

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Abstract

WE ARE ALL MARLENE DIETRICH FOR: Performance for Peacekeeping Soldiers and P.E.A.C.E. are two rare examples of works of art that deal with the role of the peacekeeping soldier. They are complex in that they are both highly satirical and deadly serious, and both at the same time. This ambiguity is part of how these works work by means of proposals that are outrageous while simultaneously being direct extrapolations of accepted cultural perceptions, ideologies, and very concrete phenomena. WE ARE ALL MARLENE DIETRICH FOR. Performance for Peacekeeping Soldier does so in a dance performance that creatively explores some of these complexities on stage. P.E.A.C.E. on the other hand may be called an example of what Thompson and Sholette (2004) have termed interventionist art. Our text reflects on these two projects and explores the proposals presented by them.

Keywords: Peacekeeping soldier, interventionist art, role models, entertainment, hired bodies, diplomacy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationChoreographies of 21st Century Wars
EditorsGay Morris, Jens Giersdorf
Place of PublicationOxford and New York
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages223-240
ISBN (Print)978-0-19-020167-8
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Publication series

NameOxford Studies in Dance Theory
PublisherOxford University Press

Keywords

  • Peacekeeping soldiers
  • interventionist art
  • role models
  • entertainment
  • hired bodies
  • diplomacy

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