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Call for Papers Documenta (Volume 43, Issue 1, 2025) | Milo Rau - Comparative Lenses
Posted by Documenta on 2024-07-15
Guest editor: Lily Climenhaga, lily.climenhaga@ugent.be In 2009, Swiss-German theatre-maker Milo Rau stormed onto Western European mainstages with the premiere of the first production of his then recently founded production company, the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM), The Last Days of the Ceausescus. Since 2009, Rau has gained international prominence for his brand of [...]
Read MoreCall for Papers Documenta (Volume 42, Issue 2, 2024 and Volume 43, Issue 2, 2024) - Toneelstof V & VI
Posted by Posted by Steff Nellis on 2024-01-16 © "Infini 1-15", Jozef Wouters/Decoratelier (Photo: Phile Deprez) on 2024-01-16
CFP Documenta – Toneelstof V & VIIssue editor: Jasper Delbecke (LUCA School of Arts/Ghent University) Between 2007 and 2010, Toneelstof appeared in Documenta: tijdschrift voor theater. This four-part series was the result of a three-year heritage project initiated by Thersites (Association of Flemish Theatre Critics). Toneelstof emerged as ‘the result of [...]
Read MoreVolume 41 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Theater and Law
This special issue of Documenta delves into the reciprocal relationship between ‘Theater and Law,’ establishing an interdisciplinary space for justice that transcends conventional legal boundaries. In contrast to traditional, rigid judicial frameworks that revolve around accusing and sentencing clearly defined defendants, the performing and visual arts provide a reflective environment for reevaluating legal cases and systems. Each article in this issue aspires to reconceptualize established legal perspectives by presenting artistically inspired alternatives. The contributions illustrate how the performing and visual arts foster empathetic and progressive alternatives to the judicial process, both within and beyond traditional court settings.
Editors: Steff Nellis (Guest Editor)
Articles
On Theater, Law, and Justice (Not Necessarily in That Order)
Steff Nellis
2023-12-20 Volume 41 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Theater and Law • 3-25
The Irruption of Real Violence: The Open Dramaturgy of Theatrical Mock Trials and Milo Rau’s The Moscow Trials
Kfir Lapid-Mashall
2023-12-20 Volume 41 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Theater and Law • 29-51
(P(Re))Forming Justice: Milo Rau’s Trials and Tribunals
Lily Climenhaga
2023-12-20 Volume 41 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Theater and Law • 53-83
Empathy at the Crossroads
Shlomit Cohen-Skali
2023-12-20 Volume 41 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Theater and Law • 85-110
Legitimately Incongruous: Exploring Artistic and Legal Interplays in A Game of War (2021)
Sixtine Bérard
2023-12-20 Volume 41 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Theater and Law • 113-137
The Resilience of Borders: Law and Migration in Contemporary Performances
Klaas Tindemans
2023-12-20 Volume 41 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Theater and Law • 139-183
Creating Spaces in Law as a Practice of Theatrical Jurisprudence
Marett Leiboff
2023-12-20 Volume 41 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Theater and Law • 187-205
The Judiciary’s Theatrical Achilles’ Heel: Acting the Fool (RAF members) compared to Acting in Bad Faith (Alex Jones)
Frans-Willem Korsten
2023-12-20 Volume 41 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Theater and Law • 207-227
Performing Institutions: Trials as Part of the Canon of Theatrical Traditions
Rocío Zamora-Sauma
2023-12-20 Volume 41 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Theater and Law • 229-253
Backstage Performances of Parliamentary Scrutiny, or Coming Together in Parliamentary Committee Rooms
Kate Seear and Sean Mulcahy
2023-12-20 Volume 41 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Theater and Law • 255-281
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Documenta (ISSN 0771-8640) is an important forum for the study of theater in the Low Countries. It is a journal that accommodates in-depth, scholarly contributions on all aspects of theater, as well as essays and critical reflections. Although the main proportion of articles in Documenta focuses on theater and performance, contributions relating to music, film and New Media are also considered, as far as they relate to the performing arts.
The journal was founded in 1983 by Jozef De Vos in the bosom of the Ghent Documentation Center for Dramatic Art. Since 2015, Documenta has been published by S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts & Media) of the Department of Theater Studies at Ghent University. The editorial board is composed of theater scholars from various universities and colleges. Chief editors are Christel Stalpaert and Bram Van Oostveldt.