YoHa, et al.: Evil Media Distribution Centre (2013)

“Evil Media Distribution Centre is a response to the book Evil Media (2012) by Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey. In that book the authors argue for a broader notion of media and a deeper, more complex understanding of how these grey media influence the way we behave, think and perceive.

‘Grey media’ produce the working environment of administrators, professionals, delivery operatives and arranges the movements and work-arounds of everyone from chief executives to intellectuals or cleaners. They are the background to contemporary society. Using them, getting round their failures, exploiting their specific qualities, forms part of the necessary knowledge of the present day. These things mediate, transform, encode, filter and translate relations. Fuller and Goffey include a broad definition of media to include things like middle management, neurotropic or suppressant drugs that treat the body as an information system, alongside things such as queuing systems or specific algorithms or data–structures.

Assisted by Transmediale, Tom Keene, Anna Blumenkranz and other members of the Open Systems Association, YoHa (Graham Harwood & Matsuko Yokokoji) had invited people to write a text of one hundred words about an object, its genealogy, any key factors that make it amenable to manipulation. This text was then presented together with the object in a cabinet of curiosities that at the same time evoked associations with a distribution centre. A key fact of grey media is its ready quality of dryness, one bordering temptingly on boredom and this is something we asked people to maintain when writing the text.

The project has been installed at Transmediale 2013 in Berlin and The Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam.” (from YoHa’s statement)

Review: Stephen Fortune (2013).

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Hans-Thies Lehmann: Postdramatic Theatre (1999–) [PL, EN, BR-PT, SK, RO]

“This is a study of the new theatre forms, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre.

In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre history, as a response to the emergence of new technologies, and as an historical shift from a text-based culture to a new media age of image and sound.

Engaging with theoreticians of ‘drama’ from Aristotle and Brecht, to Barthes and Schechner, the book analyzes the work of recent experimental theatre practitioners such as Robert Wilson, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Müller, the Wooster Group, Needcompany and Societas Raffaello Sanzio.”

First published as Postdramatisches Theater, Verlag der Autoren, Frankfurt am Main, 1999.

English edition
Translated and with an Introduction by Karen Jürs-Munby
Publisher Routledge, London, 2006
x+214 pages

Reviews: Marvin Carlson (Theatre Research International, 2006), Iva Rosanda-Žigo (Fluminensia, 2006, CR), Denise Varney (Performance Paradigm, 2007), Elinor Fuchs (TDR, 2008), Jeanne Wilcoxon (Theatre Topics, 2008).

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Teatr postdramatyczny (Polish, trans. Dorota Sajewska & Małgorzata Sugiera, 2004, pp 1-99, 41 MB)
Postdramatic Theatre (English, trans. Karen Jürs-Munby, 2006)
Teatro pós-dramático (BR-Portuguese, trans. Pedro Süssekind, 2007, 38 MB, via)
Postdramatické divadlo (Slovak, trans. Anna Grusková & Elena Diamantová, 2007, 16 MB, via)
Teatrul postdramatic (Romanian, trans. Victor Scoradeţ, 2009)

Charles Jencks, Karl Kropf (eds.): Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture (1997)

A survey of 120 texts on architecture from the late 1950s up to the mid-1990s, presented in excerpts organised into five sections.

Publisher Academy Editions, Chichester, UK, 1997
ISBN 0471976873
312 pages
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See also Ulrich Conrads (ed.), Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture, 1964/1970.