Event-Space

<p>As the symbolists constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political 'event' the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event but an event in and of itself. </p><p>Event-Space radically re-evaluates the avant garde's championing of nonrepresentational spaces drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of 'performative architecture'.</p><p>'Event' was of immense significance to modernism's revolutionary agenda resisting realism and naturalism - and simultaneously the monumentality of architecture itself. <i>Event-Space</i> analyzes a number of spatiotemporal models central to that revolution both illuminating the history of avant-garde performance and inspiring contemporary approaches to performance space.</p>