Breathtaking performance: 'A room with no air's' exhaustive aesthetics of holocaust memory

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Title Breathtaking performance: 'A room with no air's' exhaustive aesthetics of holocaust memory
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Abstract/Description What is the place of Jewish Holocaust memory in the context of a decolonising Australia? Can Holocaust memory model a possibility of responsiveness to the broader memory cultures in which it occurs? This article begins with the call for a 'radical democratic politics' of memory offered by Michael Rothberg, which 'does not entail a removal of Holocaust memory from the public sphere, but rather a decentering of its abstract, reified form' (2011: 540). In a discussion of the Australian contemporary performance work 'a room with no air', which premiered at Sydney's Performance Space in 2001, this article contemplates the archive of recent Australian theatre history to explore how questions of collective responsibility might be modelled by a re-staging of German- Jewish intergenerational legacies.
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Source Australasian Drama Studies, ADSA, VIC
Issue 74
Page 129-160
Date Issued April 2019
Language English
ISSN 0810-4123
Citation Bryoni Trezise, Breathtaking performance: 'A room with no air's' exhaustive aesthetics of holocaust memory, Australasian Drama Studies, 74, April 2019, 129-160
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Resource Identifier 68802