The Theatre Historiography Working Group within IFTR/FIRT has developed a diverse and often challenging scholarship on the history of theatre (broadly defined) in the last two decades. Moreover, the essays and books published by members of the group in several languages have contributed to major transformations in the methods and topics of performance history. The working group, besides serving as a transnational community for historical scholarship, has also contributed to revisionist methods in the teaching of theatre history in dozens of countries, particularly during the last decade.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3028315
The monograph explores the dynamics of change in Slovenian theatre of the 20th century in an interdisciplinary way. It is mainly focused on the processes of forming and breaking of artistic and social norms, and on the issue of historical continuity. The monograph presents many topics that have been neglected so far, such as contemporary dance, performance art, amateur theatre, avant-garde experiments, the audience etc. In addition, it also presents a long overdue analysis and contextualisation of numerous phenomena in the theatre after 1970 that have not been thoroughly studied and researched.
COBISS.SI-ID: 255700992
Darja Koter’s monographs (Slovenska glasba 1848-1918: COBISS ID 263983616, and Slovenska glasba 1918-1991) bring together an in-depth comprehensive historical survey of Slovenian music between 1918 and 1991. They present the role of music within the cultural and political histories of Slovenians and its embeddedness in a broader European cultural sphere. They provide study analyses of individual composer bodies of work, composition schools and stylistic movements. In addition, they illuminate the role of institutions, teaching practices and organizations that have co-shaped their development. The interdisciplinary approach provides an insight into Slovenian artistic and cultural historical achievements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
COBISS.SI-ID: 265605888
Nadja Zgonik’s book provides critical monograph studies and re-interpretations of Slovenian modernist painters in the period between 1945 up to the transition into postmodernism. Her studies fill a theoretical gap in this field, and include a wide range of modernist positions ranging from a pro-Western following of popular lyrical abstraction, existentialist figuration, art informel and pop art to regionalist tendencies. Special attention is paid to the intertwinement of various artistic forms.
COBISS.SI-ID: 254685184
This joint monograph by the research group members lists and underlines key shifts and innovations in Slovenian theatre and performing arts since 1990 that have emerged as a result of hybridity processes. The hybrid spaces at the intersections of various arts, media and scientific disciplines are investigated as an open territory of possibilities where the heterogeneous artistic practices enter into unexpected relationships with the existing aesthetic codes, social and cultural-political circumstances and economic interests.
COBISS.SI-ID: 265755136