Much has been said regarding the global flows of information that are characteristic of modernity; it has been frequently stressed that these conduits are so deeply embedded that local or national environments may be imagined as having a global span. Thus, while we are now well aware that the imagination is integral to global cultural processes, questions still arise about how the imagination of life with a global span is made possible at the level of everyday social practices. This book examines performative interventions that can generate a re-imagining of local publics — both spatially grounded and mediatized — and help to renegotiate the connection between the local and the global. After the ‘performative turn’ of the 1960s, it has been understood that shared experience of performance as event or spectacle can transform interpretations of the global and the local and create new meanings, and this book continues in the direction of this important tradition, while also fully expanding on its consequences.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Global Imaginaries and Performance in Asia
- Chris Hudson and Bart Barendregt
- 2. Globalizing the Imagination
- 3. Weddings, Yoga, Hook-ups
- Performed Identities and Technology in Bali
- 4. Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich and the Ideal of Convenience in Japan
- 5. Unearthing the Past and Re-imagining the Present
- Contemporary Art and Muslim Politics in a Post-9/11 World
- 6. Keeping Communists Alive in Singapore
- 7. Performative Pedagogies
- Lifestyle Experts on Indian Television
- 8. Performing Cities
- The Philippines Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai International Exposition
- 9. Mobile Performance and the In-between
- Yogyakarta Comes to Melbourne
- 10. An Islamist Flash Mob in the Streets of Shah Alam
- Unstable Genres for Precarious Times
- 11. Pure Love?
- Sanitized, Gendered and Multiple Modernities in Chinese Cinemas
- 12. Yogya on Stage
- Index
- List of Figures
- Figure 3.1 Couple in Balinese wedding vestments at Antonio Blanco Museum
- Figure 3.2 Couple in wedding procession
- Figure 3.3 Couple performing Balinese dance
- Figure 3.4 Wedding chapel and flower girls at Blue Point Bay Villas
- Figure 3.5 Couple posing for wedding photo with hotel guests in pool
- Figure 3.6 Wiwaha Chapel at the Nikko Resort
- Figure 3.7 Sumatran ‘ship cloths’ (palapai)
- Figure 5.1 ‘Membuat Obama dan Perdamaian yang dibuat-buat’ (2009) fibreglass and painted becak
- Figure 5.2 A repaired and visibly damaged president posing in front of the PKU Muhammadiyah hospital
- Figure 7.1 Billboard at Star’s Mumbai headquarters
- Figure 7.2 Vikram Chandra and Rajiv Makni, the hosts of Gadget Guru
- Figure 7.3 The Princess of Rampur (centre), assisted by an unnamed cook, shows host Amrita Gandhi how to host a soiree on an episode of Royal Reservation entitled ‘Party Like the Nizams’ (nizam is a title for sovereigns of Indian states).
- Figure 7.4 Anchor Ambika Anand and fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee (centre) meet the bride, groom and their respective mothers in Band Baajaa Bride.
- Figure 7.5 Pawan Sinha, resident astrologer on Astro Uncle, uses astrology to give psychological counselling for irritable children. The text in the panel reads: ‘The combination of Saturn-Mars, Mars-Rahu, Rahu-Saturn, in one’s planetary alignment makes
- Figure 7.6 In this episode of Live Vaastu, its star, Dr. Chawla, offers advice on what colours improve the energy of a house. In this clip (solution Number 5), the audience is told to avoid the colours blue or black.
- Figure 7.7 A segment of Live Vaastu where Dr. Chawla (compass in hand) visits an audience member’s house to do a vaastu reading.
- Figure 7.8 ‘Wisdom comes with responsibility’: Pragya TV website, featuring five categories of life-advice videos, including beauty, relationships, good living, food (smart kitchen) and living wisely
- Figure 8.1 Philippines Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010
- Figure 8.2 Panel with map of the Philippines
- Figure 8.3 Band playing bamboo instruments
- Figure 8.4 Handicrafts zone at the Philippines Pavilion
- Figure 9.1 Grobak in Swanston St. Melbourne
- Figure 9.2 Grobak by night on the banks of the Yarra River
- Figure 9.3 Grobak with images from Yogykarta
- Figure 9.4 Grobak with skype technology
- Figure 10.1 Al Farabi Band
- Figure 10.2 Ustaz Nazmi Abd Karim driving through spectators
- Figure 10.3 Al Farabi Band’s advertisement for a mobile stage truck
- Figure 10.4 Islamic Rock act Al Farabi Band being filmed during the flash mob while performing to the backdrop of the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz State Mosque
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