The Concept of the New

Which concepts of the new can be identified within contemporary performing arts? Livia Andrea Piazza addresses art production in neoliberal capitalism as well as its discourse. She builds a reconceptualization of the new outside the framework of innovation, in order to rethink the relationship between performance and politics at large. Combining theoretical research based on sociology, economics, art theory, and philosophy with a field study in the scene of European contemporary theater and dance, she offers a working definition of the new as a ground to envision the poetics and politics of the new as well as concrete actions to trigger change in the world of performing arts.