Deck 8: Global and Intercultural Performances

Question 1

________ seeks to create a worldwide network of maximum productivity along the lines of high performance.

A) intercultural performance
B) transculturalism
C) globalization
D) The Olympics

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Applied performance is practiced in which of the following contexts?

A) war zones
B) prisons
C) rural villages
D) assisted living facilities
E) all of the above

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Who does Thomas Friedman cite as instigating the first great era of globalization?

A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Christopher Columbus
D) Gengis Khan

Answer 3

C

Question 4

How does Mark Danner describe terror?

A) "a horrible advertisement"
B) "a terrible ideology"
C) "a frightful irrelevance"
D) "an awful engagement"

Question 5

What did Karlheinz Stockhausen call 'The Greatest Work of Art in the Entire Cosmos'?

A) The Third Reich
B) The Invasion of Iraq
C) The Nuremberg Rallies
D) The 9/11 attacks

Question 6

What does Schechner frame as globalism's 'signature performance'?

A) The Oscars
B) Civil War
C) The US Presidential Elections
D) The Olympics

Question 7

How does Marvin Carlson define Peter Brook's Mahabarata?

A) Intercultural
B) Transcultural
C) Pancultural
D) Multicultural

Question 8

Which of these roles does Suzanne Lacy not explicitly identify as a point on the artist's journey from Private to Public?

A) Experiencer
B) Activist
C) Interpreter
D) Analyst

Question 9

When considering Guernica, what does Schechner see as the outcome of the 'ubiquitous cameras, the narrations and commentaries' that surround world events?

A) Brechtian alienation
B) Borgesian hyperrealism
C) Platonic mimesis
D) Dickian simulacra