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In this in-depth analysis of artistic and academic lectures and performances, Lucia Rainer features an innovative conceptual and methodological tool that augments Goffman´s Frame Analysis with a praxeological perspective. This way, she gives profound insight into how knowledge - as a practice and a concept - is associated with clarity rather than truth. Based on four case studies - including John Cage´s unpublished and unabridged audio recording of Lecture on Nothing - the study explores how the concept of lecture performances, which adheres to two frames that never entirely blend, provides a space to (re-)negotiate the artistic-academic relationship.

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"Rainer is among the first to address lecture performances in an in-depth study." www.sehepunkte.de, 18/5 (2018), Anja Foerschner Besprochen in: [rezens.tfm], 15.05.2018, Marcel Behn

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Lucia Rainer (Prof. Dr.) teaches at Medical School Hamburg. As a performer and performance studies theorist her interests evolve around the concept of lecture performances and notions of interdisciplinary research and performative writing.

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