Hostname: page-component-77f85d65b8-45ctf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-04-15T03:58:29.768Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Sudden Rise

A Posthuman Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2025

Christina Schmutz
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Through its arrangement of projections, figures, light, colors, sound, and spoken text, Sudden Rise (2019) by Wu Tsang and the collective Moved by the Motion creates a posthuman world, transgressing the boundaries of representation and presence to rethink our civilization in relation to the rest of nature.

Information

Type
Article
Information
TDR , Volume 69 , Issue 4 , December 2025 , pp. 65 - 79
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

References

Bennett, Louise. 1966. Jamaica Labrish: Jamaica Dialect Poems. Sangster’s Book Stores.Google Scholar
Blom, Philipp, and Raddatz, Frank M.. 2021. “Tod im Kirschgarten. Auf der Suche nach dem überfälligen Narrativ” (Death in the Cherry Orchard: In search of an overdue narrative). Lettre International 135, 97–105.Google Scholar
Brandstetter, Gabriele. 2015. “Wundertheater. Der Auftritt des Theaters.” In Auftritte. Strategien des In-Erscheinung-Tretens in Künsten und Medien, ed. Matzke, Annemarie, Otto, Ulf , and Roselt, Jens, 17–32. transcript.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Foucault, Michel. 1966. Les mots et les choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines. Bibliothèque des Sciences Humaines.Google Scholar
Hebbel am Ufer (HAU). 2019. “Moved by the Motion (Wu Tsang & boychild, Patrick Belaga, Josh Johnson, Asma Maroof). Sudden Rise.” www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/programm/pdetail/moved-by-the-motion-sudden-rise Google Scholar
Kant, Immanuel. (1781) 1956. Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason). Felix Meiner.Google Scholar
Latour, Bruno. 1999. Politiques de la nature. Comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie. Éditions La Découverte.Google Scholar
Moten, Fred, and Tsang, Wu. 2016. Who Touched Me? If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution. www.are.na/block/6770568 Google Scholar
Moten, Fred, and Tsang, Wu. 2018. “Sudden Rise at a Given Tune.” South Atlantic Quarterly 117, 3:649–52.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-6942207CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Müller-Schöll, Nikolaus. 2016. “Die Fiktion der Kritik.” Theater Heute 11:31.Google Scholar
Richman, Jordan. 2022. “Moved by the Motion: A Portrait of a Roving Band, in Five Acts.” 032c Magazine, 26 January. 032c.com/magazine/moved-by-the-motionGoogle Scholar
Roselt, Jens. 2008. Phänomenologie des Theaters. Wilhelm Fink.10.30965/9783846746158CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ruhsam, Martina. 2021. Moving Matter: Nicht-menschliche Körper in zeitgenössischen Choreografien. transcript.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schmutz, Christina, and Wagner-Lippok, Frithwin. 2023. Veure-hi amb el cos. Perspectives fenomenològiques de l’anàlisi i la pràctica de les realitzacions teatrals (Looking with the body—phenomenological perspectives in analysis and practice of theatre performances). Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona.Google Scholar
Sender, Ron, Fuchs, Shai, and Milo, Ron. 2016. “Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body.” PLoS Biol 14, 8:e1002533. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002533 CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wagner-Lippok, Frithwin. 2024. Affektive Räume der Aufführung bei Jürgen Kruse und Bruno Beltrão. Hildesheim: Universitätsverlag, volume 21 from Medien und Theater.Google Scholar
Wagner-Lippok, Frithwin. 2025. “A Paradigm of a Postsubjective ‘Theatrical Mind’: Wu Tsang and Moved by the Motion’s Sudden Rise .” TDR 69, 4 (T268):80–97.Google Scholar

TDReading

Wagner-Lippok, Frithwin. 2025. “A paradigm of a post-subjective ‘theatrical mind’: Wu Tsang/Moved by the Motion’s Sudden Rise .” TDR 69, 4 (T268):80–97.Google Scholar