£60.00
Publication Date:
01 Nov 2009
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Imprint:
Ashgate Publishing
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Description
This collection of essays and interviews investigates current practices that expand our understanding and experience of performance through the use of state-of-the-art technologies. It brings together leading practitioners, writers and curators who explore the intersections between theatre, performance and digital technologies, challenging expectations and furthering discourse across the disciplines.
Contents
Contents: Introduction, Maria Chatzichristodoulou and Rachel Zerihan; Creative media: performance, invention, critique, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska; Part 1 Environments: Environments, interactions and beings: the ecology of performativity and technics, Chris Salter; Blurring the boundaries: performance, technology and the artificial sublime - an interview with Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli, igloo, Janis Jefferies. Part 2 Bodies: Orlan-vertigo/self-touching-you, Simon Donger; The path to silence, Allucquere Rosanne Stone. Part 3 Audiences: Reactivation: performance, mediatization, and the present moment, Philip Auslander; Moving audiences: strategies of exposure in the work of Gob Squad, Patrick Primavesi; How to kidnap your audiences: an interview with Matt Adams from Blast Theory, Maria Chatzichristodoulou. Part 4 Politics: The tendency to 'trans-': the political aesthetics of the biogrammatic zone, Sher Doruff; Guillermo GA(3)mez-PeA+/-a: ethno-techno politics, Guillermo GA(3)mez PeA+/-a and Lorena Rivero de Beer; Performative science in an age of specialization: the case of critical art ensemble, Nicola Triscott. Part 5 Affect: Affective connection, Bojana Kunst; Love at first byte, Melinda Rackham; Conclusion, Janis Jefferies; Bibliography; Index.
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