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Author : Sofia Pantouvaki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Human beings in art
ISBN : 9004374140
Author : Adele Anderson,Sofia Pantouvaki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848882638
This volume collects research and critical explorations of the performing body by scholars and practitioners in visual and performing arts, textile, fashion and experimental design research, scenography and costume design, dance and performance history. Authors examine performativity of the body, its materiality, immateriality, and virtuality, and investigate experiences of embodiment. They reenvision the body as a site for representation, exploring the absent body in performance and as performance through time and space. Contributors bring a broad variety of contemporary approaches, from live performance to mediated performance, from installation art to performance art, and from experimental fashion to theatre and dance. They discuss issues of process and meaning-making and practices from concept and interpretation to creative production and reception. The volume expands possibilities for the role of the body in performance, while also challenging roles and hierarchies of existing performance practice.
Author : Amelia Jones
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0816627738
"With great originality and scholarship, Amelia Jones maps out an extraordinary history of body art over the last three decades and embeds it in the theoretical terrain of postmoderism. The result is a wonderful and permissive space in which the viewer...can wander"...-Moira Roth, Trefethen professor of art history, Mills College.
Author : Graley Herren
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476620251
Text & Presentation gathers some of the best work presented at the 2014 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore. The subjects explored in this volume range from ancient to contemporary and encompass great cultural and intellectual diversity. The highlight of the conference was a presentation by award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. A transcript of Hwang’s conversation is the lead piece, followed by twelve research papers, one review essay and ten book reviews. This volume accurately represents the diversity of the annual conference, and represents the latest research in the fields of comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis.
Author : Sarah Julius
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030847746
This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death. Focusing specifically on examples of performance art the text analyses the relationship between performance, re-performance and death, comparing the process of re-performance to the process of mourning and arguing that both of these are processes of adaptation and survival. Using a variety of case studies, including performances by Ron Athey, Julie Tolentino, Martin O’Brien, Sheree Rose, Jo Spence and Hannah Wilke, the book explores performances which can be considered acts of re-performance, as well as performances which examine some of the critical concerns of re-performance, including notions of illness, loss and death. By drawing upon both philosophical and performance studies discourses the text takes a novel approach to the relationship between re-performance, mourning and death.
Author : Alex Mermikides
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350022164
Performance and medicine are now converging in unprecedented ways. London's theatres reveal an appetite for medical themes – John Boyega is subjected to medical experiments in Jack Thorne's Woycek, while Royal National Theatre produces a novel musical about cancer. At the same time, performance-makers seek to improve our health, using dance to increase mobility for those living with Parkinson's disease or performance magic as physiotherapy for children with paraplegia. Performance, Medicine and the Human surveys this emerging field, providing case studies based on the author's own experience of devising medical performances in collaboration with cancer patients, biomedical scientists and healthcare educators. Examining contemporary medical performance reveals an ancient preoccupation, evident in the practices of both theatre and healing, with the human. Like medicine, theatre puts the human on display in order to understand and, perhaps, alleviate the suffering inherent to the human condition. Medical practice constitutes a sort of theatre in which doctors, nurses and patients perform their humaneness and humanity. This insight has much to offer at a time when established notions of the human are being radically rethought, partly in response to emerging biomedical knowledge. Performance, Medicine and the Human argues that contemporary medical performance can shed new light on what it means to be human – and what we mean by the human, the humane, humanism and the humanities – at a time when these notions are being fundamentally rethought. Its insights are relevant to scholars in performance studies, the medical humanities, healthcare education and beyond.
Author : Sylwia Dobkowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000519563
This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance. Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre theory and performances. Reconsideration of theories and experiences changes the way we engage with performances, as well as social relations and traditions outside of theatre. Sylwia Dobkowska examines and theorises absence and presence through theatre, performance, and visual arts practices. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, visual art, and philosophy.
Author : Patrick Campbell,Adrian Kear
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 0415212057
This volume maps out the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance in terms of analysing the nature of performance itself and in terms of making sense of specific performance-related activities.
Author : André Lepecki
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819566128
Writing at the dynamic intersection of dance and performance studies.
Author : Bojana Cvejic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137437396
This book illuminates the relationship between philosophy and experimental choreographic practice today in the works of leading European choreographers. A discussion of key issues in contemporary performance from the viewpoint of Deleuze, Spinoza and Bergson is accompanied by intricate analyses of seven groundbreaking dance performances.
Author : Paul Craenen
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789058679741
A revealing study of the physical presence of the musician in musical performance Fingers slipping over guitar strings, the tap of a bow against the body of a cello, a pianist humming along to the music: contemporary composers often work with parasitic, non-conventional sounds such as these. Are they to be perceived as musical elements or do they shift attention to the physical effort of music-making, contact between a body and an instrument? Composer Paul Craenen explores ways in which the musician’s body is revealed in musical performance. He leads us from Cage, Lachenmann, Kagel and their contemporaries to a discussion of how today's generation of young composers is writing a body paradigm into composition itself. Micro-temporal physical gestures and instrumental timbre provide the key to unveiling the physical presence of both a musician and a ‘composing body’. The author's concept of ‘intercorporeality’, along with the idea of an alternating linear and non-linear relationship of the composing body to time, casts new light on the relationship between musicians, composers, and music consumers.
Author : Susan Best
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Body art
ISBN : 1350144177
1. Introduction -- 2. 'Utterly free of human associations': Impersonality in -- late-modern and contemporary art -- 3. Presence and absence: Singularity -- 4. Intimacy with Strangers: The Couple -- 5. Cohesion and Alienation: Collective body -- 6. Conclusion.
Author : Susan Leigh Foster
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415121396
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Fiona Macintosh,Justine McConnell,Stephen Harrison,Claire Kenward
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198804215
Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists with a rich storehouse of themes: this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart its afterlife across a range of diverse performance traditions, with analysis ranging widely across time, place, genre, and academic and creative disciplines.--Publisher description.
Author : Alice Maurice
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452939391
The Cinema and Its Shadow argues that race has defined the cinematic apparatus since the earliest motion pictures, especially at times of technological transition. In particular, this work explores how racial difference became central to the resolving of cinematic problems: the stationary camera, narrative form, realism, the synchronization of image and sound, and, perhaps most fundamentally, the immaterial image—the cinema’s “shadow,” which figures both the material reality of the screen image and its racist past. Discussing early “race subjects,” Alice Maurice demonstrates that these films influenced cinematic narrative in lasting ways by helping to determine the relation between stillness and motion, spectacle and narrative drive. The book examines how motion picture technology related to race, embodiment, and authenticity at specific junctures in cinema’s development, including the advent of narratives, feature films, and sound. In close readings of such films as The Cheat, Shadows, and Hallelujah!, Maurice reveals how the rhetoric of race repeatedly embodies film technology, endowing it with a powerful mix of authenticity and magic. In this way, the racialized subject became the perfect medium for showing off, shoring up, and reintroducing the cinematic apparatus at various points in the history of American film. Moving beyond analyzing race in purely thematic or ideological terms, Maurice traces how it shaped the formal and technological means of the cinema.
