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Interfaces of Performance
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ABSTRACT
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. As technologies become increasingly integrated into theatre and performance, Interfaces of Performance revisits key elements of performance practice in order to investigate emergent paradigms. To do this five concepts integral to the core of all performance are foregrounded, namely environments, bodies, audiences, politics of practice and affect. The thematic structure of the volume has been designed to extend current discourse in the field that is often led by formalist analysis focusing on technology per se. The proposed approach intends to unpack conceptual elements of performance practice, investigating the strategic use of a diverse spectrum of technologies as a means to artistic ends. The focus is on the ideas, objectives and concerns of the artists who integrate technologies into their work. In so doing, these inquisitive practitioners research new dramaturgies and methodologies in order to create innovative experiences for, and encounters with, their audiences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part 1 Environments
chapter 2|16 pages
Environments, Interactions and Beings: The Ecology of Performativity and Technics
chapter 3|12 pages
Blurring the Boundaries: Performance, Technology and the Artificial Sublime – An Interview with Ruth Gibson
part |2 pages
Part 2 Bodies
part |2 pages
Part 3 Audiences
chapter 6|14 pages
Reactivation: Performance, Mediatization and the Present Moment
chapter 7|12 pages
Moving Audiences: Strategies of Exposure in the Work of Gob Squad
chapter 8|12 pages
How to Kidnap your Audiences: An Interview with Matt Adams from Blast Theory
part |2 pages
Part 4 Politics
chapter 9|20 pages
The Tendency to ‘Trans-’: The Political Aesthetics of the Biogrammatic Zone
chapter 10|12 pages
Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Ethno-Techno Politics
chapter 11|14 pages
Performative Science in an Age of Specialization: The Case of Critical Art Ensemble
part |2 pages
Part 5 Affect