ABSTRACT
‘Performativity’ and ‘corporeal literacy’ are the guiding concepts of this portal affording a perspective through dynamic embodiment on intermediality in performance and posing two specific questions. The first question, addressed by Kattenbelt, concerns how intermediality in performance can be understood as a mode of performativity. Kattenbelt proposes that intermediality in performance is very much about staging media and, in consequence, changes the interrelations between their materiality (or ontology), mediality (or functionality) and modes of perception (with respect to medium-specific conventions). These changes are characterised in terms of a refunctioning of the media involved and a resensibilisation of perception. The ‘staging’ process is contextualised within the performative turn in culture and society, which might in part be constructed as a response of the arts to an all-embracing theatricalisation, particularly insofar as the performative turn is understood also as a process of increasing mediatisation.
