Identity, Performance and Technology
Practices of Empowerment, Embodiment and Technicity
Published on 1. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXI, 234 pages
978-1-349-33510-7 (ISBN)
Description
This project investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance, opening up a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices and considering how identity is formed, de-formed, blurred and celebrated within diverse approaches to technological performance practice.
Reviews / Votes
'...this is an important addition to the material on performance and technology and its impact on embodied performance practices. In its ambition and scope this volume will be of interest to those concerned with somatic practice and the range of emergent thinking and multiple impacts of digital technologies deployed in contemporary performance.' - Scott Palmer, New Theatre Quarterly
'...a solid collection of interesting and insightful case studies of performance events and practices incorporating media technologies.' - David Z. Saltz, Theatre Journal
'This book has something to offer those interested in the confluence of performance and technology from practitioners to scholars of all levels, as well as those outside the academy with an active interest in this type of performance work.' - Sophie Lally, Contemporary Theatre Review
More details
Series
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XXI, 234 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
332 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-33510-7 (9781349335107)
DOI
10.1057/9781137284440
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
S. Broadhurst | J. Machon
Identity, Performance and Technology
Practices of Empowerment, Embodiment and Technicity
Book
10/2012
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
GHISLAINE BODDINGTON Independent scholar, UK
ANDREW BUCKSBARG Independent scholar, UK
SELENE CARTER Lecturer in Contemporary Dance, Indiana University, USA
CHARLIE GERE Head of Department and Reader in New Media Research, Lancaster University, UK
LESLIE HILL Associate Professor of Performance Making, Stanford University, USA
CARISSA HOPE-LYNCH Literary Officer with Graeae Theatre Company, UK
ROBERTA MOCK Professor of Performance Studies and Director of the Arts & Humanities Doctoral Training Centre, Plymouth University, UK
HELEN PARIS Professor of Drama, Stanford University, USA
SITA POPAT Lecturer of Dance, Theatre and Performance, University of Leeds, UK
KELLY PREECE Research Associate in Dance, University of Leeds, UK
THECLA SCHIPHORST Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada
FRANZISKA SCHROEDER Lecturer/RCUK Fellow, School of Creative Arts, Queen's University Belfast, UK
HELLEN SKY Post Graduate Candidate, SIAL RMIT, Australia
OLU TAIWO Senior Lecturer, University of Winchester, UK
PAUL WOODWARD Independent scholar, UK
Content
List of Illustrations Foreword; T.Schiphorst Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Broadhurst & J.Machon PART I: IDENTITIES - NEW EPISTEMOLOGIES AND ONTOLOGIES Improvising Artists, Embodied Technology and Emergent Techniques; A.Bucksbarg & S.Carter Shifting Listening Identities - Towards a Fluidity of Form in Digital Music; F.Schroeder Art as Eudaimonia: Embodied Identities and the Return Beat; O.Taiwo Graeae: An Aesthetic of Access - (De)cluttering the Clutter; J.Sealey & C.Hope Lynch PART II: (EX)POSING IDENTITY - EMBODIED ART PRACTICES Woven Bodies, Woven Cultures; G.Boddington Pina; S.Broadhurst Experiential Identities in the Work of Marisa Carnesky; J.Machon Lynn Hershman and the Creation of Multiple Robertas; R.Mock PART III: EMPOWERMENT/DISEMPOWERMENT IN DIGITAL PERFORMANCE (be)longing: A Case Study of Recording and Representation; L.Hill Pluralistic Presence: Practising Embodiment with My Avatar; S.Popat & K.Preece The Silent Screen/Scream: A Sensual Exploration of the Interior/Exterior Screens of the (Dis)closing Subject; P.Woodward PART IV: BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES: THE DELIMITED SELF Below the Surface; H.Paris 'Stelarc's Mystical Body'; C.Gere Borderless Bodies - The Cellulardata Body; H.Sky Index