
Mapping Intermediality in Performance
Amsterdam University Press
Published on 23. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-90-8964-255-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines afresh the impact upon acting and performance of digital technologies. It is concerned with how digital culture combines the traditional 'liveness' of theatre with media interfaces and internet protocols. The time and space of the 'here and now' are both challenged and adapted, just as barriers between theatre-makers and the 'experiencers' of events are broken down. Today many of us are everyday players performing the interconnectedness of digital culture and a key aim of the book is to unpack the multiple interrelations within the landscape of contemporary performance. Access to a range of 'instances' (The Builders Association, Castellucci, Castorf, Gob Squad, Lepage, Second Life and VJing) is through 'portals' which afford perspectives on the main characteristics of theatre and performance in the digital age.
Reviews / Votes
"Bold, incisive and engaging, Mapping Intermediality in Performance goes further than any book to date in tracing the nuanced interrelationships and metamorphic interplays between digital media and the performance arts. It provides the reader with authoritative overviews of key ideas and performances, opens up fascinating new trajectories of thought, and fuses theory and practice with explosive effect. A magnificent achievement that is likely to set critical agendas in the field for many years to come." - Steve Dixon, Professor of Digital Performance, Brunel University "Reading this book is like surfing the web: it not only maps intermediality in performance - it exemplifies it." - Philip Auslander, Professor, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Illustrations
15 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
468 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8964-255-4 (9789089642554)
DOI
10.5117/9789089642554
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Andy Lavender | Chiel Kattenbelt | Robin Nelson
Mapping Intermediality in Performance
E-Book
10/2025
Routledge
€61.99
Available for download

Andy Lavender | Chiel Kattenbelt | Robin Nelson
Mapping Intermediality in Performance
E-Book
10/2025
Routledge
€61.99
Available for download
Persons
Andy Lavender is Dean of Research and Professor of Contemporary Theatre at The Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London. He is co-convener of the Intermediality in Theatre and Performance working group of the International Federation for Theatre Research, and was formerly co-convener of the New Technologies for Theatre working group of the Theatre and Performance Research Association. Chiel Kattenbelt is Associate Professor in Media Comparison and Intermediality at Utrecht University. He teaches in the BA program Theatre, Film and Television Studies, in the MA programs Theatre Studies and New Media and Digital Culture and in the Research MA program Media and Performance Studies. Sarah Bay-Cheng is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre at the University at Buffalo, where she teaches performance theory, avant-garde theatre and film, and intermedial performance.
Content
Contents - 6 How to Approach This Book - 10 Introduction: Prospective Mapping and Network of Terms - 14 Portal: Performativity and Corporeal Literacy - 28 Node: Modes of Experience - 46 Instances - 50 Portal: Time and Space - 84 Node: Dimensions - 98 Instances - 102 Portal: Digital Culture and Posthumanism - 124 Node: Actuality-Virtuality - 142 Instances - 144 Portal: Networking - 172 Node: Inter-relations - 186 Instances - 192 Portal: Pedagogic Praxis - 218 Retrospection: The Pre- and Proto-digital - 238 Notes - 260 Cited Works - 268 Contributors - 284 Index - 294