This book spotlights art works and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of persons in the ‘female’ category in scenes of love and sexuality. Pursuing the research practice of deep drilling, this study presents various methodologies and research directions to create diverse perspectives on the selected works. This book combines historical outlines based on art history, new methodologies in theatre studies and digressions into sociology. Philosophical readings will complement the resulting multiple perspective, in which figures of thought such as transimmanence, the theory of performativity and body-mind dualism are of specific interest. This research brings to the fore networks of sedimented and entangled histories, an attitude reminiscent of staying with the trouble.This study will be of great interest to scholars and students in dance, dance performance and art performance.
This book spotlights art works and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of persons in the ‘female’ category in scenes of love and sexuality.
Introduction: The Woman Is Present While the Man Is Absent in
Western Art
Chapter
1. The Absent Man: In Depictions of Love and Sexual Desire.
Chapter 2: Love Scenes Unfinished: Opening Up the Established
Absent/ManPresent/Female Divide
Chapter 3: Vested in the Jupiter and Io Narrative: Voices in Visual Culture
Studies, Feminist, and AntiRacist Discourses
Chapter 4: Jupiter and Io Behind the Fourth Wall: A Staging Strategy and an
Analytical Framework in Theatre Studies
Chapter 5: The Audience All Over: Immersive Forms of Theatre: Challenging
the Actor/Spectator Divide
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Prominently Putting Forward the Term Potential
Iris Julian is a cultural scientist who holds a doctorate in philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was a member of the research group 'Media and Participation' based at the University of Konstanz, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Zurich University of the Arts, and the University of Hamburg. Her research scrutinises processes of diversification in dance and art performance, as well as collaborative processes in the arts.