This innovative collection, with essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars, reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting exchange between text, body and technology--Provided by publisher. This innovative collection, with essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars, reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting exchange between text, body and technology.
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MOJISOLA ADEBAYO, actor, writer, teacher, director and producer RIC ALLSOPP, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Visiting Professor, Centre for Dance Education (HZT), University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany PHIL ELLIS, Lecturer in Media Arts and Television Arts, University of Plymouth, UK RACHEL FENSHAM, Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, University of Surrey, UK, and Honorary Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia RUSSELL FRAMPTON, Associate Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, University of Plymouth, UK JOHN FREEMAN, Senior Lecturer in Modern Drama Studies, Brunel University, West London, UK SARA GIDDENS, choreographer and co-director of Bodies in Flight SIMON JONES, writer, scholar and co-director of Bodies in Flight ROBERTA MOCK, Reader in Performance, University of Plymouth, UK STELARC, Chair in Performance Art, Brunel University, West London, UK, and Senior Research Fellow, MARCS Labs, University of Western Sydney, Australia DAWN STOPPIELLO, choreographer and co-founder of Troika Ranch OLU TAIWO, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Art, University of Winchester, UK FIONA TEMPLETON, writer, performer, and director of performance group The Relationship TRACEY WARR, Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory, Oxford Brookes University, UK RUTH WAY, Senior Lecturer and Head of Theatre and Performance, University of Plymouth, UK PAUL WOODWARD, Senior Lecturer in Drama& Physical Theatre, St.Mary's University College, UK
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Foreword Ric Allsopp |
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Notes on the Editors |
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Notes on the Contributors |
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Introduction |
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Part 1 Writing and Technologies---New Epistemologies |
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Digital Practices: New Writings of the Body |
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9 | (14) |
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23 | (15) |
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De-Second-Naturing: Word Unbecoming Flesh in the Work of Bodies in Flight |
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38 | (12) |
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The Body of the Text: The Uses of the `Screen Page' in New Media |
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50 | (15) |
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Part 2 The Body Writes Itself |
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65 | (52) |
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Prosthetic Head: Ideas and Anecdotes on the Seductiveness of Embodied Conversational Agents |
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67 | (12) |
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Performative (Dis)Closures---Sensual Readings and Writings of the Positive Body |
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79 | (13) |
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The Supernatural Embodied Text: Creating Moj of the Antarctic with the Living and the Dead |
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92 | (11) |
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The Physical Journal: The Living Body that Writes and Rewrites Itself |
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103 | (14) |
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Part 3 Performing the Body/Performing the Text... Writing the Body/Writing the Text |
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117 | (58) |
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Socializing the Self: Autoethnographical Performance and the Social Signature |
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119 | (13) |
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La Fura dels Baus's XXX: Deviant Textualities and The Formless |
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132 | (14) |
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Bodies in Suspension: The Aesthetics of Doubt in Honour Bound |
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146 | (16) |
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Translation: Words <->Movement<-> Bits |
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162 | (13) |
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Part 4 Corporeal Intertextualities---Body/Text/Technologies |
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175 | (42) |
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Speaking for Performance/Writing with the Voice |
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177 | (10) |
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Authenticity and Perception in the Making of Utah Sunshine: A Dance Theatre/Arts Film |
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187 | (14) |
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(Syn)aesthetic Writings: Caryl Churchill's Sensual Textualities and the Rebirth of Text |
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201 | (16) |
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Index |
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MOJISOLA ADEBAYO, actor, writer, teacher, director and producer RIC ALLSOPP, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Visiting Professor, Centre for Dance Education (HZT), University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany PHIL ELLIS, Lecturer in Media Arts and Television Arts, University of Plymouth, UK RACHEL FENSHAM, Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, University of Surrey, UK, and Honorary Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia RUSSELL FRAMPTON, Associate Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, University of Plymouth, UK JOHN FREEMAN, Senior Lecturer in Modern Drama Studies, Brunel University, West London, UK SARA GIDDENS, choreographer and co-director of Bodies in Flight SIMON JONES, writer, scholar and co-director of Bodies in Flight ROBERTA MOCK, Reader in Performance, University of Plymouth, UK
STELARC, Chair in Performance Art, Brunel University, West London, UK, and Senior Research Fellow, MARCS Labs, University of Western Sydney, Australia DAWN STOPPIELLO, choreographer and co-founder of Troika Ranch OLU TAIWO, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Art, University of Winchester, UK FIONA TEMPLETON, writer, performer, and director of performance group The Relationship TRACEY WARR, Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory, Oxford Brookes University, UK RUTH WAY, Senior Lecturer and Head of Theatre and Performance, University of Plymouth, UK PAUL WOODWARD, Senior Lecturer in Drama& Physical Theatre, St.Mary's University College, UK