This paperback, now with a new Preface, identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, helping to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This new approach includes interviewswith leading practitioners of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice. JOSEPHINE MACHON is Co-editor of 'Performance and Technology: Practices ofVirtual Embodiment and Interactivity' (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006; 2011), 'Sensualities/Textualities & Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Co-editor of 'The Palgrave Studies inPerformance and Technology' series. She is a Lecturer in Theatre at Brunel University, UK. Amongst her practice-based projects, Josephine is currently exploring performance as a medium for research into human relationships with the environment. INDICE: Contents - List of Illustrations - Preface to the Paperback Edition - Acknowledgements - Notes on Interview Contributors - Introduction: Redefining Visceral Performance - PART I - Defining (Syn)aesthetics - Connecting Theories - (Syn)aesthetics in Practice - PART II - Introduction: A (Syn)aesthetic Exchange - Felix Barrett & Maxine Doyle of Punchdrunk: In the P'rae-sens' of Body and Space: The (Syn)aesthetics of Site-Sympathetic Work - Lizzie Clachan &David Rosenberg of Shunt Theatre Collective: A Door into Another World: The Audience and Hybridity - Akram Khan: The Mathematics of Sensation: The Body as Site/Sight/Cite and Source - Marisa Carnesky: Trapping the Audience in the Fantasy: Instinct, the Body and the Magic of the Experiential - Naomi Wallace & Kwame Kwei-Armah: Desire, the Body and Transgressive Acts of Playwriting: On Writing and Directing 'Things of Dry Hours - 'Linda Bassett: Bypassing the Logical: Performing Churchill's 'Far Away' - Jo McInnes: A Text That Demands to be Played With: Performing Kane's '4.48 Psychosis' - Graeae's Jenny Sealey & Playwright Glyn Cannon: Seeing Words and (Dis)comfort Zones: The Fusion of Bodies,Text and Technology in 'On Blindness' - Sara Giddens & Simon Jones of Bodies In Flight: The In-betweens, Where Flesh Utters and Words Move: On Flesh, Text,Space and Technologies - Leslie Hill & Helen Paris of Curious: Embodied Intimacies: On (the) Scent, Memory and the Visceral-Virtual - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-33690-2
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 252
- Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés