Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance -

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Résumé :
Consisting of critical analyses, theoretical provocations and practical reflections by leading scholars/practitioners from the fields of performance studies, live art and creative technology, these essays examine the rise of intimate performance works and question the socio-historical contexts provoking those aesthetic and affective developments.

Biographie:
GARY ANDERSON Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK SANDY BALDWIN Associate Professor of English, West Virginia University, USA ANGELA BARTRAM Senior Lecturer, University of Lincoln, UK JOANNES BIRRINGER Professor of Performance Technologies, School of Arts, Brunel University, UK JESS DOBKIN Fellow, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, Canada ANNDA DUMUTRIU Visiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence with the Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK JANUES JEFFERIES Professor of Visual Arts and Research, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK DOMINIC JOHNSON Lecturer, Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK) SIMON JONES Professor of Performance, University of Bristol, UK JOE KELLEHER Professor of Theatre and Performance, Roehampton University, UK BRANISLAVA KUBUROVIC independent researcher, UK ERIN MANNING University Research Chair in Relational Art and Philosophy, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Canada ELENA PAPADAKI independent researcher, UK PAUL SERMON Professor of Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK LENA SIMIC Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK ATAU TANAKA Professor at Goldsmiths Digital Studios, University of London, UK TRACEY WARR Lecturer in Art Theory, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Sommaire:
List of Illustrations Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: M.Chatzichristodoulou & R.Zerihan PART I: ETHICAL READINGS OF POLITICAL INTIMACIES The Body in Your Lap; T.Warr Not Citizens But Persons: The Ethics in Action of Performance's Intimate Work; S.Jones Collapsing Alibis; B.Kuburovic PART II: FAMILIAR INTIMACIES: BODILY FUIDS AND MICROBIOLOGY The Hazardous Conversation: The Practice of Intimacy in Performance at the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home; G.Anderson & L.Simic , with Neal, Gabriel and Sid Mother's Milk: The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar and Other Intimate Performance Works; J.Dobkin The Normal Flora Project: Intimate Revelations in Art and Science; A.Dumitriu PART III: ABUSE, PERVERSION AND OBSCENITY: KNOTTY INTIMACIES IN CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE PRACTICES Ecstatic Intervals: Performance in a Continuum of Intimacy; D.Johnson Between Bodies: An Artist's Account of the Oral Connection Between Human and Dog; A.Bartram Intimate Pervy Avatars; S.Baldwin PART IV: VISCERAL TECHNOLOGIES: FROM MYSPACE TO MY BODY Intimare; E.Manning Bodies of Colour/Media Skins; J.Birringer BioMuse to Bondage: Corporeal Interaction in Performance and Exhibition; A.Tanaka PART V: AN INTIMATE DISTANCE APART (Dis)Embodiment; P.Sermon Katie Mitchell: Intimate Technologies in Multimedia Performance; J.Jefferies & E.Papadaki Intimacy, Delicacy and Indifference: Ane Lan's Migrating Birds; J.Kelleher A Discussion on the Subject of Intimacy in Performance, and an Afterword; M.Chatzichristodoulou & R.Zerihan Bibliography Index