Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-96159-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience. The status and significance of the live in performance has become contested: perceived as variously as a marker of ontological difference, a promotional slogan, or a mystical evocation of cultural value. Moving beyond debates about the relationship between the live and the mediated, this collection considers what we can know and say about liveness in terms of processes of experiencing and processes of making. Drawing together contributions from theatre, music, dance, and performance art, it takes an interdisciplinary approach in asking not what liveness is, but how it matters and to whom.

The book invites readers to consider how liveness is produced through processes of audiencing - as spectators bring qualities of (a)liveness into being through the nature of their attention - and how it becomes materialized in acts of performance, acts of making, acts of archiving, and acts of remembering. Theoretical chapters and practice-based reflections explore liveness, eventness and nowness as key concepts in a range of topics such as affect, documentation, embodiment, fandom, and temporality, showing how the relationship between audience and event is rarely singular and more often malleable and multiple. With its focus on experiencing liveness, this collection will be of interest to disciplines including performance, audience and cultural studies, visual arts, cinema, and sound technologies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reason, Matthew

Lindelof, Anja Mølle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction: Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance

Matthew Reason and Anja Mølle Lindelof

Part 1: Audiencing

Section Introduction: Matthew Reason and Anja Mølle Lindelof

Chapters

- Coming (a)live: A Prolegomenon to any Future Research on ‘Liveness’

Martin Barker

- Orange Dogs and Memory Responses: Creativity in Spectating and Remembering

Katja Hilevaara

- Fandom, Liveness and Technology at Tori Amos Music Concerts: Examining the Movement of Meaning within Social Media Use

Lucy Bennett

- Social and Online Experiences: Shaping Live Listening Expectation in Classical Music

Stephanie E. Pitts

- The Meaning of Lived Experience

Paddy Scannell

- Affect and Experience

Matthew Reason

Shorts

- Live Art, Death Threats: The Theatrical Antagonism of First Night

Alexis Soloski

- Attention as a Tension: Affective Experience between Performer and Audience in the Live Encounter

Victoria Gray

- Empathy and Resonant Relationships in Performance Art

Lynn Lu

- Embodied Traces: Co-presence, Kinaesthesia and Bodily Inscription

Imogene Newland

- An Experience of Becoming: Wearing a Tail and Alpine Walking

Catherine Bagnall

- Sisters Academy: Radical Live Intervention into the Educational System

Gry Worre Halberg

- One-to-One Performance: Who’s in Charge?

Sarah Hogarth and Emma Bramley

- A Performatic Archive

Kerrie Reading

- Theatre of Bone

Rebecca Schneider



Part 2: Materialising

Section Introduction: Matthew Reason and Anja Mølle Lindelof

Chapters

- What is a Live Event?

Gary Peters

- Improvising Music Experience: The Eternal Ex-temporisation of Music Made Live

Steve Tromans

- The Place of Performance: A Critical Historiography on the Topos of Time

Jonah Westerman

- Objectifying Liveness: Labour, Agency and the Body in the 11 Rooms Exhibition

Lisa Newman

- Reconsidering Liveness in the Age of Digital Implication

Eirini Nedelkopoulou

- Environmental Performance: Framing Time

Anja Mølle Lindelof, Ulrik Schmidt and Connie Svabo

Shorts

- Three Performances: A Virtual (Musical) Improvisation

Mathias Maschat and Christopher Williams

- Chronography

Craig Dworkin

- Memory, Time and Self: A Text Work based on a Conceptual Performance

Paul Forte

- Broken Magic: The Liveness of Loudspeakers

Dugal McKinnon

- Managing Live Audience Attention in the Age of Digital Mediation: The Good, The God and The Guillotine:

Martin Blain

- Enlivened Serendipity

Allen S. Weiss

- National Theatre Wales’s Coriolan/us: A ‘Live Film’

Mike Pearson

- Machines in Queer Gardens: Performance as Mixed Surreality

Judd Morrissey and Mark Jeffery

Afterword

So Close and Yet So Far Away: The Proxemics of Liveness

Philip Auslander

List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Reason is Professor of Theatre and Performance at York St John University, UK.

Anja Mølle Lindelof is Assistant Professor of Performance Design at Roskilde University, Denmark.