Reason / Lindelof Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-33485-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

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 Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Philip Auslander Introduction: Something is Happening: Liveness and Audiences Matthew Reason and Anja Mølle Lindelof PART I. AUDIENCING. Experience, Meaning Making and the Cultural Production of Liveness Section introduction 1. Coming (a)live: a Prolegomenon to any Future Research on ‘Liveness’ Martin Barker 2. Orange Dogs and Memory Responses: Creativity in Spectating and Remembering Katja Hilevaara 3. The Role of Liveness in the Embodied Perception of Contemporary Dance Matthew Reason 4. What is the Live Event? Gary Peters Short 1. Duration at the Pass Rebecca Schneider Short 2. Attention as a Tension: Affective Experience between Performer and Audience in the Live Encounter Victoria Gray Short 3. Embodied Traces: Co-Presence, Kinaesthesia, and Bodily Inscription Imogene Newlands Short 4. A Punch in the Gut: Experiential Knowledge, Empathy, and Performance Art Lynn Lu Short 5. Theatre for One: Who’s in Charge? Sarah Hogarth and Emma Bramley Short 6. Live Art, Death Threats: The Theatrical Antagonism of "First Night" Alexis Soloski Part II. MEDIATING. Liveness in, Through, and with Technology Section Introduction 5. The Intersection of Mediation and Experience through Technology: Exploring Fandom, Social Media, and Live Concerts Lucy Bennett 6. How the Internet Changed the Live Experience: Liveness in the Age of Continuous Mediations Fabian Holt 7. Tuning in or Turning Off? The Roles of Live and Recorded Music in Shaping Audience Experience Stephanie E. Pitts 8. A Story or Two about Experiencer’s Attention: Liveness and Ubiquitous Intermedial Practice Eirini Nedelkopoulou Short 7. Mediating Shakespeare: Coriolanus as ‘live film’ Mike Pearson Short 8. Is it Live or is it Memorex? Managing Audience Attention in the Age of Digital Mediation Through Live Performance Martin Blain Short 9. Broken Magic: The Liveness of Loudspeakers Dugal McKinnon Short 10. Queering Computational Embodiment and Liveness Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality (ATOM-r) PART III. PRACTICES. Creative and Institutional Relationships with Liveness Section introduction 9. Failing to Live: The Necessary Ex-temporisation of Live Music Experience Steve Tromans 10. Performing Time: The Multiple Temporalities of Non-Human Performance Anja Lindelof, Connie Svabo, and Ulrik Schmidt 11. Objectifying Liveness: The 11 Rooms Exhibition Lisa Newman 12. Performance without End: Revisiting the Problem of Presence Jonah Westerman Short 11. Is the Past Alive? Insights from Re-constituting Performance Kerrie Reading Short 12. Wearing Tails, Alpine Walking, and Becoming Animal Cartherine Bagnall Short 13. Dancing about Witnesses Mathias Maschat and Christopher Williams Short 14. Chronography Craig Dworkins Short 15. Sisters Academy: Radical Intervention into the Educational System Gry Worre Halberg Short 16. Theater of the Ears Allen S. Weiss Conclusion

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.