Blue Sky Body

Thresholds for Embodied Research
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-60855-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 419 g

Blue Sky Body: Thresholds for Embodied Research is the follow-up to Ben Spatz's 2015 book What a Body Can Do, charting a course through more than twenty years of embodied, artistic, and scholarly research.

Emerging from the confluence of theory and practice, this book combines full-length critical essays with a kaleidoscopic selection of fragments from journal entries, performance texts, and other unpublished materials to offer a series of entry points organized by seven keywords: city, song, movement, theater, sex, document, politics. Brimming with thoughtful and sometimes provocative takes on embodiment, technology, decoloniality, the university, and the politics of knowledge, the work shared here models the integration of artistic and embodied research with critical thought, opening new avenues for transformative action and experimentation.

Invaluable to scholars and practitioners working through and beyond performance, Blue Sky Body is both an unconventional introduction to embodied research and a methodological intervention at the edges of contemporary theory.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spatz, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword : D. Soyini Madison

Preface: Blue Sky Body

Acknowledgments

THRESHOLDS

1. CITY: FRAGMENTS

Sky Gold (1995)

The Electronic Heart (2001)

Vermilion’s Text (2001-2003)

Another City (2009)

Embodiment as First Affordance (2017)

2. SONG: FRAGMENTS

Sweat (2003)

Vessels (2008)

Burning Up (2009)

Topology of Song (2015)

Colors Like Knives (2017)

3. MOVEMENT: FRAGMENTS

First Showing (2000)

The Door is Open (2004)

Letters to an Empty Room (2008)

Irregular Rhythms (2014)

Choreography as Research (2017)

4. THEATER: FRAGMENTS

Wild Spirit (1999)

Acts Without Organs (2008)

Beckett’s Non-Theater (2011)

PLAYWAR (2012)

A Thousand Tiny Viewpoints (2020)

5. SEX: FRAGMENTS

the desert (2003)

On Pornography and Trauma (2009)

Is Grotowski Queer? (2013)

soft butch (2018)

This Extraordinary Power (2010)

6. DOCUMENT: FRAGMENTS

Citing Musicality (2013)

Ethics of the Scribble (2016)

What Do We Document? (2017)

Criteria for Assessment (2017)

The Video Way of Thinking (2018)

7. POLITICS: FRAGMENTS

neverland (2002)

A Charismatic Moment (2009)

Touching Landscape (2016)

Duration and Kinship (2018)

Notes for Decolonizing Embodiment (2019)

Appendix: Interviews

Interview: Iben Nagel Rasmussen (2018)

Interview: Tim Ingold (2019)

Performance Text: Rite of the Butcher (2013)

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Spatz is Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre, and Performance at the University of Huddersfield, UK. They are the author of What a Body Can Do: Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research (2015), the founder and editor of the videographic Journal of Embodied Research, published by Open Library of Humanities, and an internationally recognized speaker on embodied research methods. For more information, please visit www.urbanresearchtheater.com.