Scenic Mutations: Transmediality, Postproduction and Metamorphoses In The Chilean Contemporary Theatre by Raúl Miranda We were recently sent a link to a Chilean book about technology and it uses in Chilean contemporary theatre. The link below is to the free pdf of the book. The english summary...
Scenography - the manipulation and orchestration of the performance environment - is an increasingly popular and key area in performance studies. This book introduces the reader to the purpose, identity and scope of scenography and its theories and concepts. Settings and structures, light, projected images,...
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Trust the Process Whether in painting, poetry, performance, music, dance, or life, there is an intelligence working in every situation. This force is the primary carrier of creation. If we trust it and follow its natural movement, it will astound us with its ability to find...
Situation—a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations—has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these...
Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture) by: Anna Munster In Materializing New Media, Anna Munster offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the prevailing Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the...
This anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance. Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical and historical challenges facing the scholar and the artist. This volume examines the subtle actions...
MICHEL MELAMED is a poet, writer, director and performer of The Brazilian Trilogy (Regurgitophagy, Free Money and Musicman) and author of the self-title books. Among many locations, Regurgitophagy was presented in New York (twice), Paris/ France, Berlin/ Germany, etc. Michel is also the creator, host...
The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The...
Emily Roysdon A Gay Bar Called Everywhere (With Costumes and No Practice) The Kitchen (NYC) Friday and Saturday, May 6—7, 2011 Roysdon will collaborate with Vanessa Anspaugh and Aretha Aoki, Jibz Cameron, Dean Daderko, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Nicole Eisenman, Barbara Hammer, K8 Hardy, Yve Laris Cohen, Thomas...
1. Can you tell us a little about your work, your history and your performative concerns. I'm Natasha, 20 years old. My first contact with the arts was when I was 3 years old, and I got into ballet classes. I danced for 12 years, and...
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