Bastard or playmate? : : adapting theatre, mutating media and the contemporary performing arts / / edited by Robrecht Vanderbeeken [and three others].

• Superior document: Theater topics,
• TeilnehmendeR: Vanderbeeken, Robrecht,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2012]; 2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Theater topics.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages) :; illustrations.

Table of Contents

Introduction : perhaps the medium-specificity of the contemporary performing arts is mutation? -- Theatre between performance and installation : three contemporary Belgian examples / Christophe Van Gerrewey -- The fourth wall, or the rift between citizen and government : another attempt at a conceptual synthesis of theatre and politics / Klaas Tindemans -- Using recorded images for political purposes / Nancy Delhalle -- A campsite for the avant-garde and a church in cyberspace : Christophe Schlingensief's dialogue with avant-gardism / Anna Teresa Scheer -- Echoes from the animist past / Abattoir Ferme's dark backward and abysm of time / Evelien Jonckheere -- Folding mutants or crumbling hybrids? : of looking baroque in contemporary theatre and performance / Jeroen Coppens -- Making Unmakeablelove : the relocation of theatre / Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw -- Witness protection? : surveillance technologies in theatrical performance / Elise Morrison -- The work of art in the age of its intermedial reproduction : Rimini Protokoll's Mnemopark / Katia Arfara -- Rimini Protokoll's theatricalization of reality / Frederik Le Roy -- Digital landscapes : the meta-picturesque qualities of Kurt d'Haeseleer's audiovisual sceneries / Nele Wynants -- The productivity of the prototype : on Julien Maire's 'cinema of contraptions' / Edwin Carels -- The theatre of recorded sound and film : vacating performance in Michael Curran's Look what they done to my song / Marco Pustianaz -- Doubled bodies and live loops : on Ragnar Kjartansson's mediatized performances / Eva Heisler -- Between solitaire and a basketball game : dramaturgical strategies in the work of Antonia Baehr / Tom Engels.