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

• Superior document: Theater topics
• TeilnehmendeR: Vanderbeeken, Robrecht,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Theater topics.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).
• Other title: Introduction : perhaps the medium-specificity of the contemporary performing arts is mutation? --; Theatre between performance and installation : three contemporary Belgian examples /; The fourth wall, or the rift between citizen and government : another attempt at a conceptual synthesis of theatre and politics /; Using recorded images for political purposes /; A campsite for the avant-garde and a church in cyberspace : Christophe Schlingensief's dialogue with avant-gardism /; Echoes from the animist past /; Folding mutants or crumbling hybrids? : of looking baroque in contemporary theatre and performance /; Making Unmakeablelove : the relocation of theatre /; Witness protection? : surveillance technologies in theatrical performance /; The work of art in the age of its intermedial reproduction : Rimini Protokoll's Mnemopark /; Rimini Protokoll's theatricalization of reality /; Digital landscapes : the meta-picturesque qualities of Kurt d'Haeseleer's audiovisual sceneries /; The productivity of the prototype : on Julien Maire's 'cinema of contraptions' /; The theatre of recorded sound and film : vacating performance in Michael Curran's Look what they done to my song /; Doubled bodies and live loops : on Ragnar Kjartansson's mediatized performances /; Between solitaire and a basketball game : dramaturgical strategies in the work of Antonia Baehr /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9048513170
• Access: Open Access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Robrecht Vanderbeeken [and others].

This fascinating volume explores the theme of mutating and adapting media in its relation to theatre and performance. Bringing together international scholars and artists, the editors offer a comprehensive overview of the changing nature of theater, focusing on interactivity, corporeality, liveness, surveillance, spectacle, performativity, and theatricality. 'Bastard or Playmate' shows how dismantling the medium of theater has led to a fertile ground for new art. This wide-ranging and vibrant book provides an excellent guide for readers unfamiliar with the field of intermediality, as well as researchers and experienced theater artists.