Bastard or playmate? : : adapting theatre, mutating media and the contemporary performing arts / / 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,...

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Superior document:Theater topics
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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).
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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 Ferm?e'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.