Anatomy live : : performance and the operating theatre / / edited by Maaike Bleeker.

• Superior document: MediaMatters
• TeilnehmendeR: Bleeker, Maaike,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: MediaMatters.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

Gross anatomy, the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by unassisted vision, has long been a subject of fascination for artists. For most modern viewers, however, the anatomy lesson 'the technically precise province of clinical surgeons and medical faculties' hardly seems the proper breeding ground for the hybrid workings of art and theory. We forget that, in its early stages, anatomy pursued the highly theatrical spirit of Renaissance science, as painters such as Rembrandt and Da Vinci and medical instructors like Fabricius of Aquapendente shared audiences devoted to the workings of the human body. 'Anatomy Live/Performance and the Operating Theatre/ a remarkable consideration of new developments on the stage, as well as in contemporary writings of theorists such as Donna Haraway and Brian Massumi, turns our modern notions of the dissecting table on its head' using anatomical theatre as a means of obtaining a fresh perspective on representations of the body, conceptions of subjectivity, and own knowledge about science and the stage. Critically dissecting well-known exhibitions like 'Body Worlds' and 'The Visible Human Project' and featuring contributions from a number of diverse scholars on such subjects as the construction of spectatorship and the implications of anatomical history, 'Anatomy Live' is not to be missed by anyone with an interest in this engaging intersection of science and artistic practice.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue Men with Glass Bodies / Barker, Francis -- Introduction / Bleeker, Maaike -- Performance Documentation 1: Holoman; Digital Cadaver / Tyler, Mike -- Digital Cadavers and Virtual Dissection / Dijck, José van -- 'Who Were You?': The Visible and the Visceral / Maxwell, Ian -- Performance Documentation 2: Excavations : Fresh but Rotten / Boulogne, Marijs -- The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Moxham / Ingham, Karen -- 'Be not faithless but believing': Illusion and Doubt in the Anatomy Theatre / Bouchard, Gianna -- Performance Documentation 3: De Anatomische Les / Tetley, Glen -- Of Dissection and Technologies of Culture in Actor Training Programs - an Example from 1960's West Germany / Klöck, Anja -- Ocular Anatomy, Chiasm, and Theatre Architecture as a Material Phenomenology in Early Modern Europe / Camp, Pannill -- Performance Documentation 4: Camillo - Memo 4.0: The Cabinet of Memories - A Tear Donnor Session / Hrvatin, Emil -- Martin , Massumi , and The Matrix / Bleeker, Maaike -- Performance Documentation 5: sensing presence no. 1: performing a hyperlink system / Copraij / Jenniches / Kunzmann -- 'Where Are You Now?': Locating the Body in Contemporary Performance / Foster, Susan Leigh -- Performance Documentation 6: Under My Skin / Müller, Ivana -- Anatomies of Live Art / Norman, Sally Jane -- Performance Documentation 7: Crash / Joris, Eric -- Restaging the Monstrous / Kunst, Bojana -- Delirium of the Flesh: 'All the Dead Voices' in the Space of the Now / Kobialka, Michal -- Performance Documentation 8: Körper / Waltz, Sasha -- Operating Theatres: Body-bits and a Post-apartheid Aesthetics / Fensham, Rachel -- Index