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

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 p...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:MediaMatters
TeilnehmendeR:
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).
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
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