Bastard or Playmate?

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2012

Bastard or Playmate?

Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts

Edited by: Robrecht Vanderbeeken , Christel Stalpaert , David Depestel and Boris Debackere

In the series Theater Topics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048513178

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About this book

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.

Author information

Robrecht Vanderbeeken is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University College Ghent.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Perhaps the Medium-Specificity of the Contemporary Performing Arts is Mutation? Open Access Download PDF	9
Theatre Between Performance and Installation Three Contemporary Belgian Examples Christophe Van Gerrewey Open Access Download PDF	17
The Fourth Wall, or the Rift Between Citizen and Government Another Attempt at a Conceptual Synthesis of Theatre and Politics Klaas Tindemans Open Access Download PDF	31
Using Recorded Images for Political Purposes Nancy Delhalle Open Access Download PDF	43
A Campsite for the Avant-Garde and a Church in Cyberspace Christoph Schlingensief’s Dialogue with Avant-Gardism Anna Teresa Scheer Open Access Download PDF	57
Echoes from the Animist Past Abattoir Fermé’s Dark Backward and Abysm of Time Evelien Jonckheere Open Access Download PDF	77
Folding Mutants or Crumbling Hybrids? Of Looking Baroque in Contemporary Theatre and Performance Jeroen Coppens Open Access Download PDF	90
Making UNMAKEABLELOVE The Relocation of Theatre Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw Open Access Download PDF	102
Witness Protection? Surveillance Technologies in Theatrical Performance Elise Morrison Open Access Download PDF	121
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Intermedial Reproduction Rimini Protokoll’s Mnemopark Katia Arfara Open Access Download PDF	144
Rimini Protokoll’s Theatricalization of Reality Frederik Le Roy Open Access Download PDF	153
Digital Landscapes The Meta-Picturesque Qualities of Kurt d’Haeseleer’s Audiovisual Sceneries Nele Wynants Open Access Download PDF	161
The Productivity of the Prototype On Julien Maire’s ‘Cinema of Contraptions’ Edwin Carels Open Access Download PDF	178
The Theatre of Recorded Sound and Film Vacating Performance in Michael Curran’s Look What They Done To My Song Marco Pustianaz Open Access Download PDF	196
Doubled Bodies and Live Loops On Ragnar Kjartansson’s Mediatized Performances Eva Heisler Open Access Download PDF	221
Between Solitaire and a Basketball Game Dramaturgical Strategies in the Work of Antonia Baehr Tom Engels Open Access Download PDF	238
Index of Subjects Open Access Download PDF	249
Index of Names Open Access Download PDF	256

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 57 halftones

eBook

Published: July 15, 2012
ISBN: 9789048513178