Immersive theatres : intimacy and immediacy in contemporary performance / Josephine Machon

By:

Machon, Josephine, 1979-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: xix, 324 pàgines : il·lustracions ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

no mediat

Carrier type:

volum

ISBN:

9781137019844
1137019840
9781137019837
1137019832

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

792.022 23

LOC classification:

PN1590.A9 M33 2013

Contents:

Conté: Contributing artists and referenced work. Michael Morris (Joint Artistic Director of Artangel) : H.G., The missing voice (Case study B) ; Felix Barrett (Founder and Artistic Director of Punchdrunk) : Masque of the red death, The crash of the Elysium ; Bruce Gladwin (Artistic Director of Back to Back Theatre) : Soft, Small metal objects ; Christer Lundahl and Martina Seitl (Founders and Artistic Directors of Lundahl & Seitl) : Symphony of a missing room, Rotating in a room of moving images ; Silvia Mercuriali : Etiquette, And the birds fell from the sky ; Tassos Stevens (Co-founder and Co-director of Coney) : The gold-bug, A small town anywhere ; Samantha Holdsworth (Co-founder and Co-artistic Director of Nimble Fish) : The container, Re:bourne ; Punchdrunk Enrichment led by Pete Higgin (Enrichment Director) : Under the eiderdown, The uncommercial traveller ; Louise Ann Wilson : House, Fissure ; Bill Mitchell (Artistic Director) and Sue Hill (Associate Director of WildWorks) : Souterrain, The passion ; Adrian Howells : Foot Washing for the Sole, The Pleasure of Being : Washing, Feeding, Holding ; Tristan Sharps (Founder and Artistic Director of dreamthinkspeak) : Before I Sleep, The Rest Is Silence. Introduction. Immersive Theatre ; An immersive inheritance : Modernism, Antonin Artaud and 'total theatres', Happenings and Environmental Theatre, Installation and intimacy, Immersive technologies, sensual technologies, Intimacy, involvement and communitas ; Immersive theatres : immediacy and intimacy today ; Immersion and interaction ; Presence as praesence ; The structure of Part One and Part Two -- Part 1. Defining Immersive Theatres. 1. Definitions and Details : Definitions ; Defining immersiveness, immersion, immersivity : Immersion, involvement and presence : Gaming Theory, Immersion, involvement and praesence : defining immersive theatre ; Gauging an immersive event. 2. Features and Finer Details: A Scale of Immersivity. Central features of immersive practice ... ; ... Audience involvement, audience evolvement ; ... Sensual worlds: immediacy, intimacy and sensuality ; ... Space, place and praesence: site-inspired practice ; ... Immersive worlds: immersive environments and the environment ; The scale of immersivity ; 3. Immersive Perspectives. Immersive perspectives: feeling, form and function ; Immersive practice and experiential form: (syn)aesthetics ; Immersive perspectives: making-sense/sense-making ; Gilles Deleuze: `immanence' and the ludic logic of sense ; Kathryn Linn Geurts: embodied feeling, embodied knowing: `Seselelame' ; Immersive perspectives: the pleasures of the audience ; Umberto Eco and open works ; Jacques Ranciere's `emancipated spectator' ; Nicolas Bourriaud and relational aesthetics ; Immersive perspectives: the significance of space ; Juhani Pallasmaa: the sensuality of space ; Doreen Massey: the politics of space and place ; Gaston Bachelard: the poetics of space ; Immersive theatres: audience, space, duration, sensation -- Part 2. Immersion, Intimacy and Immediacy in Practice. Introduction ; Conversations one. Michael Morris of Artangel : Immersive theatres : intimacy, immediacy, transformation ; Felix Barrett of Punchdrunk : Immersive theatres : intimacy, immediacy, imagination ; Conversations two. Bruce Gladwin of Back To Back Theatre : The intimate (im)mediacy of sound ; Lundahl & Seitl : Challenging the (im)mediate interface ; Silvia Mercuriali : Immersive imaginations : the intimate and (im)mediate ; Conversations three. Tassos Stevens of Coney : Playing with(in) the 'what is' and 'what if' ; Samantha Holdsworth of Nimble Fish : Immersivity and cultural production : 'permission to play' ; Punchdrunk Enrichment : Immersion, enrichment and empowerment. Conversations four. Louise Ann Wilson : Immersed in the environment : 'off the beaten track' ; Bill Mitchell and Sue Hill of WildWorks : Immersive communitas : space, place and people ; Conversations five. Adrian Howells : The epic in the intimate ; Tristan Sharps of dreamthinkspeak : The intimate in the epic -- Conclusion : Immersive Theatres

Summary: " Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, this is the first survey of immersive theories and practices for students, scholars and practitioners of contemporary performance. It includes original interviews with immersive artists and examines key topics such as site-specific performance and immersive technologies" -- Web de l'editor

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	792.9 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900072258

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" Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, this is the first survey of immersive theories and practices for students, scholars and practitioners of contemporary performance. It includes original interviews with immersive artists and examines key topics such as site-specific performance and immersive technologies" -- Web de l'editor

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