Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance

by Susan Broadhurst, Josephine Machon

Overview

This innovative collection features essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars and reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting exchange between text, body and technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349305834
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/20/2010
Edition description:	1st ed. 2009
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

MOJISOLA ADEBAYO, actor, writer, teacher, director and producer RIC ALLSOPP, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Visiting Professor, Centre for Dance Education (HZT), University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany PHIL ELLIS, Lecturer in Media Arts and Television Arts, University of Plymouth, UK RACHEL FENSHAM, Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, University of Surrey, UK, and Honorary Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia RUSSELL FRAMPTON, Associate Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, University of Plymouth, UK JOHN FREEMAN, Senior Lecturer in Modern Drama Studies, Brunel University, West London, UK SARA GIDDENS, choreographer and co-director of Bodies in Flight SIMON JONES, writer, scholar and co-director of Bodies in Flight ROBERTA MOCK, Reader in Performance, University of Plymouth, UK STELARC, Chair in Performance Art, Brunel University, West London, UK, and Senior Research Fellow, MARCS Labs, University of Western Sydney, Australia DAWN STOPPIELLO, choreographer and co-founder of Troika Ranch OLU TAIWO, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Art, University of Winchester, UK FIONA TEMPLETON, writer, performer, and director of performance group The Relationship TRACEY WARR, Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory, Oxford Brookes University, UK RUTH WAY, Senior Lecturer and Head of Theatre and Performance, University of Plymouth, UK PAUL WOODWARD, Senior Lecturer in Drama& Physical Theatre, St.Mary's University College, UK

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Foreword Ric Allsopp ix

Notes on the Editors xv

Notes on the Contributors xvi

Introduction Susan Broadhurst Josephine Machon 1

Part 1 Writing and Technologies - New Epistemologies 7

1 Digital Practices: New Writings of the Body Susan Broadhurst 9

2 Texts from the Body Tracey Wan 23

3 De-Second-Naturing: Word Unbecoming Flesh in the Work of Bodies in Flight Sara Giddens Simon Jones 38

4 The Body of the Text: The Uses of the 'ScreenPage' in New Media Phil Ellis 50

Part 2 The Body Writes Itself… 65

5 PROSTHETIC HEAD: Ideas and Anecdotes on the Seductiveness of Embodied Conversational Agents Stelarc 67

6 Performative (Dis)closures - Sensual Readings and Writings of the Positive Body Paul Woodward 79

7 The Supernatural Embodied Text: Creating Moj of the Antarctic with the Living and the Dead Mojisola Adebayo 92

Part 3 Performing the Body/Performing the Text?Writing the Body/Writing the Text 117

9 Socializing the Self: Autoethnographical Performance and the Social Signature John Freeman 119

10 La Fura dels Baus's XXX: Deviant Textualities and The Formless Roberta Mock 132

11 Bodies in Suspension: The Aesthetics of Doubt in Honour Bound Rachel Fensham 146

12 Translation: Words < - > Movement < - > Bits Dawn Stoppiello 162

Part 4 Corporeal Intertextualities - Body/Text/ Technologies 175

13 Speaking for Performance/Writing with the Voice Fiona Templeton 177

14 Authenticity and Perception in the Making of Utah Sunshine: A Dance Theatre/Arts Film Ruth Way Russell Frampton 187

15 (Syn)aesthetic Writings: Caryl Churchill's Sensual Textualities and the Rebirth of Text Josephine Machon 201

Index 217

Editorial Reviews

'A challenging, occasionally irritating, but always worthwhile entry in a growing critical field. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals'

- R. Remshardt, University of Florida, Choice 2010 title

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