Performing arousal precarious bodies and frames of representation

This book considers arousal as a mode of theoretical and artistic inquiry to encourage new ways of staging and examining bodies in performance across artistic disciplines, modern history, and cultural contexts. Looking at traditional drama and theatre, but also visual arts, performance activism, and...

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Weitere Verfasser: Listengarten, Julia 1967- (HerausgeberIn), Meerzon, Yana 1973- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Methuen Drama 2022
Schriftenreihe:Methuen drama engage
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Body and Arousal: On Social, Cultural, Scientific, and Artistic Experiment: Introduction Julia Listengarten and Yana Meerzon Pleasured Body
  • Kokoschka's Fetish: Violence, Puppetness, and the Female Simulacrum as Mediated Body/Object in the Central European Avant-Garde Tim Butler Garrett Dalí's Dream of Venus: Sex, Surrealism, and Disability at the 1939 New York World's Fair Keri Watson Blood and Desire: Collaborating through Arousal Alissa Clarke Getting Lippy with the Patriarchy: Contemporary Women Artists' "Lip Art" Lara Cox Transformation and Arousal: The Pleasure of Performative Indeterminacy in Persona Theatre Company's Phaedra I Avra Sidiropoulou Political Body
  • Höch's Weimar and Wilhelm: Rundschau's Avant-Garde Reframing J. Brandon Pelcher The Dissonance of Resonating Bodies and the Collisions of Reality Friction: Structures of Ambiguity in Christoph Schlingensief's Bitte Liebt Österreich Tony Perucci The Sacrificed Young Woman: Necropolitics and Patriarchy in Koffi Kwahulé's Bintou Selim Rauer Pussy Riot's Radical Acts: Transgressive Bodies in Performance and the Ghosting of the Russian Avant-Garde Julia Listengarten Body as Site for Feminist Theatrical Discourse: A Pedagogic and Performative Experiment with Arousing Images by Anuradha Kapur Indu Jain Both Sides, Now: Between Narratives of Decline and Gestures of Care Alvin Eng Hui Lim Abject Body
  • The Knee, the Elbow, the Face: On Body as Abject in Vladimir Nabokov's Visual Imagination Yana Meerzon
  • Trauma, Ethics, and the Puppet Body in Handspring Puppet Company Dawn Tracey Brandes Rebecca Clark Queer Epistemologies in the Making of Queer Makishi: Visibility, Trans-position, and Devised Performance Practice Johann Robert Wood Island Icarus: Signaling through the Flames as Critical Performance Design Dorita Hannah