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Performing arousal : precarious bodies and frames of representation

Title

Performing arousal : precarious bodies and frames of representation / edited by Julia Listengarten and Yana Meerzon.

Publication

London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2022.
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Description

vi, 261 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

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 arts-based community engagement, this collection draws on the complicated relationship between arousing images and the frames of their representability to address what constitutes arousal in a variety of connotations. It examines arousal as a project of social, scientific, cultural, and artistic experimentation, and discusses how our perception of arousal has transformed over the last century. Probing "what arouses" in relation to the ethics of representation, the book investigates the connections between arousal and pleasures of voyeurism, underscores the political impact of aroused bodies, and explores how arousal can turn the body into a mediated object. --

Series Statement

Methuen drama engage

Uniform Title

Methuen drama engage.

Subject

Genre/Form

Art.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Body and Arousal: On Social, Cultural, Scientific, and Artistic Experiment: Introduction / Julia Listengarten and Yana Meerzon -- Section One: Pleasured Body -- 1. Kokoschka's Fetish: Violence, Puppetness, and the Female Simulacrum as Mediated Body/Object in the Central European Avant-Garde / Tim Butler Garrett -- 2. Dalí's Dream of Venus: Sex, Surrealism, and Disability at the 1939 New York World's Fair / Keri Watson -- 3. Blood and Desire: Collaborating through Arousal / Alissa Clarke -- 4. Getting Lippy with the Patriarchy: Contemporary Women Artists' "Lip Art" / Lara Cox -- 5. Transformation and Arousal: The Pleasure of Performative Indeterminacy in Persona Theatre Company's Phaedra I Avra Sidiropoulou -- Section Two: Political Body -- 6. Höch's Weimar and Wilhelm: Rundschau's Avant-Garde Reframing / J. Brandon Pelcher -- 7. The Dissonance of Resonating Bodies and the Collisions of Reality Friction: Structures of Ambiguity in Christoph Schlingensief's Bitte Liebt Österreich / Tony Perucci -- 8. The Sacrificed Young Woman: Necropolitics and Patriarchy in Koffi Kwahulé's Bintou / Selim Rauer -- 9. Pussy Riot's Radical Acts: Transgressive Bodies in Performance and the Ghosting of the Russian Avant-Garde / Julia Listengarten -- 10. Body as Site for Feminist Theatrical Discourse: A Pedagogic and Performative Experiment with Arousing Images by Anuradha Kapur / Indu Jain -- 11. Both Sides, Now: Between Narratives of Decline and Gestures of Care / Alvin Eng Hui Lim -- Section Three: Abject Body -- 12. The Knee, the Elbow, the Face: On Body as Abject in Vladimir Nabokov's Visual Imagination / Yana Meerzon -- 13. Trauma, Ethics, and the Puppet Body in Handspring Puppet Company / Dawn Tracey Brandes -- 14. "Upside Down": The Rough Play of Narcissister's Avant-Porn / Rebecca Clark -- 15. Queer Epistemologies in the Making of Queer Makishi: Visibility, Trans-position, and Devised Performance Practice / Johann Robert Wood -- 16. Island Icarus: Signaling through the Flames as Critical Performance Design / Dorita Hannah.

Call Number

MWET 22-1072

ISBN

9781350155633
1350155632

OCLC

1276788123

Title

Performing arousal : precarious bodies and frames of representation / edited by Julia Listengarten and Yana Meerzon.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2022.

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Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Methuen drama engage

Methuen drama engage.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Listengarten, Julia, 1967- editor.

Meerzon, Yana, editor.

Other Form:

Online version : Performing arousal. London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2022. 9781350155640 (OCoLC)1291194210

ebook version : 9781350155640

Research Call Number

MWET 22-1072

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