Research Catalog

Title

Bastard or playmate? : adapting theatre, mutating media and the contemporary performing arts / edited by Robrecht Vanderbeeken ... [et al.].

Publication

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

Vanderbeeken, Robrecht.

Description

264 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Artistic media seem to be in a permanent condition of mutation and transformation. Contemporary artists often investigate the limits and possibilities of the media they use and experiment with the crossing, upgrading and mutilation of media. Others explicitly explore the unknown intermedial space between existing media, searching for the hybrid beings that occupy these in-betweens. This issue of Theater topics explores the theme of mutating and adapting media in its relation with theatre and performance"--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Theater topics, 1871-3009

Uniform Title

Theater topics.

Subject

• Experimental theater
• Mass media and theater

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Perhaps the medium-specificity of the contemporary performing arts is mutation? -- Theatre between performance and installation : three contemporary Belgian examples / Christophe Van Gerrewey -- The fourth wall, or the rift between citizen and government : another attempt at a conceptual synthesis of theatre and politics / Klaas Tindemans -- Using recorded images for political purposes / Nancy Delhalle -- A campsite for the avant-garde and a church in cyberspace : Christophe Schlingensief's dialogue with avant-gardism / Anna Teresa Scheer -- Echoes from the animist past : Abattoir Fermé's dark backward and abysm of time / Evelien Jonckheere -- Folding mutants or crumbling hybrids? : of looking Baroque in contemporary theatre and performance / Jeroen Coppens -- Making Unmakeablelove : the relocation of theatre / Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw -- Witness protection? : surveillance technologies in theatrical performance / Elise Morrison -- The work of art in the age of its intermedial reproduction : Rimini Protokoll's Mnemopark / Katia Arfara -- Rimini Protokoll's theatricalization of reality / Frederik Le Roy -- Digital landscapes : the meta-picturesque qualities of Kurt d'Haeseleer's audiovisual sceneries / Nele Wynants -- The productivity of the prototype : on Julien Maire's 'cinema of contraptions' / Edwin Carels -- The theatre of recorded sound and film : vacating performance in Michael Curran's Look what they done to my song / Marco Pustianaz -- Doubled bodies and live loops : on Ragnar Kjartansson's mediatized performances / Eva Heisler -- Between solitaire and a basketball game : dramaturgical strategies in the work of Antonia Baehr / Tom Engels.

ISBN

• 9789089642585
• 9089642587

OCLC

803842960

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library