Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance is an edited collection designed to address a diverse set of critical responses to and practical interrogations of the notion of being intimate in emergent and hybrid performance practices, aiming to elicit connectivity and provoke debate about the potency, nature and agency of intimacy in contemporary performance.Lauren Berlant suggests that intimacy (
) involves an aspiration for a narrative about something shared (2000, p. 1). Sensing intimacy in performance relocates registers of affect from the private experience to the public sphere. Within the current climate of intense global political, social and financial insecurity and unrest, at a time infused with both hope and fear, artists appear to be demonstrating a desire for intimacy and closeness with the Other. Those public figurings of intimacy staged through contemporary performance, visual culture and digital art practices become the cultural fuel which, when placed alongside political potentialities, can ignite debates and provocations such as those contained herein.
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'This book offers terrific insights into performance and intimacy by exploring and yoking 'visceral' and 'digital' performance(s), each of which can significantly affect the nature and experience of intimacy. The authors use inventive approaches to generate critical and innovative discussions of intimacy in/and performance.' - Professor Joanne Tompkins, School of English, Media Studies, and Art History, University of Queensland, Australia
'This collection provides a very useful critical context for thinking about the visceral and the digital, and it offers a range of approaches and practices that will be of interest to scholars and students in performance and theatre studies. It presents a rich and timely selection of work from artists, scholars, and curators that draws a significant trajectory of intimacy in digital and body-based practices and will add to the ever-growing field of intimate, one-to-one, and technology-based work.' - Eirini Kartsaki, Contemporary Theatre Review
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| Introduction |
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Maria Chatzichristodoulou |
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Part I Ethical Readings of Political Intimacies |
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2 Not Citizens, But Persons: The Ethics in Action of Performance's Intimate Work |
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3 Collapsing Alibis: Intimacy and the Ethics of Wit(h)nessing |
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Part II Familiar Intimacies: Bodily Fluids and Microbiology |
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4 The Hazardous Conversation: The Practice of Intimacy in Performance at The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home |
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5 Performing with Mother's Milk: The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar |
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6 The Normal Flora Project: Intimate Revelations in Art and Science |
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Part III Abuse, Perversion and Obscenity: Knotty Intimacies in Contemporary Performance Practices |
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7 Ecstatic Intervals: Performance in a Continuum of Intimacy |
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8 Between Bodies: An Artist's Account of the Oral Connection Between Human and Dog |
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Part IV Visceral Technologies: From MySpace to My Body |
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11 Bodies of Colour/Media Skins |
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12 BioMuse to Bondage: Corporeal Interaction in Performance and Exhibition |
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Part V An Intimate Distance Apart |
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14 Katie Mitchell: Intimate Technologies in Multimedia Performance |
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15 Intimacy, Delicacy and Indifference: Ane Lan's Migrating Birds |
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| A Discussion on the Subject of Intimacy in Performance, and an Afterword |
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| Bibliography |
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GARY ANDERSON Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK SANDY BALDWIN Associate Professor of English, West Virginia University, USA ANGELA BARTRAM Senior Lecturer, University of Lincoln, UK JOANNES BIRRINGER Professor of Performance Technologies, School of Arts, Brunel University, UK JESS DOBKIN Fellow, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, Canada ANNDA DUMUTRIU Visiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence with the Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK JANUES JEFFERIES Professor of Visual Arts and Research, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK DOMINIC JOHNSON Lecturer, Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK) SIMON JONES Professor of Performance, University of Bristol, UK JOE KELLEHER Professor of Theatre and Performance, Roehampton University, UK BRANISLAVA KUBUROVIC independent researcher, UK ERIN MANNING University Research Chair in Relational Art and Philosophy, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Canada ELENA PAPADAKI independent researcher, UK PAUL SERMON Professor of Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK LENA SIMIC Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK
ATAU TANAKA Professor at Goldsmiths Digital Studios, University of London, UK
TRACEY WARR Lecturer in Art Theory, Oxford Brookes University, UK
