Recent technological and scientific developments have demonstrated a condition that has already long been upon us. We have entered a posthuman era, an assertion shared by an increasing number of thinkers such as N. Katherine Hayles, Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Richard Grusin, and Bernard Stiegler. The performing arts have reacted to these developments by increasingly opening up their traditionally human domain to non-human others. Both philosophy and performing arts thus question what it means to be human from a posthumanist point of view and how the agency of non-humans be they technology, objects, animals, or other forms of being works on both an ontological and performative level. The contributions in this volume brings together scholars, dramaturgs, and artists, uniting their reflections on the consequences of the posthuman condition for creative practices, spectatorship, and knowledge.
1. Performance and Posthumanism: Co-Creation, Response-ability and
Epistemologies; Christel Stalpaert, Kristof van Baarle and Laura
Karreman.- 2. 9 variations on things and performance; André Lepecki.- 3. Does
the donkey act? Balthazar as protagonist; Maximilian Haas.- 4. Latent
Performances. Conditions for some things to happen; Daniel
Blanga-Gubbay.- 5. Aesthetics of Mykorrhiza. The practice of
Apparatus; Stefenie Wenner.- 6. On Composite Bodies and New Media
Dramaturgy; Peter Eckersall and Kris Verdonck.- 7. Decoding Effet Papillon,
choreography for three dancers inspired by the world of video games; Mylčne
Benoit and Philippe Guisgand.- 8. The refrain and the territory of the
posthuman; Aline Wiame.- 9. The right to remain forgotten and the data crimes
of post-digital culture: a ceaseless traumatic event; Matthew
Causey.- 10. The Biography of a Digital Device. The Interwovenness of
Humanand Non-Human Movements in Production and Distribution Processes as
thematized in the Artwork Rare Earthenware by Unknown Fields; Martina
Ruhsam.- 11. Tentacular Thinking-With-Things in Storied Places. Parliament of
Things (2019) by Building Conversation; Christel Stalpaert.- 12. The Point of
the Matter: Performativity in Scientific Practices; Maaike Bleeker and Jean
Paul Van Bendegem.- 13. Music Notation and Distributed Creativity: The
Textility of Score Annotation; Emily Payne and Floris
Schuiling.- 14. Spectators in the laboratory: between theatre and
technoscience; Mateusz Borowski, Mateusz Chaberski, Magorzata
Sugiera.- 15. A Hybrid Device to Choreograph the Gaze: Embodying Vision
through a Historical Discourse on Optics in Benjamin Vandewalles
Peri-Sphere; Helena Julian and Dieter Brusselaers.
Christel Stalpaert is Professor of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the Art Studies Department at Ghent University, Belgium. She is director of the research centre S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media) and co-founder of CoDa | Cultures of Dance Research Network for Dance Studies. Kristof van Baarle is post-doctoral researcher at the Research Centre for Visual Poetics, Antwerp University, Belgium. As a dramaturg, he works with Kris Verdonck and Michiel Vandevelde.Together with Verdonck, he is conducting an artistic research project on Samuel Beckett and Noh at KASK School of Arts, Belgium. Laura Karreman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, where she teaches on the BA Media and Culture, the MA Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy, and the RMA Media,Art and Performance Studies courses.
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