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Bastard or Playmate?

Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts
  • Edited by: Robrecht Vanderbeeken , Christel Stalpaert , David Depestel and Boris Debackere
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2012
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This fascinating volume explores the theme of mutating and adapting media in its relation to theatre and performance. Bringing together international scholars and artists, the editors offer a comprehensive overview of the changing nature of theater, focusing on interactivity, corporeality, liveness, surveillance, spectacle, performativity, and theatricality. Bastard or Playmate? shows how dismantling the medium of theater has led to a fertile ground for new art. This wide-ranging and vibrant book provides an excellent guide for readers unfamiliar with the field of intermediality, as well as researchers and experienced theater artists.

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Robrecht Vanderbeeken is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University College Ghent.


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Perhaps the Medium-Specificity of the Contemporary Performing Arts is Mutation?
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Three Contemporary Belgian Examples
Christophe Van Gerrewey
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17

Another Attempt at a Conceptual Synthesis of Theatre and Politics
Klaas Tindemans
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31

Nancy Delhalle
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43

Christoph Schlingensief’s Dialogue with Avant-Gardism
Anna Teresa Scheer
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Abattoir Fermé’s Dark Backward and Abysm of Time
Evelien Jonckheere
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77

Of Looking Baroque in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Jeroen Coppens
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90

The Relocation of Theatre
Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw
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Elise Morrison
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121

Rimini Protokoll’s Mnemopark
Katia Arfara
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Frederik Le Roy
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153

The Meta-Picturesque Qualities of Kurt d’Haeseleer’s Audiovisual Sceneries
Nele Wynants
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161

On Julien Maire’s ‘Cinema of Contraptions’
Edwin Carels
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178

Vacating Performance in Michael Curran’s Look What They Done To My Song
Marco Pustianaz
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196

On Ragnar Kjartansson’s Mediatized Performances
Eva Heisler
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221

Dramaturgical Strategies in the Work of Antonia Baehr
Tom Engels
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July 15, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9789048513178
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