1st Edition
Bastard or Playmate? Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts
264 Pages
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Routledge
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... Read more
Introduction, Theatre Between Performance and Installation, The Fourth Wall, or the Rift Between Citizen and Government, Using Recorded Images for Political Purposes, A Campsite for the Avant-Garde and a Church in Cyberspace, Echoes from the Animist Past, Folding Mutants or Crumbling Hybrids?, Making UNMAKEABLELOVE, Witness Protection?, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Intermedial Reproduction, Rimini Protokoll’s Theatricalization of Reality, Digital Landscapes, The Productivity of the Prototype, The Theatre of Recorded Sound and Film, Doubled Bodies and Live Loops, Between Solitaire and a Basketball Game, Index of Subjects, Index of Names
Biography
David Depestel is a freelance translator and editor Boris Debackere is a multimedia artist. Robrecht Vanderbeeken is a postdctoral fellow at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University College Ghent Christel Stalpaert is professor of theatre, performance and media studies at Ghent University and co-director of the research Group S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media)
