1st Edition

Performing Interdisciplinarity Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries Through an Active Aesthetic

Edited By Experience Bryon Copyright 2018
    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    Performing Interdisciplinarity proposes new ways of engaging with performance as it crosses, collides with, integrates and/or disturbs other disciplinary concerns. From Activism and Political Philosophy to Cognitive Science and Forensics, each chapter explores the relationships between performance and another discipline.

    Including cross-chapter discussions which address the intersections between fields, Performing Interdisciplinarity truly examines the making of meaning across disciplinary conventions. This is a volume for performance practitioners and scholars who are living, learning, writing, teaching, making and thinking at the edges of their specialisms.

    List of Contributors

    Acknowledgements

    Foreword - Claire Colebrook

     

    Introduction

    Experience Bryon

     

    Part I

    active aesthetic: Knowledge Performing

    Experience Bryon

     

    Part II

    virtual: Performance and Digital

    Joanne Scott

    Cross-Chapter Discussion: virtual & mediation

    mediation: Performance and Installation Art

    Luis Campos

    Cross-Chapter Discussion: mediation & utopia

    utopia: Performance and Social Geography: shattering the real with utopian dreams

    Selina Busby

    Cross-Chapter Discussion: utopia & role

    role: Performance and Pedagogy

    Jessica Hartley

    Cross-Chapter Discussion: role & embodiment

    embodiment: Performance and Cognitive Science

    Deirdre Mclaughlin

    Cross-Chapter Discussion: embodiment & story

    story: Performance and Psychology

    Antonia Batzoglou

    Cross-Chapter Discussion: story & virtual

    visibility: Performance and Activism

    Nando Messias

    Cross-Chapter Discussion: visibility & ‘the subject’

    ‘the subject’: Performance and Political Philosophy

    Rachel Cockburn

    Cross-Chapter Discussion: ‘the subject’ & voice

    voice: Performance and Forensics

    Konstantinos Thomaidis

    Cross-Chapter Discussion: voice & visibility

     

    Index

    Biography

    Experience Bryon, PhD, is a performance practitioner and Senior Lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She specialises in Practice as Research, interdisciplinary performance practice(s), physical/vocal praxis, and performance as it engages across disciplines. She is also author of Integrative Performance: Practice and Theory for the Interdisciplinary Performer (Routledge 2014).

    'This work offers a radical intervention in the ways we evaluate, measure and capture knowledge as it crosses disciplinary boundaries; a thought-provoking and engaging text.'
    J. Mark Bishop, Director of The Centre for Intelligent Data Analytics, Goldsmiths, University of London

    'This collection brings interdisciplinarity to performance studies with exciting results. In an intriguing series of essays on voice, space, story-making, digital media and other subjects, the contributors skilfully combine theory with urgently personal writing and embodied practice.'
    Joe Moran, Liverpool John Moores University

    'Bryon proposes that performance practice is both a self-reflexive mode of knowledge, and one in which meaning arises in the interplay of subjects, activity and environment. This idea resonates strongly with cognitive neuroscience’s concept of enactivism, and is illustrated by contributions from a wide array of disciplines. These support Bryon’s contention that the scholarship of performance studies imposes irrelevant criteria on "performance" to make it a static object of study, while neglecting its embodied meaning in process.'
    Rick Kemp, Head of Acting and Directing, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and author of Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance