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Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances: Commit Yourself! book cover

1st Edition

Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances Commit Yourself!

Edited By Doris Kolesch, Theresa Schütz, Sophie Nikoleit Copyright 2019
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge
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At present, we are witnessing a significant transformation of established forms of spectatorship in theatre, performance art and beyond. In particular, immersive and participatory forms of theatre allow audiences and performers to interact in a shared performance space. 　 Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances discusses forms and concepts of contemporary spectatorship and explores... Read more

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  1. Immersion and Spectatorship at the Interface of Theatre, Media Tech and Daily Life: An Introduction




    2. Doris Kolesch





Part I: Mobile Audiences







  • Unexpected Encounter. On Installation Art as Immersive Space




    • Barbara Gronau







  • Doggies, Masters and the End of the European Union. On Immersive Theatre Installations by SIGNA and Thomas Bellinck




    • Benjamin Wihstutz







  • On the Impossibility of Being Together




    • A conversation between performance artist Signa Köstler and Theresa Schütz







  • Bordering and Shattering the Stage: Mobile Audiences as Compositional Forces




    • Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink







  • Structures of Spectatorship




    • Kerstin Schankweiler





    Part II: Researching Spectatorship







  • Keep it real




    • A conversation between performance artist Julian Hetzel and Theresa Schütz







  • Participatory Audiencing and the Committed Return




    • Matthew Reason







  • Immersive Art – Immersive Research?




    • Stefanie Husel







  • Parsing ‘Commitment’: The Multiple Valences of Spectatorship




    • Janelle Reinelt







  • The Case for Empirical Audience Research




    • Antje Kahl





    Part III: Questions of Power – Politics of Affect in Immersive Performances







  • Feminism, Audience Interaction, and Performer Authority




    • Jen Harvie







  • The Promise of Participation Revisited: Affective Strategies of Participation




    • Gareth White







  • Capturing complexity while being pressed for time




    • A conversation between scenographer Mona el Gammal and Theresa Schütz







  • Immersive Guilt Factories




    • Theresa Schütz







  • Dark Immersion. Some thoughts on SIGNA’s Wir Hunde/Us Dogs






      • Rainer Mühlhoff





      　



      　

      Biography

      Doris Kolesch is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies and a co-director of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC)  "Affective Societies" at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.



      Theresa Schütz is a theatre scholar and research assistant working in the CRC "Affective Societies" at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.





      Sophie Nikoleit is a theatre scholar and research assistant working in the CRC "Affective Societies" at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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