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1 online resource (305 pages) |
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Cover; Archaeologies of Presence; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Archaeologies of presence; Part I: Being here: Place and time; 2. How to defi ne presence effects: the work of Janet Cardiff; 3. Environmental presence; 4. Performance remains again; 5. Tension/release and the production of time in performance; Part II: Being before: Stage and gaze; 6. Appearing as embodied mind -- defi ning a weak, a strong and a radical concept of presence |
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7. ' ... presence ... ' as a question and emergent possibility: a case study from the performer's perspective8. Out-standing standing-within: being alone together in the work of Bodies in Flight; 9. Mis-spectatorship, or, 'redistributing the sensible'; 10. Looking back: a conversation about presence, 2006; Part III: Traces: After presence; 11. Temporal anxiety/'Presence' in Absentia: experiencing performance as documentation; 12. Here and now; 13. Photographic presence: time and the image; 14. Neither here nor there ... : let's talk about adult matters ... ; Index |
| Summary |
Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:What are the principle signifiers of theatrical presence? How is presence achieved through theatrical performance? What makes a memory come alive and live again? How i |
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Print version record |
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Performance art.
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Performing arts.
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performing arts (discipline)
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Performance art
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Performing arts
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaye, Nick
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Shanks, Michael
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| ISBN |
9780203126738 |
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0203126734 |
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