Embodiment and Disembodiment in Live Art: From Grotowski to Hologram

ISBN-13: 9781032082943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str.

Ke Shi

Opis

The book explores contemporary live-art practices from both practical and theoretical perspectives. While offering a new interpretation model for the human-material in live genres, an ecological paradigm for performance art, experimental theatre and live art is successfully provided.

Spis treści

List of figures.  Introduction  Chapter 1 Embodiment: Self and Subjectivity  Chapter 2 Actualisation, Contingency and Journey to the Unknown  Chapter 3 Landscape as the Lifeworld  Chapter 4 Disembodiment in Materiality  Chapter 5 Disembodiment in its Semiotic Sense  Chapter 6 Two Extremes of Disembodiment: Cyborgs and Holograms  References.  Index

O autorze

Shi Ke, poet, theatre and performance maker. He is the Associate Artist at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol and Guest Professor at Nanjing University. His research interests include contemporary performance, experimental theatre and transcultural practice.