Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances: Commit Yourself!

ISBN-13: 9780367729295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str.

Doris Kolesch; Theresa Schütz; Sophie Nikoleit

Opis

Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances discusses forms and concepts of contemporary spectatorship and explores various modes of audience participation in theory as well as in practice.

Spis treści

List of figures

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List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Funding note

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







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

　

　

O autorze

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.