This book investigates alternative ways of working between cultural, artistic, and intellectual spaces in an era when the reality of globalisation imposes on our world view. Essays by leading performance scholars in Australia, Japan and USA are inspired by the Journey to Con-Fusion project; a collaboration between Tokyo s Gekidan Kaitaisha and Melbourne s Not Yet It s Difficult performance groups. Discussed in Alternatives are issues of cultural politics; intercultural exchange; representation and interpretation of contemporary performance; dramaturgical analysis; and readings...

From the 1980s into the early 2000s, the Japanese group Dumb Type mounted multimedia performances that broke substantial new ground in new media dramaturgy and influenced countless performers to follow. This book gathers essays on the group's work, achievement, and influence, analyzing such key works as S/N, which marked the first time a major Japanese artwork staged a debate around the politics of sexuality and difference. Other major works, including pH, OR, and memorandum, are discussed in detail, and contributors also attend to more recent works by individual dumb...

This exciting new book identifies and examines those changes to live performance occasioned by the rise of digital media in contemporary theatre aesthetics. Formulating a new framework for both analyzing and creating contemporary new media performance including multimedia theatre and dance, video performance and installation, the book also explores how the synthesis of new dramaturgy and new media has changed the experience of live arts for the spectator. Drawing on case studies from artists and works including dumb type, The Wooster Group and Blast Theory, amongst others, the book will be of...