Performance and posthumanism : Staging prototypes of composite bodies 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Stalpaert, Christel
• van Baarle, Kristof
• Karreman, Laura

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030747459

Series

Subject(s)

• ONTOLOGY
• POSTHUMANISM
• THEATER AND PHILOSOPHY

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Abstract

Recent technological and scientific developments have demonstrated a condition that has already long been upon us. We have entered a posthuman era, an assertion shared by an increasing number of thinkers such as N. Katherine Hayles, Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Richard Grusin, and Bernard Stiegler. The performing arts have reacted to these developments by increasingly opening up their traditionally ‘human’ domain to non-human others. Both philosophy and performing arts thus question what it means to be human from a posthumanist point of view and how the agency of non-humans – be they technology, objects, animals, or other forms of being – ‘works’ on both an ontological and performative level. The contributions in this volume brings together scholars, dramaturgs, and artists, uniting their reflections on the consequences of the posthuman condition for creative practices, spectatorship, and knowledge.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xxi, 352 p.)

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Performance and Posthumanism: Co-Creation, Response-ability and Epistemologies; Christel Stalpaert, Kristof van Baarle and Laura Karreman
2. 9 variations on things and performance; Andre Lepecki
3. Does the donkey act? Balthazar as protagonist; Maximilian Haas
4. Latent Performances. Conditions for some things to happen; Daniel Blanga-Gubbay
5. Aesthetics of Mykorrhiza. The practice of Apparatus; Stefenie Wenner
6. On Composite Bodies and New Media Dramaturgy; Peter Eckersall and Kris Verdonck
7. Decoding Effet Papillon, choreography for three dancers inspired by the world of video games; Mylene Benoit and Philippe Guisgand
8. The refrain and the territory of the posthuman; Aline Wiame
9. The right to remain forgotten and the data crimes of post-digital culture: a ceaseless traumatic event; Matthew Causey
10. The Biography of a Digital Device. The Interwovenness of Human and Non-Human Movements in Production and Distribution Processes as thematized in the Artwork Rare Earthenware by Unknown Fields; Martina Ruhsam
11. Tentacular Thinking-With-Things in Storied Places. Parliament of Things (2019) by Building Conversation; Christel Stalpaert
12. The Point of the Matter: Performativity in Scientific Practices; Maaike Bleeker and Jean Paul Van Bendegem
13. Music Notation and Distributed Creativity: The Textility of Score Annotation; Emily Payne and Floris Schuiling
14. Spectators in the laboratory: between theatre and technoscience; Mateusz Borowski, Mateusz Chaberski, Magorzata Sugiera
15. A Hybrid Device to Choreograph the Gaze: Embodying Vision through a Historical Discourse on Optics in Benjamin Vandewalles Peri-Sphere; Helena Julian and Dieter Brusselaers

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