Being an audience participant can be a confusing and contradictory experience. When a performance requires us to do things, we are put in the situation of being both actor and spectator, of being part of the work of art while also being the audience who receives it, and of being both perceiving subject and aesthetic object. This book examines these contradictions – and many others – as they appear by accident and by design in increasingly popular forms of interactive, immersive, and participatory performance in theatre and live art.
Borrowing concepts from cognitive philosophy and bringing them into a conversation with critical theory, Gareth White sharply examines meaning as a process that happens to us as we are engaged in the problems and negotiations of a participatory performance.
This study will be of great interest to scholars and students of theatre and performance, intermedial arts and games studies, and to practising artists.
By:
Gareth White
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9780367142308
ISBN 10: 0367142309
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 19 December 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Watching, doing, meaning Contradiction 1: Watching Contradiction 2: Action Contradiction 3: Body 2 Other people/other things Contradiction 4: Object Contradiction 5: Affect Contradiction 6: Play 3 Autonomy/Identity Contradiction 7: Authenticity Contradiction 8: Mediation Contradiction 9: Identity Conclusion. Culture, crisis, aesthetics Contradiction 10: Culture Contradiction 11: A Post Covid Coda Index
Gareth White is Reader in Theatre and Performance at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK.
