Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Matthew Reason Anja Mølle Lindelof

Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Matthew Reason, Anja Mølle Lindelof

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Routledge
31 October 2016

Theatre Studies; Other performing arts

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience. The status and significance of the live in performance has become contested: perceived as variously as a marker of ontological difference, a promotional slogan, or a mystical evocation of cultural value. Moving beyond debates about the relationship between the live and the mediated, this collection considers what we can know and say about liveness in terms of processes of experiencing and processes of making. Drawing together contributions from theatre, music, dance, and performance art, it takes an interdisciplinary approach in asking not what liveness is, but how it matters and to whom.

The book invites readers to consider how liveness is produced through processes of audiencing - as spectators bring qualities of (a)liveness into being through the nature of their attention - and how it becomes materialized in acts of performance, acts of making, acts of archiving, and acts of remembering. Theoretical chapters and practice-based reflections explore liveness, eventness and nowness as key concepts in a range of topics such as affect, documentation, embodiment, fandom, and temporality, showing how the relationship between audience and event is rarely singular and more often malleable and multiple. With its focus on experiencing liveness, this collection will be of interest to disciplines including performance, audience and cultural studies, visual arts, cinema, and sound technologies.

Edited by: Matthew Reason, Anja Mølle Lindelof
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1.300kg
ISBN: 9781138961593
ISBN 10: 1138961590
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 31 October 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matthew Reason is Professor of Theatre and Performance at York St John University, UK. Anja Mølle Lindelof is Assistant Professor of Performance Design at Roskilde University, Denmark.