Identity, Performance and Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Susan Broadhurst, Josephine Machon

      Pages 1-4

3. Identities — New Epistemologies and Ontologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Improvising Artists, Embodied Technology and Emergent Techniques

      • Andrew Bucksbarg, Selene Carter

      Pages 7-23

   3. Shifting Listening Identities – Towards a Fluidity of Form in Digital Music

      • Franziska Schroeder

      Pages 24-43

   4. Art as Eudaimonia: Embodied Identities and the Return Beat

      • Olu Taiwo

      Pages 44-59

   5. Graeae: An Aesthetic of Access — (De)Cluttering the Clutter

      • Jenny Sealey, Carissa Hope Lynch

      Pages 60-73

4. (Ex)Posing Identity — Embodied Art Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Woven Bodies, Woven Cultures

      • Ghislaine Boddington

      Pages 77-90

   3. Pina

      • Susan Broadhurst

      Pages 91-110

   4. Experiential Identities in the Work of Marisa Carnesky

      • Josephine Machon

      Pages 111-125

   5. Lynn Hershman and the Creation of Multiple Robertas

      • Roberta Mock

      Pages 126-141

5. Empowerment/Disempowerment in Digital Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. (be)longing: A Case Study of Recording and Representation

      • Leslie Hill

      Pages 145-159

   3. Pluralistic Presence: Practising Embodiment with My Avatar

      • Sita Popat, Kelly Preece

      Pages 160-174

   4. The Silent Screen/Scream: A Sensual Exploration of the Interior/Exterior Screens of the (Dis)Closing Subject

      • Paul Woodward

      Pages 175-192

6. Blurring the Boundaries: The Delimited Self

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Below the Surface

      • Helen Paris

      Pages 195-207

   3. Stelarc’s Mystical Body

      • Charlie Gere

      Pages 208-219

   4. Borderless Bodies — The Cellulardata Body

      • Hellen Sky

      Pages 220-231

This project investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance, opening up a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices and considering how identity is formed, de-formed, blurred and celebrated within diverse approaches to technological performance practice.

• access
• corpus
• culture
• identity
• music
• performance
• project
• recording
• subject

'...this is an important addition to the material on performance and technology and its impact on embodied performance practices. In its ambition and scope this volume will be of interest to those concerned with somatic practice and the range of emergent thinking and multiple impacts of digital technologies deployed in contemporary performance.' - Scott Palmer, New Theatre Quarterly

'...a solid collection of interesting and insightful case studies of performance events and practices incorporating media technologies.' - David Z. Saltz, Theatre Journal

'This book has something to offer those interested in the confluence of performance and technology from practitioners to scholars of all levels, as well as those outside the academy with an active interest in this type of performance work.' - Sophie Lally, Contemporary Theatre Review

GHISLAINE BODDINGTON Independent scholar, UK ANDREW BUCKSBARG Independent scholar, UK SELENE CARTER Lecturer in Contemporary Dance, Indiana University, USA CHARLIE GERE Head of Department and Reader in New Media Research, Lancaster University, UK LESLIE HILL Associate Professor of Performance Making, Stanford University, USA CARISSA HOPE-LYNCH Literary Officer with Graeae Theatre Company, UK ROBERTA MOCK Professor of Performance Studies and Director of the Arts & Humanities Doctoral Training Centre, Plymouth University, UK HELEN PARIS Professor of Drama, Stanford University, USA SITA POPAT Lecturer of Dance, Theatre and Performance, University of Leeds, UK KELLY PREECE Research Associate in Dance, University of Leeds, UK THECLA SCHIPHORST Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada FRANZISKA SCHROEDER Lecturer/RCUK Fellow, School of Creative Arts, Queen's University Belfast, UK HELLEN SKY Post Graduate Candidate, SIAL RMIT, Australia OLU TAIWO Senior Lecturer, University of Winchester, UK PAUL WOODWARD Independent scholar, UK

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