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Performance and Posthumanism

Staging Prototypes of Composite Bodies

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Editors:
  1. Christel Stalpaert

    1. Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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  2. Kristof van Baarle

    1. University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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  3. Laura Karreman

    1. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  • Explores the relation between posthumanism and the performing arts and how insights from both fields might benefit from each other
  • Analyses the posthumanist condition in relation to the performing arts
  • Brings together renowned scholars and artists to share their ideas and work

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Performance and Posthumanism: Co-Creation, Response-Ability and Epistemologies

    • Christel Stalpaert, Kristof van Baarle, Laura Karreman
    Pages 1-47

  3. Co-creation with Thingly Matter: Dramaturgies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. 9 Variations on Things and Performance

      • André Lepecki
      Pages 51-59

    3. Does the Donkey Act? Balthazar as Protagonist

      • Maximilian Haas
      Pages 61-79

    4. Latent Performances. Conditions for Some Things to Happen

      • Daniel Blanga Gubbay
      Pages 81-91

    5. Aesthetics of Mykorrhiza. The Practice of Apparatus

      • Stefanie Wenner
      Pages 93-109

    6. On Composite Bodies and New Media Dramaturgy

      • Peter Eckersall, Kris Verdonck
      Pages 111-124

  4. Response-Ability in Thingly Variations: Politics and Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Decoding Effet Papillon, a Choreography for Three Dancers Inspired by the World of Video Games

      • Mylène Benoit, Philippe Guisgand
      Pages 127-136

    3. The Refrain and the Territory of the Posthuman

      • Aline Wiame
      Pages 137-152

    4. The Right to Remain Forgotten and the Data Crimes of Post-digital Culture: A Ceaseless Traumatic Event

      • Matthew Causey
      Pages 153-169

    5. 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
      Pages 171-194

    6. Tentacular Thinking-With-Things in Storied Places. Parliament of Things (2019) by Building Conversation

      • Christel Stalpaert
      Pages 195-233

  5. Posthuman Epistemologies: The Politics of Knowledge Transmission

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. The Point of the Matter: Performativity in Scientific Practices

      • Maaike Bleeker, Jean Paul Van Bendegem
      Pages 237-260

    3. Music Notation and Distributed Creativity: The Textility of Score Annotation

      • Emily Payne, Floris Schuiling
      Pages 261-286

    4. Spectators in the Laboratory: Between Theatre and Technoscience

      • Mateusz Borowski, Mateusz Chaberski, MaÅ‚gorzata Sugiera
      Pages 287-313

    5. A Hybrid Device to Choreograph the Gaze: Embodying Vision Through a Historical Discourse on Optics in Benjamin Vandewalle’s Peri-Sphere

      • Dieter Brusselaers, Helena Julian
      Pages 315-335

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 337-352
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About this book

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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Christel Stalpaert

  • University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Kristof van Baarle

  • Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Laura Karreman

About the editors

Christel Stalpaert is Professor of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the Art Studies Department at Ghent University, Belgium. She is director of the research centre S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media) and co-founder of CoDa | Cultures of Dance – Research Network for Dance Studies.


Kristof van Baarle is post-doctoral researcher at the Research Centre for Visual Poetics, Antwerp University, Belgium. As a dramaturg, he works with Kris Verdonck and Michiel Vandevelde.Together with Verdonck, he is conducting an artistic research project on Samuel Beckett and Noh at KASK – School of Arts, Belgium.


Laura Karreman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, where she teaches on the BA Media and Culture, the MA Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy, and the RMA Media,Art and Performance Studies courses.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Performance and Posthumanism

  • Book Subtitle: Staging Prototypes of Composite Bodies

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74745-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74744-2Published: 03 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74747-3Published: 04 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74745-9Published: 02 September 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 352

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Performing Arts, Performers and Practitioners, Modern Philosophy, Ontology

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