Overview
Artistic media seem to be in a permanent condition of mutation and transformation. Contemporary artists often investigate the limits and possibilities of the media they use and experiment with the crossing, upgrading and mutilation of media. Others explicitly explore the unknown intermedial space between existing media, searching for the hybrid beings that occupy these in-betweens. This issue of Theater Topics explores the theme of mutating and adapting media in its relation with theatre and performance. Bringing together international scholars and artists, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the subject. Throughout, Bastard or Playmate? is responsive to the cross-disciplinary use of key concepts such as remediation, digitization, interactivity, corporeality, liveness, surveillance, spectacle, performativity and theatricality. The book guides readers new to the area of intermediality, as well as experienced researchers into one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship. Bastard or Playmate? Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and the Contemporary Performing Arts is the fifth issue of the series Theater Topics. This series contains publications about research in and about theatre, each issue giving a comprehensive overview of research concerning a specific topic. This issue contains contributions by Katia Arfara, Edwin Carels, Jeroen Coppens, Nancy Delhalle, Tom Engels, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Eva Heisler, Evelien Jonckheere, Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw, Elise Morrison, Marco Pustianaz, Frederik Le Roy, Anna Teresa Scheer, Klaas Tindemans, and Nele Wynants. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
Full Product Details
Author: Robrecht Vanderbeeken ,
Christel Stalpaert ,
David Depestel ,
Boris Debackere
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
Volume: 5
ISBN: 9789048513178
ISBN 10: 9048513170
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 06 April 2012
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Format: Electronic book text
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A rich volume that celebrates the political responsibility and potential of live performance that does not shy away from other media, but willingly embraces them to continuously mutate, and yet at the same time remains one of the most innovative and relevant art forms today. -- Dirk Gindt, Theatre Research International
Author Information
Robrecht Vanderbeeken is a postdctoral fellow at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University College Ghent.|Christel Stalpaert is professor of theatre, performance and media studies at Ghent University and co-director of the research Group S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media).|David Depestel is a freelance translator and editor Boris Debackere is a multimedia artist.
