The Poetics of Performance Diagrams

The Poetics of Performance Diagrams

Author: Andrej Mirčev

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-06-30

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1009446258

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This Element considers the concept of performance diagrams and shows their historical, epistemic and aesthetic functions in theatre and dance. In three sections, the author surveys the architectural model of theatre by Vitruvius, the woodcut of Marlow's Doctor Faustus, Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne-Atlas, the spells and drawings of Antonin Artaud, the performance Paradise Now (the Living Theatre) and the choreography I am 1984 (Barbara Matijević). Demonstrating that diagrams can be applied to multiply dramaturgical trajectories, the text reviews their relevance for performance-making, analysis and documentation. The author argues that diagrams provide new tools for theory, practice and archiving, while at the same time enabling reflection on the intersections between poetics and politics. Focusing on the potentiality of diagrams to cut through representation and dichotomies, this Element affirms the visual, corporeal and spatial dimensions of performance-making. In doing so, it elucidates the significance of diagrammatic thinking for performance studies.


Undeclared

Undeclared

Author: Chris Higgins

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2024-05-14

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 0262377616

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An imaginative tour of the contemporary university as it could be: a place to discover self-knowledge, meaning, and purpose. What if college were not just a means of acquiring credentials, but a place to pursue our formation as whole persons striving to lead lives of meaning and purpose? In Undeclared, Chris Higgins confronts the contemporary university in a bid to reclaim a formative mission for higher education. In a series of searching essays and pointed interludes, Higgins challenges us to acknowledge how far our practices have drifted from our ideals, asking: What would it look like to build a college from the ground up to support self-discovery and personal integration? What does it mean to be a public university, and are there any left? How can the humanities help the job-ified university begin to take vocation seriously? Cutting through the underbrush of received ideas, Higgins follows the insight where it leads, clearing a path from the corporate multiversity to the renaissance in higher education that was Black Mountain College and back again. Along the way, we tour a campus bent on becoming a shopping mall, accompany John Dewey through a midlife crisis, and witness the first "happening.” Through diverse and grounded philosophical engagements, Undeclared assembles the resources to expand the contemporary educational imagination.


New Directions in Digital Poetry

New Directions in Digital Poetry

Author: C.T. Funkhouser

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-01-19

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1441115919

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Examines a range of innovative practices and processes in digital poetry published on the global computer network during the past decade.


Live Poetry

Live Poetry

Author: Julia Novak

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9401206929

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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Key Challenges for the Scholar of Live Poetry -- Towards a Definition of Live Poetry -- Analysing Live Poetry -- Audiotext -- Body Communication -- Contextualising the Performance -- Jackie Hagan's “Coffee or Tea?”: A Sample Analysis -- Checklist for the Analysis of Live Poetry Performances -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Table of Figures -- Index.


Ancient Greek and Contemporary Performance

Ancient Greek and Contemporary Performance

Author: Professor Graham Ley

Publisher: Royal College of General Practitioners

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0859899640

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This collection of published and unpublished essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current prohibiting conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version of ‘the contemporary’. The theatre is attractive for its history and also for its lively present. These essays explore aspects of historical performance in ancient Greece, and link thoughts on its significance to wider reflections on cultural theory from around the world and performance in the contemporary postmodern era, concluding with ideas on the new theatre of the diaspora. Each section of the book includes a short introduction; the essays and shorter interventions take various forms, but all are concerned with theatre, with practical aspects of theatre and theoretical dimensions of its study. The subjects range from ancient Greece to the present day, and include speculations on the origin of ancient tragic acting, the kinds of festival performance in ancient Athens, how performance is reflected in the tragic scripts, the significance of the presence of the chorus, technology and the ancient theatre, comparative thinking on Greek, Indian and Japanese theory, a critique of the rhetoric of performance theory and of postmodernism, reflections on modernism and theatre, and on the importance of adaptation to theatre, studies of the theatre and diaspora in Britain.


The Poetics of the Mind's Eye

The Poetics of the Mind's Eye

Author: Christopher Collins

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1991-10

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780812213607

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The heart of this study consists of Collins's application of six "cognitive modes" of reading: perception, retrospection, assertion, introspection, expectation, and judgment. In addition, Collins considers the impact of the movement from oral to print-literate culture.


Poetic Operations

Poetic Operations

Author: micha cárdenas

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2021-12-13

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1478022272

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In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cárdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets of instructions designed to perform specific tasks (like a recipe), she breaks them into their component parts, called operations. By focusing on these operations, cárdenas identifies how trans and gender-non-conforming artists, especially artists of color, rewrite algorithms to counter violence and develop strategies for liberation. In her analyses of Giuseppe Campuzano's holographic art, Esdras Parra's and Kai Cheng Thom's poetry, Mattie Brice's digital games, Janelle Monáe's music videos, and her own artistic practice, cárdenas shows how algorithmic analysis provides new modes of understanding the complex processes of identity and oppression and the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race.


Performance Theory

Performance Theory

Author: Richard Schechner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1134379447

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This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies.


Performance

Performance

Author: Marvin Carlson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780415137034

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An overview on the modern concept of performance