The emergence of infratactility in live performing arts
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation investigates how contemporary theater and aesthetic performance engage the five senses of both performers and spectators by evoking a feeling of primordial tactility of the human species (regarded both phylogenetically and ontogenetically). More specifically, it seeks out art works that deploy what media theorist Mark Hansen calls "infratactility, " pieces in which the body functions as the framer of information and the "coprocessor" of digital information. Digital coding that has become so prevalent in our lives and art practices simultaneously endanger and enrich the often fragile and elusive material world we tend to think of as live theatrical performance. In analyzing recent live performance works that implement the use of the theremin, robot-administered ingestion, smell-art and contact improvisation or those that − for the first time in the history of theater − were made specifically for (and with) infants, the goal of the dissertation is to suggest the ways live performance responds to the unprecedented threat of total irrelevance that humans face now that their bodies are no longer able to keep pace with the speed of technical vision. The author argues that the performance strategies he discusses serve the recent live performance in reinforcing perceptuomotor activities and expanding the range of perception well beyond the organic-physiological constraints of human embodiment.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Matic, Ljubisa |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Primary advisor | Jakovljević, Branislav |
| Primary advisor | Phelan, Margaret, (Barrister) |
| Primary advisor | Rayner, Alice |
| Thesis advisor | Jakovljević, Branislav |
| Thesis advisor | Phelan, Margaret, (Barrister) |
| Thesis advisor | Rayner, Alice |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ljubisa Matic. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2013 |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2013 by Ljubisa Matic
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