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Projects / Intermediality in theatre and performance
The research working group Intermediality in Theatre and Performance was founded under auspices of the International Federation for Theatre Research in 1998.
The current working group published Intermediality in Theatre and Performance, edited by Freda Chapple and Chiel Kattenbelt (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006). As the name of the working group and their book implies, group members examine theatre and performance in the context of other media from an intermedial perspective. Working from the idea that theatre provides the staging space for intermedial performances, the group examines the proliferation of texts, medial spaces and intermedial relationships created when the live medium of theatre and the performing arts intersect with cinema, television and, in particular, digital technology.
Members of the group share examples of innovative intermedial performances in order to assess the impact of, for example, digital technology on theatre practice or compare ideas about how current trends in theatrical or cinematic performances blur clear-cut boundaries between media. Although theatre and performance is our starting point, we mingle with other art forms and media in discussing the new phenomenon of intermedial performance in theory and practice, and its impact on theatre practice and learning.
UPCOMING EVENT
The working group presents the second publication during the IFTR Conference in Munich, July 2010: Mapping Intermediality in Performance, edited by Sarah Bay-Cheng, Andy Lavender, Chiel Kattenbelt and Robin Nelson. With contributions of several members of the group and guest authors, including members of our academic staff, this book discusses emerging themes and concepts, connected with each other as nodes and portals in a network, and encourages a deeper understanding of intermediality in performance, in particular with regards to performance in today's digital culture.
Mapping Intermediality in Performance traces the multiple interrelationships and transformational interplays between digital media and the performance arts. The book approaches these movement through five portals: performativity and the body; time and space; digital culture and posthumanism; networks; pedagogy and praxis. These portals in turn provide access to a range of related nodes: modes of experience, dimensions, actuality-virtuality and interrelations. These nodes are clusters of theoretical key concepts and 'instances' of praxis; the practices range from internationally operating companies, makers and events (The Builders Association, Castelluci, Castorg, Gob Squad, Lepage, Second Life and VJing) to insiders' perspectives based on practice-based research.
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Related links
Information about the book on the website of Amsterdam University Press
Information about the book at Rodopi's website
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