Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances: Commit Yourself!

At present, we are witnessing a significant transformation of established forms of spectatorship in theatre, performance art and beyond. In particular, immersive and participatory forms of theatre allow audiences and performers to interact in a shared performance space.



 



Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances discusses forms and concepts of contemporary spectatorship and explores various modes of audience participation in theory as well as in practice. The volume also reflects on what new terms and methods must be developed in order to address the theoretical challenges of contemporary immersive performances.



 



Split into three parts, Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances, respectively, focuses on various strategies for mobilising the audience, methodological questions for research on being a spectator in immersive and participatory forms of theatre, and thematising new modes of partaking and ways of spectating in contemporary art.



 



Poignantly capturing experiences that can be viewed as manifestations of affective relationality in the strongest possible sense, this volume will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Theatre and Performance Studies, Media Studies and Philosophy.

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Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances: Commit Yourself!

At present, we are witnessing a significant transformation of established forms of spectatorship in theatre, performance art and beyond. In particular, immersive and participatory forms of theatre allow audiences and performers to interact in a shared performance space.



 



Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances discusses forms and concepts of contemporary spectatorship and explores various modes of audience participation in theory as well as in practice. The volume also reflects on what new terms and methods must be developed in order to address the theoretical challenges of contemporary immersive performances.



 



Split into three parts, Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances, respectively, focuses on various strategies for mobilising the audience, methodological questions for research on being a spectator in immersive and participatory forms of theatre, and thematising new modes of partaking and ways of spectating in contemporary art.



 



Poignantly capturing experiences that can be viewed as manifestations of affective relationality in the strongest possible sense, this volume will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Theatre and Performance Studies, Media Studies and Philosophy.

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Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances: Commit Yourself!

Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances: Commit Yourself!

Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances: Commit Yourself!

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Overview

At present, we are witnessing a significant transformation of established forms of spectatorship in theatre, performance art and beyond. In particular, immersive and participatory forms of theatre allow audiences and performers to interact in a shared performance space.



 



Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances discusses forms and concepts of contemporary spectatorship and explores various modes of audience participation in theory as well as in practice. The volume also reflects on what new terms and methods must be developed in order to address the theoretical challenges of contemporary immersive performances.



 



Split into three parts, Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances, respectively, focuses on various strategies for mobilising the audience, methodological questions for research on being a spectator in immersive and participatory forms of theatre, and thematising new modes of partaking and ways of spectating in contemporary art.



 



Poignantly capturing experiences that can be viewed as manifestations of affective relationality in the strongest possible sense, this volume will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Theatre and Performance Studies, Media Studies and Philosophy.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367729295
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/18/2020
Series: Routledge Studies in Affective Societies
Pages: 222
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Doris Kolesch is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies and a co-director of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC)  "Affective Societies" at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.



Theresa Schütz is a theatre scholar and research assistant working in the CRC "Affective Societies" at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.





Sophie Nikoleit is a theatre scholar and research assistant working in the CRC "Affective Societies" at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Table of Contents

List of figures



List of tables



List of contributors



Acknowledgements



Funding note



  1. Immersion and Spectatorship at the Interface of Theatre, Media Tech and Daily Life: An Introduction
  2. Doris Kolesch

  3. Unexpected Encounter. On Installation Art as Immersive Space
  4. Barbara Gronau

  5. Doggies, Masters and the End of the European Union. On Immersive Theatre Installations by SIGNA and Thomas Bellinck
  6. Benjamin Wihstutz

  7. On the Impossibility of Being Together
  8. A conversation between performance artist Signa Köstler and Theresa Schütz

  9. Bordering and Shattering the Stage: Mobile Audiences as Compositional Forces
  10. Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink

  11. Structures of Spectatorship
  12. Kerstin Schankweiler

  13. Keep it real
  14. A conversation between performance artist Julian Hetzel and Theresa Schütz

  15. Participatory Audiencing and the Committed Return
  16. Matthew Reason

  17. Immersive Art – Immersive Research?
  18. Stefanie Husel

  19. Parsing ‘Commitment’: The Multiple Valences of Spectatorship
  20. Janelle Reinelt

  21. The Case for Empirical Audience Research
  22. Antje Kahl

  23. Feminism, Audience Interaction, and Performer Authority
  24. Jen Harvie

  25. The Promise of Participation Revisited: Affective Strategies of Participation
  26. Gareth White

  27. Capturing complexity while being pressed for time
  28. A conversation between scenographer Mona el Gammal and Theresa Schütz

  29. Immersive Guilt Factories
  30. Theresa Schütz

  31. Dark Immersion. Some thoughts on SIGNA’s Wir Hunde/Us Dogs
  32. Rainer Mühlhoff

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