Anatomy live : performance and the operating theatre /

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Imprint:	[Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	MediaMatters MediaMatters.
Subject:	Performance art -- Congresses. Theater -- History -- Congresses. Theater -- Philosophy -- Congresses. Performance art Theater Theater -- Philosophy Conference papers and proceedings History Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11285749

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Other authors / contributors:	Bleeker, Maaike.
ISBN:	9789048501229 9048501229 9789053565162 9053565167 9053565167 9789053565162 1282171259 9781282171251
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Selected papers presented at the conference "The Anatomical Theatre Revisited" in 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Anatomy Live demonstrates how the implications of the history of anatomical theatre can be seen at work in the appearance of dancing and acting bodies on stage.
Other form:	Print version: 9789053565162

Table of Contents:

Prologue : men with glass bodies
Introduction
Performance documentation 1 : Holoman; Digital cadaver
Digital cadavers and virtual dissection
'Who were you?' : the visible and the visceral
Performance documentation 2 : excavations : fresh but rotten
The anatomy lesson of Professor Moxham
'Be not faithless but believing' : illusion and doubt in the anatomy theatre
Performance documentation 3 : De Anatomische Les
Of dissection and technologies of culture in actor training programs : an example from 1960s West Germany
Ocular anatomy, chiasm, and theatre architecture as a material phenomenology in early modern Europe
Performance documentation 4 : Camillo ; Memo 4.0 : the cabinet of memories ; A tear donnor session
Martin, Massumi, and the matrix
Performance documentation 5 : sensing presence no. 1 : performing a hyperlink system
'Where are you now?': locating the body in contemporary performance
Performance documentation 6 : Under my skin
Anatomies of live art
Performance documentation 7 : Crash
Restaging the monstrous
Delirium of the flesh : 'all the dead voices' in the space of the now
Performance documentation 8 : Körper
Operating theatres : body-bits and a post-apartheid aesthetics.
Acknowledgements; Prologue Men with Glass Bodies; Introduction; Performance Documentation 1: Holoman; Digital Cadaver; Digital Cadavers and Virtual Dissection; 'Who Were You?': The Visible and the Visceral; Performance Documentation 2: Excavations : Fresh but Rotten; The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Moxham; 'Be not faithless but believing': Illusion and Doubt in the Anatomy Theatre; Performance Documentation 3: De Anatomische Les; Of Dissection and Technologies of Culture in Actor Training Programs
an Example from 1960s West Germany.
Ocular Anatomy, Chiasm, and Theatre Architecture as a Material Phenomenologyin Early Modern EuropePerformance Documentation 4: Camillo
Memo 4.0: The Cabinet of Memories
A Tear Donnor Session; Martin, Massumi, and The Matrix; Performance Documentation 5: sensing presence no. 1: performing a hyperlink system; 'Where Are You Now?': Locating the Body in Contemporary Performance; Performance Documentation 6: Under My Skin; Anatomies of Live Art; Performance Documentation 7: Crash; Restaging the Monstrous; Delirium of the Flesh: 'All the Dead Voices' in the Space of the Now.
Performance Documentation 8: KörperOperating Theatres: Body-bits and a Post-apartheid Aesthetics; Index.

Anatomy live : performance and the operating theatre /

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