A performance cosmology : testimony from the future, evidence of the past /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Description:xi, 321 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6216965
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Other authors / contributors:Gough, Richard, 1956-
Christie, Judie.
Watt, Daniel Peter.
ISBN:0415372585 (pbk.)
9780415372589 (pbk.)
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Plotting a Course, or Impossible Beginnings
  • 1. Intimate Conversations
  • Ways of working with the Centre for Performance Research
  • On Ways of Working: A View from the Bridge
  • Tools for Conviviality
  • Ways of Working: Eight things I know now that I didn't know before
  • Eye and Ear, Foot and Mouth: Mapping performance in three journeys and one withdrawal
  • Express Trains: Working at CPR
  • A Family Affair
  • The Nature and Culture of Performance
  • Philoxenia: The Host as Parasite
  • A Little Big Boots: On participating in Summer Shift 2004
  • Performances of Truth
  • Singing Praise
  • Pro-found and Impossible
  • And before I know it
  • Ways of Working: Ten Fragments from Sixteen Years of Interaction
  • The Courage to Create: Food, Alchemy, Objects and Performance
  • 2. Testimony from the Future
  • Field Station dispatches and soundings Towards Tomorrow
  • The Field Stations: Ways of Reading
  • A River of Senses and a Touch of Otherness
  • Declaration of Poetic Disobedience
  • Rupture
  • Interactive Environments and Digital Perception
  • AnimalCam: Ocularcentrism and Non-Human Performance
  • Global Feeling: (Almost) All You Need Is Love
  • Writing (After) the Event: Notes on Appearance, Passage and Hope
  • The Scribes of Merlin (An obscure lecture)
  • What I Can't Recall
  • Stones in the Mind
  • Marking Time
  • Aporias of Ekphrasis: The Performance Archive - Archiving the Performance
  • Legwork - Thinking Showing Doing
  • Who Knows - and who cares - about performance mastery (?)
  • Incomplete Alphabet
  • Hounded Buildings: Site, performance and traumatic memory
  • The Memory of Promise: Theatre and the Ethic of the Future
  • Open Wounds
  • Ramblers Associations Witness/scopophilia/aprosexia/sight
  • Dear Friends and Family
  • Witnessing the Witness
  • The Effect Produced
  • Writing of the Event
  • An untenable identity formation: Eleutheria in eight parts
  • Eleutheromania: Performance Art and the War on Terror
  • Deleria/Nostalgia; Time, Space, Topography
  • Arrested Life: A Sadness Without an Object
  • Delirium: Nostalgia, Theatre and Public Space
  • Why there is Wind: Power, Trees, Performance
  • Towards Tomorrow: Forward
  • Towards Tomorrow? Processing the Limits of Performance into the Real of Time
  • Towards Tomorrow? Restoring Disciplinary Limits and Rehearsals in Time?
  • 3. Evidence of the Past
  • For the record, and with the benefit of hindsight
  • From the Laboratory to the Centre: History, Training, the Academy and the Book
  • Perfect Time : Imperfect Tense
  • Bibliophobia : An Oneiric Fable
  • Circumstantial Evidence
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Photography Acknowledgements and Illustration Sources