Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances

Commit Yourself!

Doris Kolesch, Theresa Schütz, Sophie Nikoleit (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-18796-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Funding note

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

Part I: Mobile Audiences

Unexpected Encounter. On Installation Art as Immersive Space
Barbara Gronau

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

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

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

Structures of Spectatorship
Kerstin Schankweiler

Part II: Researching Spectatorship

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

Participatory Audiencing and the Committed Return
Matthew Reason

Immersive Art – Immersive Research?
Stefanie Husel

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

The Case for Empirical Audience Research
Antje Kahl

Part III: Questions of Power – Politics of Affect in Immersive Performances

Feminism, Audience Interaction, and Performer Authority
Jen Harvie

The Promise of Participation Revisited: Affective Strategies of Participation
Gareth White

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

Immersive Guilt Factories
Theresa Schütz

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

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Affective Societies
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white; 42 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	0-367-18796-5 / 0367187965
ISBN-13	978-0-367-18796-5 / 9780367187965
Zustand	Neuware