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Interfaces of Performance
This collection of essays and interviews investigates current practices that expand our understanding and experience of performance through the use of state-of-the-art technologies. It brings together leading practitioners, writers and curators who explore the intersections between theatre, performance and digital technologies, challenging expectations and furthering discourse across the disciplines. As technologies become increasingly integrated into theatre and performance, Interfaces of Performance revisits key elements of performance practice in order to investigate emergent paradigms. To do this five concepts integral to the core of all performance are foregrounded, namely environments, bodies, audiences, politics of practice and affect. The thematic structure of the volume has been designed to extend current discourse in the field that is often led by formalist analysis focusing on technology per se. The proposed approach intends to unpack conceptual elements of performance practice, investigating the strategic use of a diverse spectrum of technologies as a means to artistic ends. The focus is on the ideas, objectives and concerns of the artists who integrate technologies into their work. In so doing, these inquisitive practitioners research new dramaturgies and methodologies in order to create innovative experiences for, and encounters with, their audiences.
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Lived Lives: A Pavee Perspective. An arts-science community intervention around suicide in an indigenous ethnic minority
Background: Suicide is a significant public health concern, which impacts on health outcomes. Few suicide research studies have been interdisciplinary. We combined a psychobiographical autopsy with a visual arts autopsy, in which families donated stories, images and objects associated with the lived life of a loved one lost to suicide. From this interdisciplinary research platform, a mediated exhibition was created ( Lived Lives ) with artist, scientist and families, co-curated by communities, facilitating dialogue, response and public action around suicide prevention. Indigenous ethnic minorities (IEMs) bear a significant increased risk for suicide. Irish Travellers are an IEM with social and cultural parallels with IEMs internationally, experiencing racism, discrimination, and poor health outcomes including elevated suicide rates (SMR 6.6). Methods: An adjusted Lived Lives exhibition, Lived Lives: A Pavee Perspective manifested in Pavee Point, the national Traveller and Roma Centre. The project was evaluated by the Travelling Community as to how it related to suicide in their community, how it has shaped their understanding of suicide and its impacts, and its relevance to other socio-cultural contexts, nationally and internationally. The project also obtained feedback from all relevant stakeholders. Evaluation was carried out by an international visual arts research advisor and an independent observer from the field of suicide research. Results: Outputs included an arts-science mediated exhibition with reference to elevated Irish Traveller suicide rates. Digital online learning materials about suicide and its aftermath among Irish Travellers were also produced. The project reached its target audience, with a high level of engagement from members of the Travelling Community. Discussion: The Lived Lives methodology navigated the societal barriers of stigma and silence to foster communication and engagement, working with cultural values, consistent with an adapted intervention. Feedback from this project can inform awareness, health promotion, education and interventions around suicide and its aftermath in IEMs.
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Quilts 1700-2010
A review of an exhibition of mainly British contemporary and historic quilts showing at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), London, U.K, March 20 - July 4 2010. The exhibition showed quiltmaking arranged thematically and in a social, political and historical context.
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Around the World in 80 Biennials
This chapter explores the significance of the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennial (LITB) through to the inception of the first Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art and the impact on contemporary practices and the platforms for their circulation. It seeks to understand the position of such eventsin relation to globalization and, within it, the potential interrelations and cross‐influences that textiles has on art and vice versa, as art and textile redefine their boundaries of medium and ontologies. As histories of cultural practice are expanded and redrawn, both West and East, textile proves itself to be a potent artistic medium, especially in redefining the role of art in society and approaching issues of social imaginaries and the politics of exclusion that define gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. Initiated in 1997, the Kaunas Biennial has extended its artistic and curatorial interests to become an event for contemporary art in Europe.
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Pattern, patterning
From the simplest spirals cut out of paper, to experimenting with materials to look at mathematical Fibonacci sequences and geometry, to three-dimensional computer programming, pattern excites. Consisting of regularly repeated units, as in a textile quilt, pattern can be a repeat, a motif, a design, a device, a numerical order, or a succession of tones or steps, as in music or dance. There are patterns of behaviour, genealogical patterns, patterned design, grid pattern, fan pattern, patterns of growth, Islamic patterns, pattern books, mosaic pattern, Paisley pattern, weave pattern, coat pattern ... we live in a universe of patterns, as the American mathematician Ian Stewart puts it in Nature's Numbers:
Whilst human perception is not as perfect as mathematical ideals, people need patterns as a means of creative expression across time and space and as such patterns become devices, methods of investigating personal and social worlds. Pattern is both a noun and a verb but as a verb it is an active way of seeing the world, a process by which to take in and make coherent the random and often chaotic information the world has to offer.
(Stewart, 1998: 11)
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Wires and Wearables
The following sections are included:
Introduction
Wearable Computing
Cultural Implications
Technological Provocation
Conclusions
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Blurring the Boundaries
Allucquere Rosanne Stone combines film, linguistics, gender, cultural studies, and feminist theory. She has pioneered \"theoryperformance\" on cyberspace and the transhuman through a number of seminal publications. The difference between natural lighting and the new phantasmatic space opened by controlled artificial lighting represented a watershed. In one way it signalled the ascendancy of technology as a transformative tool in theatre. Over time, with new sources of power and deeper understanding of the uses of light and sound, it became easier to create more effective theatrical productions. Creating liminal moments being the goal of a good deal of ritual activity, starting off by removing ourselves far from the everyday moil seems obvious. In an imperfect time in which our job as practitioners of theatre as a therapeutic discipline is to use change to create change, perhaps the best we can do is to engage noise as the pathognomon to silence.
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