Cyborg theatre: corporeal/technological intersections in multimedia performance

by Parker-Starbuck, Jennifer

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Title Statements

Full title :Cyborg theatre : corporeal/technological intersections in multimedia performance / Jennifer Parker-Starbuck.

Summary

Cyborg Theatre investigates the role of bodies within the expanding field of multimedia performance. This innovative study articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre' that metaphorically integrates on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to radically reimagine subjectivity in our posthuman age. Parker-Starbuck covers a variety of provocative examples, both historical and contemporary, to propose new theoretical tools for understanding performance in our changing world. She offers a compelling feminist-inspired argument for the ways in which a range of bodies appearing onstage with new technologies serve to challenge notions of identity and destabilize historical binaries. Through a variety of critical lenses, she considers the ways in which bodies are already integrated with technology and the questions this raises in and through performance. The focus on the body is a necessary theorizing of this emergent field, which is often understood solely through the technology on stage.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 241 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780230306523, 0230306527
DOI:10.1007/978-0-230-30652-3
oclc:ocn728644671
LC Classification:PN2193.E86
Dewey Decimal:792

Introduction : why cyborg theatre? -- Backspace : historical/theoretical intersections -- Shifting the balance : "abject" bodies -- "Object of control" : framing the fragments -- Entering the view : triangulating "subject" bodies -- Conclusion : remembering bodies, becoming-cyborg.

Subjects

Arts du spectacle Cyborg theater Cyborgs Experimental theater Performing arts PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater Réalité virtuelle Technologie et arts Technology and the arts virtual reality