Mapping Intermediality in Performance

Andy Lavender is Dean of Research and Professor of Contemporary Theatre at The Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London. He is co-convener of the Intermediality in Theatre and Performance working group of the International Federation for Theatre Research, and was formerly co-convener of the New Technologies for Theatre working group of the Theatre and Performance Research Association. Chiel Kattenbelt is Associate Professor in Media Comparison and Intermediality at Utrecht University. He teaches in the BA program Theatre, Film and Television Studies, in the MA programs Theatre Studies and New Media and Digital Culture and in the Research MA program Media and Performance Studies. Sarah Bay-Cheng is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre at the University at Buffalo, where she teaches performance theory, avant-garde theatre and film, and intermedial performance.

• Contents - 6 How to Approach This Book - 10 Introduction: Prospective Mapping and Network of Terms - 14 Portal: Performativity and Corporeal Literacy - 28 Node: Modes of Experience - 46 Instances - 50 Portal: Time and Space - 84 Node: Dimensions - 98 Instances - 102 Portal: Digital Culture and Posthumanism - 124 Node: Actuality-Virtuality - 142 Instances - 144 Portal: Networking - 172 Node: Inter-relations - 186 Instances - 192 Portal: Pedagogic Praxis - 218 Retrospection: The Pre- and Proto-digital - 238 Notes - 260 Cited Works - 268 Contributors - 284 Index - 294

"Bold, incisive and engaging, Mapping Intermediality in Performance goes further than any book to date in tracing the nuanced interrelationships and metamorphic interplays between digital media and the performance arts. It provides the reader with authoritative overviews of key ideas and performances, opens up fascinating new trajectories of thought, and fuses theory and practice with explosive effect. A magnificent achievement that is likely to set critical agendas in the field for many years to come." - Steve Dixon, Professor of Digital Performance, Brunel University "Reading this book is like surfing the web: it not only maps intermediality in performance - it exemplifies it." - Philip Auslander, Professor, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology