Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances

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 figuresList of tablesList of contributorsAcknowledgementsFunding note Immersion and Spectatorship at the Interface of Theatre, Media Tech and Daily Life: An IntroductionDoris Kolesch Part I: Mobile AudiencesUnexpected Encounter. On Installation Art as Immersive SpaceBarbara GronauDoggies, Masters and the End of the European Union. On Immersive Theatre Installations by SIGNA and Thomas Bellinck Benjamin WihstutzOn the Impossibility of Being TogetherA conversation between performance artist Signa Köstler and Theresa Schütz Bordering and Shattering the Stage: Mobile Audiences as Compositional Forces Liesbeth Groot NibbelinkStructures of SpectatorshipKerstin SchankweilerPart II: Researching SpectatorshipKeep it real A conversation between performance artist Julian Hetzel and Theresa Schütz Participatory Audiencing and the Committed ReturnMatthew Reason Immersive Art – Immersive Research?Stefanie HuselParsing ‘Commitment’: The Multiple Valences of Spectatorship Janelle ReineltThe Case for Empirical Audience ResearchAntje KahlPart III: Questions of Power – Politics of Affect in Immersive PerformancesFeminism, Audience Interaction, and Performer AuthorityJen HarvieThe Promise of Participation Revisited: Affective Strategies of Participation Gareth WhiteCapturing complexity while being pressed for timeA conversation between scenographer Mona el Gammal and Theresa Schütz Immersive Guilt FactoriesTheresa SchützDark Immersion. Some thoughts on SIGNA’s Wir Hunde/Us Dogs Rainer Mühlhoff