Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances write by Doris Kolesch. This book was released on 2019-05-03. Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Experiments in Immersive, One-to-One Performance
Experiments in Immersive, One-to-One Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experiments in Immersive, One-to-One Performance write by Natalia Esling. This book was released on 2024-08-01. Experiments in Immersive, One-to-One Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates audience experience through the lens of sensory engagement in immersive, one-to-one performance. It presents a distinct, practice-based research (PBR) framework – a performance research ‘laboratory’ – designed to evaluate the effects on diverse audience experiences of two ‘sense-specific manipulations’: eye masks and touch. Through a qualitative analysis of responses from seventy-four individual audience participants, this book offers insight into how these popular ‘immersing’ strategies might be experienced. What do these strategies achieve? How do audience participants make sense of them? Do audience responses align with artistic intentions? And how does the PBR framework designed to address these questions influence the outcomes? Through an analysis of three sets of one-to-one performance experiments generating comparative data about the experience of sense-specific manipulation, this book proposes the utility of merging methodologies in artistic research with empirical audience research in theatre and performance studies. This study offers a new perspective on the value of sensory-focused, immersive, one-to-one experience as a means of resensitizing audience participants through performance.
Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts
Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts write by Ben Walmsley. This book was released on 2019-09-11. Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the concept of audience engagement from a number of complementary perspectives, including cultural value, arts marketing, co-creation and digital engagement. It offers a critical review of the existing literature on audience research and engagement, and provides an overview of established and emerging methodologies deployed to undertake research with audiences. The book focusses on the performing arts, but draws from a rich diversity of academic fields to make the case for a radically interdisciplinary approach to audience research. The book’s underlying thesis is that at the heart of audience research there is a mutual exchange of value wherein audiences ideally play the role of strategic partners in the mission fulfilment of arts organisations. Illustrating how audiences have traditionally been side-lined, homogenised and vilified, it contends that the future paradigm of audience studies should be based on an engagement model, wherein audiences take their rightful place as subjects rather than objects of empirical research.
Immersive Theatres
Immersive Theatres - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immersive Theatres write by Josephine Machon. This book was released on 2017-09-16. Immersive Theatres available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive text is the first survey to explore the theory, history and practice of immersive theatre. Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, Josephine Machon shares her wealth of expertise in the field of contemporary performance, inviting the reader to immerse themselves within this abundantly illustrated text. The first section of the book introduces concepts of immersion, situating them within a historical context and establishing a clear critical vocabulary for discussion. The second section then presents contributions from a wealth of immersive artists. Assuming no prior knowledge with its critical commentary, this is a rich resource for lecturers and students at all levels and internationally, including undergraduates and post-graduates, as well as practitioners and researchers of contemporary performance. This would also be an ideal text for general enthusiasts and readers with an interest in immersive theatre.
Spatial Encounters
Spatial Encounters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spatial Encounters write by Mélanie Binette. This book was released on 2014. Spatial Encounters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This research approaches spectatorship in immersive performances by combining models of spectatorial agency and the agency of space with a practice of post-performance conversations and correspondence with audiences. Immersive performances often place spectators at the heart of the event, framing embodied experiences and social interactions as material for aesthetic explorations. Debates in aesthetic theory have sometimes condemned the focus of such events on spectatorial participation, describing it as rather manipulative and disempowering. This thesis negotiates the theoretical discourse with an empirical approach to audiences, by exploring different perspectives through spectators’ accounts of their experience. Immersive performances heighten the experience of space by creating aesthetic environments in which spectators encounter other forms of agency: those of the world(s) and those of the inanimate things surrounding spectators. This thesis investigates how immersive performances may both transform the way that spectators perceive space and trigger their critical and creative thinking about their environment. The four case studies examined in this research proposed spaces that created a flexible experience for spectators in which they could perform their difference. Two of the performances under study were produced in London, United Kingdom, where the notion of immersion in performance has recently pervaded the contemporary performance scene and theoretical discourse. The other two performances happened at Concordia University during the 2012 student strike and engaged with this emotionally gripping political context, exemplifying how immersive performances may introduce counter-narratives in institutional spaces that trigger political and critical thoughts.
