Machon, Josephine, 1979-
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index.
- Contributing artists and referenced work. Michael Morris (Joint Artistic Director of Artangel) : H.G. , The missing voice (Case study B) Felix Barrett (Founder and Artistic Director of Punchdrunk) : Masque of the red death , The crash of the Elysium Bruce Gladwin (Artistic Director of Back to Back Theatre) : Soft , Small metal objects Christer Lundahl and Martina Seitl (Founders and Artistic Directors of Lundahl & Seitl) : Symphony of a missing room , Rotating in a room of moving images Silvia Mercuriali : Etiquette , And the birds fell from the sky Tassos Stevens (Co-founder and Co-director of Coney) : The gold-bug , A small town anywhere Samantha Holdsworth (Co-founder and Co-artistic Director of Nimble Fish) : The container , Re:bourne Punchdrunk Enrichment led by Pete Higgin (Enrichment Director) : Under the eiderdown , The uncommercial traveller Louise Ann Wilson : House , Fissure Bill Mitchell (Artistic Director) and Sue Hill (Associate Director of WildWorks) : Souterrain , The passion Adrian Howells : Foot Washing for the Sole , The Pleasure of Being : Washing, Feeding, Holding Tristan Sharps (Founder and Artistic Director of dreamthinkspeak) : Before I Sleep , The Rest Is Silence –
- Introduction. Immersive Theatre An immersive inheritance : Modernism, Antonin Artaud and ‘total theatres’ , Happenings and Environmental Theatre , Installation and intimacy , Immersive technologies, sensual technologies , Intimacy, involvement and communitas Immersive theatres : immediacy and intimacy today Immersion and interaction Presence as praesence The structure of Part One and Part Two — pt. One. Defining Immersive Theatres. 1. Definitions and Details : Definitions Defining immersiveness, immersion, immersivity : Immersion, involvement and presence : Gaming Theory , Immersion, involvement and praesence : defining immersive theatre Gauging an immersive event –
- 2.Features and Finer Details: A Scale of Immersivity — Central features of immersive practice… — … Audience involvement, audience evolvement — … Sensual worlds: immediacy, intimacy and sensuality — …Space, place and praesence: site-inspired practice — …Immersive worlds: immersive environments and the environment — The scale of immersivity — 3.Immersive Perspectives — Immersive perspectives: feeling, form and function — Immersive practice and experiential form: (syn)aesthetics — Immersive perspectives: making-sense/sense-making — Gilles Deleuze: ̀immanence’ and the ludic logic of sense — Kathryn Linn Geurts: embodied feeling, embodied knowing: ̀Seselelame’ — Immersive perspectives: the pleasures of the audience — Umberto Eco and open works — Jacques Ranciere’s ̀emancipated spectator’ — Nicolas Bourriaud and relational aesthetics –
- Contents note continued: Immersive perspectives: the significance of space — Juhani Pallasmaa: the sensuality of space — Doreen Massey: the politics of space and place — Gaston Bachelard: the poetics of space — Immersive theatres: audience, space, duration, sensation — pt. Two Immersion, Intimacy and Immediacy in Practice — Introduction — Conversations one. Michael Morris of Artangel : Immersive theatres : intimacy, immediacy, transformation Felix Barrett of Punchdrunk : Immersive theatres : intimacy, immediacy, imagination — Conversations two. Bruce Gladwin of Back To Back Theatre : The intimate (im)mediacy of sound Lundahl & Seitl : Challenging the (im)mediate interface Silvia Mercuriali : Immersive imaginations : the intimate and (im)mediate — Conversations three. Tassos Stevens of Coney : Playing with(in) the ‘what is’ and ‘what if’ Samantha Holdsworth of Nimble Fish : Immersivity and cultural production : ‘permission to play’
- Punchdrunk Enrichment : Immersion, enrichment and empowerment — Conversations four. Louise Ann Wilson : Immersed in the environment : ‘off the beaten track’ Bill Mitchell and Sue Hill of WildWorks : Immersive communitas : space, place and people — Conversations five. Adrian Howells : The epic in the intimate Tristan Sharps of dreamthinkspeak : The intimate in the epic — Conclusion : Immersive Theatres.
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