Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances

Commit Yourself!
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-18796-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Affective Societies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kolesch, Doris

Schütz, Theresa

Nikoleit, Sophie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Funding note

- Immersion and Spectatorship at the Interface of Theatre, Media Tech and Daily Life: An Introduction

Doris Kolesch

Part I: Mobile Audiences

- Unexpected Encounter. On Installation Art as Immersive Space

Barbara Gronau

- Doggies, Masters and the End of the European Union. On Immersive Theatre Installations by SIGNA and Thomas Bellinck

Benjamin Wihstutz

- On the Impossibility of Being Together

A conversation between performance artist Signa Köstler and Theresa Schütz

- Bordering and Shattering the Stage: Mobile Audiences as Compositional Forces

Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink

- Structures of Spectatorship

Kerstin Schankweiler

Part II: Researching Spectatorship

- Keep it real

A conversation between performance artist Julian Hetzel and Theresa Schütz

- Participatory Audiencing and the Committed Return

Matthew Reason

- Immersive Art – Immersive Research?

Stefanie Husel

- Parsing ‘Commitment’: The Multiple Valences of Spectatorship

Janelle Reinelt

- The Case for Empirical Audience Research

Antje Kahl

Part III: Questions of Power – Politics of Affect in Immersive Performances

- Feminism, Audience Interaction, and Performer Authority

Jen Harvie

- The Promise of Participation Revisited: Affective Strategies of Participation

Gareth White

- Capturing complexity while being pressed for time

A conversation between scenographer Mona el Gammal and Theresa Schütz

- Immersive Guilt Factories

Theresa Schütz

- Dark Immersion. Some thoughts on SIGNA’s Wir Hunde/Us Dogs

Rainer Mühlhoff

Über Autor(innen)

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.