Contents
Introduction: Perhaps the Medium-Specificity of the Contemporary Performing Arts is Mutation?
Theatre Between Performance and Installation: Three Contemporary Belgian Examples / Christophe Van Gerrewey
The Fourth Wall, or the Rift Between Citizen and Government: Another Attempt at a Conceptual Synthesis of Theatre and Politics / Klaas Tindemans
Using Recorded Images for Political Purposes / Nancy Delhalle
A Campsite for the Avant-Garde and a Church in Cyberspace: Christoph Schlingensief ’s Dialogue with Avant-Gardism / Anna Teresa Scheer
Echoes from the Animist Past: Abattoir Fermé’s Dark Backward and Abysm of Time / Evelien Jonckheere
Folding Mutants or Crumbling Hybrids? : Of Looking Baroque in Contemporary Theatre and Performance / Jeroen Coppens
Making UNMAKEABLELOVE: The Relocation of Theatre / Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw
Witness Protection? : Surveillance Technologies in Theatrical Performance / Elise Morrison
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Intermedial Reproduction: Rimini Protokoll’s Mnemopark / Katia Arfara
Rimini Protokoll’s Theatricalization of Reality / Frederik Le Roy
Digital Landscapes: The Meta-Picturesque Qualities of Kurt d’Haeseleer’s Audiovisual Sceneries / Nele Wynants
The Productivity of the Prototype: On Julien Maire’s ‘Cinema of Contraptions’ / Edwin Carels
The Theatre of Recorded Sound and Film: Vacating Performance in Michael Curran’s Look What They Done To My Song / Marco Pustianaz
Doubled Bodies and Live Loops: On Ragnar Kjartansson’s Mediatized Performances / Eva Heisler
Between Solitaire and a Basketball Game: Dramaturgical Strategies in the Work of Antonia Baehr / Tom Engels
Index of Subjects
Index of Names