Performance Research

Performance Research Vol. 10    No. 4 'On Techne'   

Abstracts

The Revelation of Techne: an anatomical theatre
Gianna Bouchard

The Theatre Soundscape and the End of Noise
Ross Brown

Pods, Tubes, Plants, Motor Oil and Other Survival Machines: A Syncourse with Claudia Bucher
Meiling Cheng

Techne, Technology, Technician: the creative practices of the mastercraftsperson
Nick Hunt and Susan Melrose

Making Cruising Dwelling: Motion as shelter in the Work of David Wojnarowicz
Melissa Jacques

The Nameless and the Named
Graham Ley

Elemental Spaces and Elemantal Performatives
Michael LeVan

Revealing Embodiment: Heidegger’s Techne interpreted through Performance Processes in Interactive Systems
Susan Kozel

On Techne: Performance and the Human-Crafted Environment
Simon Macklin

Making Space, Marking Time: Stationhouse Opera’s Mare’s Nest
Richard Malcolm

Projection and transaction: the spatial operation of scenography
Joslin McKinney

The Means Whereby: My Body Encountering Choreography via Trisha Brown’s Locus
Megan Nicely

Oblivion
Daniel Watt

A dwelling in the screen, at least for a little time
Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller

Performance Research

Performance Research Vol. 10    No. 3 'On Shakespeare'    (September 2005)

Abstracts

Issue Editors: William Sherman and Peter Holland

Editorial
William Sherman and Peter Holland

Digitizing Performance History: Where do we go from here?
Christie Carson

Seeing, Studying, Performing: Bell's Edition of Shakespeare and performative reading
Stuart Sillars

'When the forest moves'
Millie Chen

NecrOphelia: Death, Femininity and the Making of Modern Aesthetics
Magda Romanska

Pitfalls of Cinematic Aspiration: the Reception of Peter Sellars's The Merchant of Venice
Richard Pettengill

De-basing Shakespeare: Henry X
Dan McCannell

A Shared Experience: Shakespeare and popular theatre
Stephen Purcell

Shakespeare Under the Skin
Anston Bosman

Brief Chronicles: Remembering Shakespearean Performance

Book Review

Performance Research

Performance Research Vol. 10    No. 2 'On Form/Yet to Come'    (June 2005)

Abstracts

Issue Editor: Ric Allsopp

Editorial
Ric Allsopp

What Needs to be Conceptualized is a Political Subject
Marina Gržini?, Emil Hrvatin, Lev Kreft, Aldo Miloni? and Miran Mohar

Living in Trans: Transition, Transformation, Translation
Goran Sergej Pristaš

Lumpen Design, Penis Fashion and Body-Part Amplifiers: Artistic Responses to the New Image-environments in Former Socialist Countries Since 1989
Anna Schober

Yet to Come: Discontents of the Common History
Bojana Kunst

Direct Action and Radical Performance
Aldo Milohni?

Heiner M?ller and Martin Wuttke: Staging New Images in a Time of Change
Denise Varney

A Few Notes on Branko Gavella and His Theory of Acting
Marin Blaževi?

The Newly-formed Personality of the Actor
Branko Gavella

The Empty Space is a Wall: the Role of Theatrical Translation in the Public Re-inscription of the Other
Paul Carter

P.E.A.C.E. (Peacekeeper's Entertainment, Art and Cultural Exchange) [artist's pages]
Emil Hrvatin

Médéé Matériau: the Assassination of the Spectator
Nataliya Golofastova

Plantation and Thicket: a Double (Sight) Reading of Sir Thomas Browne's Garden of Cypus
Mark Leahy

An Introduction to D.B. Indoš
Una Bauer

Dvije Sestre (Two Sisters): Extracts from a Diary, April 2003 - January 2005 [artist's pages]
Damir Bartol Indoš

Aspects of Form and Its Significance in Contemporary Music
Catherine Laws

Love Without Mercy
Ana Vujanovi? with Igor štromajer

Book Review
Claire Macdonald

Notes on Contributors

Sur-Face
Ric Allsopp

Performance Research

Performance Research Volume 10   No. 1    (April 2005)

Abstracts

Editorial
NICHOLAS RIDOUT

Steam Radio: On Theatre's Thin Air
STEVEN CONNOR

It Happens This Time Only
KIKKALERI

Troublesome Amateurs: Theatre, Ethics and the Labour of Mimesis
ADRIAN KEAR

Absorption and Focalization: Performance and its Double
MAAIKE BLEEKER

Theatrum Mundi
DANIEL WATT

Translating Bodies
MICK WALLIS

Chronicles of the Indeterminate: Ordering Chaos in the Retrospectives of Forced Entertainment
SARAH GORMAN

Once MoreWith Feeling
MARTIN WELTON

Acting on the Media: the Actor's Modes of Being on Stage in an Age of Technological Mediation
ANJA KLÖCK

Finishing Stanislavski…:An Artificially Intelligent Autonomous Agent Prepares)
NANCY REILLY-MCVITTIE & CATHERINE LIU

Notes on Contributors

Performance Research

Performance Research Vol. 9    No. 4 'On Civility'    (December 2004)

Issue Editor: Alan Read

1 Editorial
ALAN READ

3 Reclaiming the Right to Performance
RUSTOM BHARUCHA

18 Don't Take it Personally
PAUL RAE

25 The Uncertainties of Dialogue
NEERA CHANDHOKE

30 A Theatre of Civility
SALLY DOUGHTY & NICK MANGAN

41 Spit Not in the Fire - the Art of Manners
Simon Bayley

41 Love Junkies
ALPHONSO LINGIS

54 Chronic Fatigue
STEVEN CONNOR

59 The Thing with Feathers
DAVID WILLIAMS

66 Performing Hospitals from the Ground Up
JEB WISEMAN

71 Democracy Machine
ALAN READ

86 Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Arts
ALAIN BADIOU

87 Theatre and Politics
JANELLE REINELT

95 Impurity and the Postcolonial Subject
ALAN FILEWOD

99 Thinking out of Time
ADRIAN KEAR

111 Ethics of Voice
Claudia Castellucci, Chiara Guidi & Joe Kelleher

116 The Strangers Beyond the Gates
DOREEN MASSEY

123 The Stranger Within
JAN COHEN-CRUZ

126 Urban Refuge, Voluntary COmmunity
NIGEK RAPPORT

134 Performance and Civility
Peter Harrop

139 Notes on Contributors

142 DVD contents
Seven Variations on the Century (Video/Text)
ALAIN BADIOU
Civic Life (Video/Text)
DESPERATE OPTIMISTS
The Trouble with The Trouble with Community (Text)
EUGENE VAN ERVEN
Why and When with Michel de Certeau We Paid Attention to Everyday Life (Text)
LUCIE GAIRD
Axiom on the Everyday (Text)
MICHAEL KOBIALKA
Raindogs (Video/Text)
MIKE PEARSON
Civic Censure (Text/Images)
PLATFORM
Uovo di Bocca (Video/Text)
SOCIETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO
This is Holland Here (Video/Text)
STUT THEATRE
Theatre Architecture: Convivial or Imperious (Text/Video)
ANDREW TODD
The Fearless Memorial
KRZYSTOF WODICZKO

Performance Research

Performance Research Vol.9    No.3 'Generation'    (September, 2004)

Issue Editor: Claire Macdonald

Editorial 1

Prologue3

Ventriloqua (Artists' Pages)
Aura Satz 4

Surviving Text
Cathy Turner 9

The Kids Were Alright
Doug Rosson 23

Fingers on the Collective
Helen Freshwater 30

(Re)performing the Archive
Chris Hill 44

From Generation to Generation
Michael Macmillan 54

The Shape of the Stone
Lisa Moren 69

Mother's Little Helper
Lenora Champagne 85

Generation Patrice
Pavis 97

Distant Cousins
Bronwyn Tweddle 108

Criminals and Celebrities
David O'Donnell 118

Angelesness (Artists' Pages)
Zekiye Sarikartal 131

Book Review
Key Words 136

Arts Review
Brown Study 136

Notes on Contributors 141

Performance Research

Performance Research Vol.9    No.2 'On the Page'    (June 2004)

Issue Editors: Ric Allsopp and Kevin Mount

Preface ii

Section 1: THE MATERIAL PAGE

Frontispiece: ‘He Continued Blinking his Eyes and Trying to Smile…’
Deborah Price iv

Itinerant Pages: The page as Performance Space
Ric Allsopp 2

Woman in White Meets Man in Black
Kevin Mount 7

Reading (Il)Legible pages
John Hall 15

Drawing a Blank: Picturing Nothing on the Page
Howard Hollands 24

Section 2 PAGEWORKS

Frontispiece: Supermen
Foreign Investment 34

Insert Polished Pages
Tanja Dabo

Repulsive Margins
Deborah Price 36

Elbowroom and Read/Write/Fold Architecture
Eve Dent & Arch-os 38

The Light Emitting Organ
Philip Warnell & Stéphanie Nava 44

Forged Inscriptions
Rosy Greaves 52

Word for Word
Nick Thurston & Pavel Büchler 55

The Error Engine
Judd Morrissey 63

Transactables
Scott Delahunta, Wayne Mcgregor & Alan Blackwell 67

Supermen: A Silent Play in 12 Scenes
Foreign Investment 73

Installation for an Unsuspecting Home
Jordan Harrison 79

Property
Jordan Harrison 83

Vinst 1
Emmanuelle Waeckerle 88

Way from Home with Insert
Misha Myers & Dan Harris 90

Section 3 THE CRITICAL PAGE

Frontispiece: ‘Reading a Polished Page’
John Hall 92

Writing to Vanish: Etienne Decroux’s Eclipse of Corporeality
Franz Anton Cramer 94

Visual Poetry as Performance
Ian Davidson 99

Torah Pages
Robyn Sassen 108

The Crystal Ball
Joshua Sofaer 118

The Grain of a Duck’s Voice
Dr Quack 132

Beyond the Genius of the Sea: The Theatre of the Natural Unconscious
Anthony Kubiak 142

Book Review: Turning Over an Old Leaf
William H. Sherman 151

Index
Simon Zimmerman 155

Notes on Contributors 161

DVD Contents 164

Performance Research

Performance Research Vol.9    No.1 'Correspondence'    (March 2004)

Issue Editors: Claire MacDonald and Ric Allsopp

Editorial 1

Lifelines
Sophia New (artists’ pages) 3, 36, 74, 112

She came and did it and went and I came and people are coming: Gertrude Stein wrote
Yvon Bonenfant 6

A Triangle of Thought: Side One
Craig Higginson, Joanna Laurens, Caridad Svich 11

A Letter to Peter Brötzmann
Mike Pearson 18

The Fall of Babble: an Ontogenesic Experiment on the Fragmentation of Language
T. Nikki Cesare 20

The Internet’s Underware
Craig Saper 38

Xipe Totec Wears the Skin of Artaud
Ehren Fordyce (artists’ pages) 43

Specular Correspondence
Tina Takemoto 46

Ten Dream Drawings (2001)
Barbara Neri (artists’ pages) 57

Last Laughs
Adrian Heathfield 60

A Triangle of Thought: Side Two
Craig Higginson, Joanna Laurens, Caridad Svich 67

A Triangle of Thought: Side Three
Craig Higginson, Joanna Laurens, Caridad Svich 76

Sehr Geehrter Herr Schlemmer . . . A Letter to Oskar Schlemmer occasioned by a performance of the Bauhaustänzeat the Dessau Bauhaus 1928
Melissa Trimingham 81

Correspondence Course 1980–83
Carolee Schneemann (artists’ pages) 99

Performance Reviews

The Passion of Proceduralism
Bojana Cvejic´ 107

The Gesture Speaks
Lori Ortiz 114

Notes on Contributors 117