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Animals
The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.
Documentary
The revival of documentary in art, considered in historical, theoretical, and contemporary contexts.
Encounters in Performance Philosophy
A collection of 14 essays by international scholars and practitioners from across the disciplines of Philosophy, Literature and Theatre and Performance Studies, addressing the nature of the relationship between philosophy and performance.
Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical
Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of “vectors of the radical” shape the avant-garde.
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it–to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries.
justfornow
An offline version of the website www.justfornow.net in March 2004.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The Dreamers
A collection exploring walking (literally and figuratively, one might say sleepwalking).
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity
Explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.
Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication
Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication.
On Repetition: Writing, Performance and Art
The collection explores repetition in relation to intimacy, laughter, technology, familiarity, and fear proposing a new vocabulary for understanding what is at stake in works that repeat.
