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Surveillance Spectacles: The Big Art Group’s Flicker and the Screened Body in Performance

Notes

This article analyzes the question of where the dominant mode of production lies – on the screen, where action and a singular character identity cohere, or behind the screen, where the embodied difference of the actors is continually prioritized.

Artist / Author Jason Farman
Reference A0262
Date 2009
Journal Cont Theatre Review
Journal page 181-194
Type Article

Keywords

body Caden Manson digital body embodiment ethics gender identity race spectatorship surveillance The Big Art Group

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