Moving Images, Mobile Bodies : The Poetics and Practice of Corporeality in Visual and Performing Arts.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Images of the Body -- The Imbued Agency of Performer Driven Narratives in Telematic Environments -- Presence and Presentness in Performative Media Art -- Panoptic Options -- From Please Turn to "Please Don't Touch" -- Beyond Virtual Bodies: A New Frontier? -- Part II: Body and images -- Mat Chivers -- Imaginary Bodies and Scenic Presence -- The Body as a "Secular Sacred" Space in Ritual Theatre -- Palaces, Stars and Abeceda -- The Body of the Empathic Spectator -- I Have Weight -- Contributors.

The book comprises a series of contributions by international scholars and practitioners from different backgrounds researching in the fields of contemporary visual culture and performance studies. This collection addresses the issue of corporeality as a discursive field (which asks for a "poetics"), and the possible ways in which technology affects and is affected by the body in the context of recent artistic and theoretical developments. The common denominator of the contributions here is their focus on the relationship between body and image expressed as the connection between reality and fiction, presence and absence, private and public, physical and virtual. The essays cover a wide range of topics within a framework that integrates and emphasises recent artistic practices and current academic debates in the fields of performance studies, visual arts, new aesthetics, perception theories, phenomenology, and media theory. The book addresses these recent trends by articulating issues including the relationship between immediate experience and mediated image; performing the image; the body as fictional territory; performative idioms and technological expression; corporeality, presence and memory; interactivity as a catalyst for multimediality and remediation; visuality, performativity and expanded spectatorship; and the tensions between public space and intimacy in (social) media environments.The main strength of this volume is the fact that it provides the reader with a fresh, insightful and transdiciplinary perspective on the body-image relationship, an issue widely debated today, especially in the context of global artistic and technological transformations.

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