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Performance, Technology, & Science
The author's writings are widely known in the United States and Europe.
Kinetic Atmospheres
This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. Birringer’s writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, gesture, sensing perception, cognition, and trans-sensory hallucination. If landscapes are autobiographical, and atmospheres prompt us to enter blurred lines of a "forest knowledge," where light, shade, and darkness entangle us in foraging mediations of contaminated diversity, then such sensitization to element...
Performance on the Edge
Performance on the Edge takes the reader on a journey across geographical borders and conceptual boundaries in order to map out the new territory of contemporary theatre, dance, media arts and activism. Working across social, cultural and political fault lines, the book explores performance as both process and contact, as the commitment to political activism and the reconstruction of community, as site-specific intervention into the social and technological structures of abandonment, and as the highly charged embodiment of erotic fantasies.Performance on the Edge addresses the politics of community-oriented and reconstructive artmaking in an era marked by the AIDS crisis, cultural and racial polarization, warfare, separatism and xenophobia. Provocatively illustrated with work from North and Central America and Eastern and Western Europe, the book challenges our assumptions about the relations between media and activism, technological imperatives and social processes and bodily identities and virtual communities.
Media & Performance
The author discusses the performance aspects of such political events as the breaching of the Berlin wall and the destruction of Sarajevo, and examines the use of video and agitprop performance in political activity, including protests by the gay activist group ACT UP and the disquieting performances of the former pornography actress and sex worker Annie Sprinkle. Birringer ends with a discussion of the continuing incursions of business into digital media, including the "imperialism of technological enhancements" as experienced in the culture of constant "upgrades" and the omnipresence of Bill Gates.
Of the Presence of the Body
Writing at the dynamic intersection of dance and performance studies.
Performance on the Edge
"Performance on the Edge addresses the politics of community-oriented and reconstructive artmaking in an era marked by the AIDS crisis, cultural and racial polarization, warfare, separatism and xenophobia. Provocatively illustrated with work from North and Central America and Eastern and Western Europe, the book challenges our assumptions about the relations between media and activism, technological imperatives and social processes, and bodily identities and virtual communities."--BOOK JACKET.
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
This book is concerned with language, genre, drama, and literary and historical narrative and examines the comedy of Shakespeare in the context of comedies from Italy, Spain, and France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Performance and Media
An innovative approach for explicating and mapping work at the media and performance nexus
Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and "Tamburlaine"
Within the context of Elizabethan critical theories on tragic drama and, more generally, on form and content, style, rhetoric and moral meaning in theatrical performance, Marlowe's major plays raise important questions about the possibility of innovation in poetics and dramaturgy on a stage which was hardly prepared to sustain the subversive self-display of the new Marlovian hero. After discussing two recent approaches (v. Balthasar; Derrida) to the definition of «orthodoxy» and «theology» in drama, Birringer examines the forms of ethical challenge inscribed within the Tamburlaine plays and Dr Faustus. Detailed analyses of the performance dynamics and dramatic styles in Marlowe's plays also help to clarify their particular status in relation to contemporary theatre practice and, especially, Shakespearean drama.
