Full Description
The Sensible Stage is a collection of essays exploring the use of live performance and moving image in contemporary art practice. It engages with a global phenomenon in which elements from theatre and cinema are integrated into art as forms of archive, questioning the concept of materiality and undermining the boundaries between what we understand as 'live' or 'mediated', the 'body' or the 'image'. Opening with a discussion between prominent philosopher Alain Badiou and Elle During, this book is grounded in the practice it analyses, bringing together a unique mixture of theoretical, creative and discursive reflections on the meeting of stage and screen. This expanded edition is an updated, in-depth insight into this highly important development in contemporary art practice, and contains revised material from the previous publication as well as two original chapters.
Contents
Introduction
Bridget Crone
A Theatre of Operations: A Discussion between Alain Badiou and Elie During
Alain Badiou and Elie During
Performer, Audience, Mirror: Cinema, Theatre and the Idea of the Live
Ian White
'Je suis photographe': Figures of Cinematic Narrators
Vanessa Desclaux
Spectators, Obejects and Infrastructures: A Discussion between Dan Kidner and Bridget Crone
Dan Kidner and Bridget Crone
Treatise on Movement
Beatrice Gibson
Moving Poses / Arresting Feeling: Jimmy Robert's "L'Education Sentimental"
Dominic Andrew Paterson
Between the Body and Object the Voice Appears: Yael Davids' "Learning to Imitate" and "Learning to Imitate in Absentia"
Lisa Panting
The Subject in Process: Material Equations in the Work of Carolee Schneemann and Annabel Nicolson
Lucy Reynolds
Working Songs: 'yes to the connection between voice and audience'
Anne-Sophie Dinant
The Gesture of the Muted Voice: Cara Tolmie's "Myriad Mouth Line"
Mason Leaver-Yap
The Divided Stage: Splitting the Dialectics of Performance
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Notes Towards a Sensible Stage
Bridget Crone
