Full Description
Gross anatomy, the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by unassisted vision, has long been a subject of fascination for artists. For most modern viewers, however, the anatomy lesson hardly seems the proper breeding ground for the hybrid workings of art and theory. We forget that, in its early stages, anatomy pursued the highly theatrical spirit of Renaissance science, as painters such as Rembrandt and Da Vinci and medical instructors shared audiences devoted to the workings of the human body. Anatomy Live turns our modern notions of the dissecting table on its head - using anatomical theatre as a means of obtaining a fresh perspective on representations of the body, conceptions of subjectivity, and own knowledge about science and the stage. Critically dissecting well-known exhibitions like Body Worlds and The Visible Human Project and featuring contributions from a number of diverse scholars, Anatomy Live is not to be missed by anyone with an interest in this engaging intersection of science and artistic practice.
Contents
Contents - 6[-]Acknowledgements - 8[-]Prologue Men with Glass Bodies - 10[-]Introduction - 12[-]Performance Documentation 1: Holoman; Digital Cadaver - 24[-]Digital Cadavers and Virtual Dissection - 30[-]'Who Were You?': The Visible and the Visceral - 50[-]Performance Documentation 2: Excavations : Fresh but Rotten - 68[-]The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Moxham - 76[-]'Be not faithless but believing': Illusion and Doubt in the Anatomy Theatre - 94[-]Performance Documentation 3: De Anatomische Les - 112[-]Of Dissection and Technologies of Culture in Actor Training Programs - an Example from 1960s West Germany - 114[-]Ocular Anatomy, Chiasm, and Theatre Architecture as a Material Phenomenologyin Early Modern Europe - 130[-]Performance Documentation 4: Camillo - Memo 4.0: The Cabinet of Memories - A Tear Donnor Session - 148[-]Martin , Massumi , and The Matrix - 152[-]Performance Documentation 5: sensing presence no. 1: performing a hyperlink system - 166[-]'Where Are You Now?': Locating the Body in Contemporary Performance - 170[-]Performance Documentation 6: Under My Skin - 182[-]Anatomies of Live Art - 188[-]Performance Documentation 7: Crash - 206[-]Restaging the Monstrous - 212[-]Delirium of the Flesh: 'All the Dead Voices' in the Space of the Now - 224[-]Performance Documentation 8: K?ｿｽrper - 246[-]Operating Theatres: Body-bits and a Post-apartheid Aesthetics - 252[-]Index - 264
