Consisting of critical analyses, theoretical provocations and practical reflections by leading scholars/practitioners from the fields of performance studies, live art and creative technology, these essays examine the rise of intimate performance works and question the socio-historical contexts provoking those aesthetic and affective developments.
Author Biography:
GARY ANDERSON Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK
SANDY BALDWIN Associate Professor of English, West Virginia University, USA
ANGELA BARTRAM Senior Lecturer, University of Lincoln, UK
JOANNES BIRRINGER Professor of Performance Technologies, School of Arts, Brunel University, UK
JESS DOBKIN Fellow, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
ANNDA DUMUTRIU Visiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence with the Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK
JANUES JEFFERIES Professor of Visual Arts and Research, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
DOMINIC JOHNSON Lecturer, Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
SIMON JONES Professor of Performance, University of Bristol, UK
JOE KELLEHER Professor of Theatre and Performance, Roehampton University, UK
BRANISLAVA KUBUROVIC independent researcher, UK
ERIN MANNING University Research Chair in Relational Art and Philosophy, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Canada
ELENA PAPADAKI independent researcher, UK
PAUL SERMON Professor of Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK
LENA SIMIC Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK
ATAU TANAKA Professor at Goldsmiths Digital Studios, University of London, UK
TRACEY WARR Lecturer in Art Theory, Oxford Brookes University, UK