Bastard or Playmate?

Summary

Artistic media seem to be in a permanent condition of mutation and transformation. Contemporary artists often investigate the limits and possibilities of the media they use and experiment with the crossing, upgrading and mutilation of media. Others explicitly explore the unknown intermedial space between existing media, searching for the hybrid beings that occupy these in-betweens. This issue of Theater Topics explores the theme of mutating and adapting media in its relation with theatre and performance. Bringing together international scholars and artists, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the subject. Throughout, Bastard or Playmate? is responsive to the cross-disciplinary use of key concepts such as remediation, digitization, interactivity, corporeality, liveness, surveillance, spectacle, performativity and theatricality. The book guides readers new to the area of intermediality, as well as experienced researchers into one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship. Bastard or Playmate? Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and the Contemporary Performing Arts is the fifth issue of the series Theater Topics. This series contains publications about research in and about theatre, each issue giving a comprehensive overview of research concerning a specific topic. This issue contains contributions by Katia Arfara, Edwin Carels, Jeroen Coppens, Nancy Delhalle, Tom Engels, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Eva Heisler, Evelien Jonckheere, Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw, Elise Morrison, Marco Pustianaz, Frederik Le Roy, Anna Teresa Scheer, Klaas Tindemans, and Nele Wynants.

Introduction: Perhaps the Medium-Specificity of the Contemporary Performing Arts is Mutation?	p. 9
Theatre Between Performance and Installation: Three Contemporary Belgian Examples	p. 17
The Fourth Wall, or the Rift Between Citizen and Government: Another Attempt at a Conceptual Synthesis of Theatre and Politics	p. 31
Using Recorded Images for Political Purposes	p. 43
A Campsite for the Avant-Garde and a Church in Cyberspace: Christoph Schlingensief's Dialogue with Avant-Gardism	p. 57
Echoes from the Animist Past: Abattoir Fermé's Dark Backward and Abysm of Time	p. 77
Folding Mutants or Crumbling Hybrids?: Of Looking Baroque in Contemporary Theatre and Performance	p. 90
Making Unmakeablelove: The Relocation of Theatre	p. 102
Witness Protection?: Surveillance Technologies in Theatrical Performance	p. 121
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Intermedial Reproduction: Rimini Protokoll's Mnemopark	p. 144
Rimini Protokoll's Theatrialization of Reality	p. 153
Digital Landscapes: The Meta-Picturesque Qualities of Kurt d' Haeseleer's Audiovisual Sceneries	p. 161
The Productivity of the Prototype: On Julien Maire's 'Cinema of Contraptions'	p. 178
The Theatre of Recorded Sound and Film: Vacating Performance in Michael Curran's Look What they done to My Song	p. 196
Doubled Bodies and Live Loops: On Ragnar Kjartansson's Mediatized Performances	p. 221
Between Solitaire and a Basketball Game: Dramaturgical Strategies in the Work of Antonia Baehr	p. 238
Index of Subjects	p. 249
Index of Names	p. 256
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