Vol 4 Emergences: 21st-Century Performance

Edited by Peter Eckersall, Edward Scheer, and Helena Grehan

In this, the fourth volume of Performance Paradigm, we explore emergent themes in performance and culture in the first decade of 21st century.

Articles: Sam Trubridge, Meiling Cheng, Lise Brenner, Ulrich Lorimer and Katrina Simon, Pamela Karantonis, Angela Campbell, Beth Kurkijian, Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse, Anja Kanngieser, Eirini Nedelkopoulou, Kate Rossmanith, Diana Smith, and Jeffery M. Morris.

Book Reviews: Peter Eckersall on Judie Christie, Richard Gough, and Daniel Watt, Mika Eglinton on Rustom Bharucha, Ian Maxwell on Mike Pearson, David Moody on Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, Meg Mumford on Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout, and Maggi Phillips on Ramsay Burt.

Table of Contents

Articles

Introduction – Performance and Critical Optimism
Peter Eckersall, Edward Scheer, Helena Grehan
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Terrifying Grief
Sam Trubridge
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Down and Under, Up and Over: Animalworks by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Meiling Cheng
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Mapping Native Flora in NYC: The Chorography of Collaboration
Lise Brenner, Ulrich Lorimer, Katrina Simon
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‘Leave No Trace’: The Art of Wasted Space– The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft
Pamela Karantonis
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The More I Study Nature: Georgiana Molloy and the Code of Modernity
Angela Campbell
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Optimism and Pessimism: Cynthia Hopkins Returns to the Stage as an Alien Mother
Beth Kurkjian
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Becoming Human/Artist: Humans Moving in Accord with the Change that Makes the World
Elizabeth Ellsworth, Jamie Kruse
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‘Mobility is our goal!’: challenging perceptions towards citizenship, migration and asylum seeking through performative interventions
Anja Kanngieser
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The Augmented Theatre in Virtualised Society: See You in Walhalla
Eirini Nedelkopoulou
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We Are Cells: BioArt, Semi-Livings, and Visceral Threat
Kate Rossmanith
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‘Dragging’ Liveness in the Video Art of The Kingpins
Diana Smith
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Embracing a Mediat[is]ed Modernity: An Approach to Exploring Humanity in Posthuman Music
Jeffrey M. Morris
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Book Reviews

Judie Christie, Richard Gough, Daniel Watt (eds.), A Performance Cosmology: Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past. London & New York: Routledge, published for the Centre for Performance Research, 2006.
Peter Eckersall
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Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin, Rustom Bharucha (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Mika Eglinton
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“In Comes I”: Performance, Memory and Landscape, Mike Pearson
Ian Maxwell
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Performance and Place, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
David Moody
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Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion, eds. Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).
Meg Mumford
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The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities, (Second Edition), Ramsay Burt (London and New York: Routledge, 2007).
Maggi Phillips
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