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Book SynopsisThis collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches. It is interested in interactions between bodies and other bodies, bodies and environments, and bodies and objects.
Trade ReviewWhat does it mean to feel? Sentient Performativities of Embodiment considers both the social resonance and the political stakes of this question by concentrating the study of affect more closely upon the site of the inexorably mortal human body. By convening an impressive group of scholars whose research sites challenge simplistic distinctions between 'the aesthetic' and 'the real,' Hunter, Krimmer, and Lichtenfels have crafted an anthology that compels us to return our attention to the lived complexity of feeling as a material register of human experience. This beautifully curated book will expand critical conversations between affect studies and performance studies, restoring in our consideration of feeling the fleshy, corporeal timbre of the felt. -- Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego
Sentient Performativities of Embodiment: Thinking alongside the Human is an immense effort; broad in scope and comprehensive in its attempt to foreground practice-based research in the Arts. This type of scholarship has been gaining ground within a number of prominent institutions and the authors should be congratulated for bringing the views of so many excellent artists/scholars together in one volume. -- Henry Daniel, Simon Fraser University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ways of Knowing and Ways of Being Known by Lynette Hunter Part I: The Body in Performance—Somatic Complexity Chapter 1. Weird Embodiment by Timothy Morton Chapter 2. The Senses and Sciences of Fascia: a Practice as Research Investigation by Joseph Dumit and Kevin O’Connor Chapter 3. The Petrie Dish: Somatic Praxis, Embryology, Becoming in Marie Chouinard’s “The Rite of Spring” by Hilary Bryan Chapter 4. The Performativity of Performance: Doing Things with Bodies and What Words Might Do in Relation to That. A Lecture/Demonstration (Not for the Squeamish) by Jess Curtis Part II: The Body in Performance—Attentiveness Chapter 5. Enminded Performance: Dancing with a Horse by Nita Little Chapter 6. JUST LIKE THAT: William Forsythe || Between Movement and Language by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi Chapter 7. Her Heart Can Lift Mountains by Beating: Form and Formlessness in Performance Process by Sean Feit Part III: The Body in Performance—Emergence Chapter 8. Transversal Affectivity and the Lobster: Intimate Advances of Deleuze and Guattari, Rodrigo Garcia and La Carnicería Teatro, and Jan Lauwers and Needcompany by Bryan Reynolds & Guy Zimmerman Chapter 9. Kantor’s DIRECTOR: “I will be myself, but I will be with the actors” by Peter Lichtenfels Part IV: Bodies Walking, Bodies Writing Chapter 10. Where Can Walking Be Taking Me? by Álvaro Iván Hernández Rodríguez Chapter 11. Walking with/Com-Pains: (Re-)(Em)bodying Missteps and Messmates by Ilya Noé Chapter 12. Walking Home: A Feminist Tracing of Home and Belonging by Maureen Burdock Part V: Bodies—Critical Race, Politics and History Chapter 13. Jewish Ears and Aryan Dirndls: National Socialist Racial Ideology and Jewish Identity by Elisabeth Krimmer Chapter 14. “So That They Never Forget the Holocaust:” Memorial Tattoos and Embodied Holocaust Remembrance by Verena Hutter Chapter 15. Presidential Dancing: The Bodies of Heads of State by Maxine Leeds Craig Chapter 16. Socialization through the Arts: Katherine Dunham as Social Activist by Halifu Osumare
