Justitia: Multidisciplinary readings of the work of Jasmin Vardimon Company
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33-04/330003
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Intellect
- ISBN
- 9781783205288
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The research question that underpinned Justitia was how the varied experiences (both production and reception) of a complex multi-modal performance can be documented. The wide disciplinary range of contributors (philosophy, art, dance, theatre, law, etc.), the complex visual layering of text and image, and the bringing together of production and reception all demonstrate an originality of approach.
The book emerged out of ongoing discussions between a small group of academics and the theatre company. An event was held where a range of respondents were brought to see a performance of Justitia in a large rehearsal space, and those respondents then wrote initial reactions to that performance overnight that were delivered in an extended seminar. Many (but not all) of these responses were developed to form the texts second half of the book, with the deliberate direction to retain the original ‘feeling’ of the initial, quickly written response.
The first half of the book, documenting the performance, brings together the various ‘raw’ documentation (photographs and the script) and using various transparencies and typographic layering tries to find a way on the page of capturing an experience of the performance. These techniques were then extended through into the second half of the book, as echoes and ripples of the performance carried through into the responses.
The company were very clear that they did not want to present any sense of a ‘correct’ reading of the performance, and that the multiplicity of responses was the way in which we ensured that did not happen. Justitia was the first book length study of Jasmin Vardimon Company, and offers a model for documenting performance.
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- Non-English
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