Sole editorship and Editorial in a Special Issue of Performance Research 'On Ice'
- Submitting institution
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University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
: A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Output identifier
- 1885581
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1080/13528165.2013.908049
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis/Routledge
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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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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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Drama, Theatre and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- From the outset, Performance Research has excelled in proposing unusual themes, explored through both artistic-led research and rigorous scholarly and theoretical enquiry, that have often resulted in sub-genres and transnational clusters of performance studies. On Ice pushed those boundaries further and was an audacious challenge to the discipline. Entirely conceived and framed by Gough, this issue of the journal appeared in the public domain in May 2014 as attested by the publisher Taylor & Francis. In addition to Gough’s own introductory essay, Cold Cuts (8,500 words), he edited all eighteen of the other contributions (selected from over sixty proposals) and sought a balance between incorporating material and metaphorical explorations of ice, real and imagined experience of ice, and the play of ice in/on performance. He nurtured collaborations from artists and scholars from Europe, Australasia and the Americas. Over the last six years the issue has influenced subsequent developments in the field of performance studies and two edited books on ice and performance have appeared.
The curatorial impulse for this issue was to ask what possibilities exist for theatre and performance to take on the condition of ice? Strength and fragility, exquisite structure yet impermanence, ephemerality and transience, embodying cool detachment, able to suspend and release time in unmeasured duration, retaining disinterest and distance? On Ice includes reflective and speculative works for the page on performance and ice as well as historical accounts and in-¬depth critiques of ice and theatre across time and cultures, from ritual to folk customs, to performance art, civic ceremony, climate-¬change awareness and the use of ice and performance in acts of protest, contemplation, resistance and defiance. This elemental approach to speculating on and apprehending performance has proved efficacious. Issues on Earth and Air are scheduled for 2022/23.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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