The Punchdrunk encyclopaedia
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 882
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315150352
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138556782
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/27854/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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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
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The format and organisation of content was co-concieved with Punchdrunk, with entries developed by Machon. Machon also conducted and edited extensive interviews with all the artists involved. Further, exercises and invited contributions from core members/associate artists were co-authored or carefully edited by Machon. The full process including autonomous research, compilation of original materials and authorial role, reflects that of a monograph, whilst being more innovative in its realisation. As a hybrid artistic/academic text, it combines documentation on practice with contextual analysis, bridging a theory-practice divide.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This definitive book on Punchdrunk marks its 18th anniversary and inclusion as a core practitioner for FE performance/theatre/drama courses. A hybrid artistic/academic text, it combines documentation on practice with contextual analysis, bridging a theory-practice divide. Written for a broad readership comprising Punchdrunk’s fanbase, FE markets and academic scholars.
The publication charts Punchdrunk’s history and practice to track the evolution of Punchdrunk’s aesthetic and dramaturgical processes. Contextual analysis benefits from hitherto unseen personal documents belonging to Barrett alongside new and original interview material. It offers unparalleled insight to the working processes of Punchdrunk’s pioneering approach to immersive theatre. By addressing experimentation across dance, space, scenography and audience, new insights are articulated around experiential aesthetics. The encyclopaedic format plays with an iterative and non-linear form which echoes Punchdrunk’s process and the looped composition of its large-scale masked shows. Careful editing ensures the analysis addresses and probes questions that immersive practice more broadly elicits and offers points of departure for discussion and practice in classroom and studio settings.
Publicised via a national/international press release (November 2018), global sales (December 2018 onwards) are supported by presence on Punchdrunk’s website. A Christmas-event-cum-performance-experience launch at Temple Place, for collaborators, keyholders and leading figures from the creative industries (December 2018). Punchdrunk/Routledge social media coverage targeted international audiences, premiering a 360-interactive campaign, alongside an interview in No Proscenium, a USA-wide immersive platform (January 2019). Invitée d'honneur, Machon’s keynote, publicised the encyclopaedia, at Sorbonne Université at Théâtre Lepic, Paris, January 2020.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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