Experiencing liveness in contemporary performance : interdisciplinary perspectives
- Submitting institution
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York St John University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 162
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138961593
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/1754/
- 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
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This submission represents the culmination of a coherent research process, the research outputs of which are manifested in a single-authored full-length chapter and co-authored volume and section introductions. The collection takes a cross-disciplinary perspective, embracing dance, music, theatre and performance art, and seeks to re-orientate debates from considerations of what liveness is to investigations of how it matters and to whom. The collection is therefore both part of a long-running debate in performance studies regarding the status of the live, but also a realignment in relation to more recent thinking about audience engagement and affect.
The research processes originated through the appointment in 2013-14 of Reason as visiting Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark, where he worked with co-editor Anja Molle Lindelof. Discussions and shared research papers were developed alongside other researchers who would later be invited to contribute to this collection. The research contribution of Matthew Reason therefore embraces that of contributing author, but also of research design and the curation of a book length investigation of liveness as a matter of experience rather than ontology.
The introduction (co-authored Reason and Lindelof) sets out the theoretical framework for the collection, constructing liveness not in opposition to the recorded but as a facet of attention and experience. The two section introductions then frame the debate, offering definitions of liveness in terms of audiencing (the work of the spectator) and materiality (liveness as a particular active form, with particular affordances). Reason’s sole authored chapter, ‘Affect and Experience’, draws upon theoretical, empirical and situated material to make the case for ‘affective experience making’ as a way of describing processes of audience sense making and sense having.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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