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  title info:
    title: Posthuman Spiritualities in Contemporary Performance
    sub title: Politics, Ecologies and Perceptions
  name:
    name part: Battista, Silvia.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 220 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides an interpretative analysis of the notion of spirituality through the lens of contemporary performance and posthuman theories. The book examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape(2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib. Through the analysis of these works the notion of spirituality is grounded in materiality and embodiment allowing the conceptual juxtaposition of spirit and matter to introduce the paradoxical as the guiding thread of the narrative of the book. Here, the human is interrogated and negotiated with/within a plurality of other living organisms, intangible existences and micro and macrocosmic ecologies. Silence, meditation, shamanic journeys, reciprocal gazing, restraint, and contemplation are analyzed as technologies used to manipulate perception and adventure into the multilayered condition of matter.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Reciprocating the Gaze of Others: The Artist is Present by Marina Abramovic -- 3. The Quaker Meditative Room and the Performing Eye: Deer Shelter Skyscape by James Turrell -- 4. Vipassana Meditation as an Introspective Theatre: Cat by Ansuman Biswas -- 5. When the Spirits are Socially Engaged: Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates -- 6. The Ecological Implications of Spiritual Gestures: Work with Pollen by Wolfgang Laib -- 7. Conclusive Thoughts.
  note: by Silvia Battista.
  subject:
    topic: Theater
  subject:
    topic: Performing arts
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Contemporary Theatre
  subject:
    topic: Performing Arts
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  classification: PN2000-3307
  classification: 792
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319897585
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89758-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 180619
    record change date: 20191026041634.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-89758-5