Performing Arousal : Precarious Bodies and Frames of Representation (Hardcover)

INTRODUCTION (Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida, US, and Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa, Canada) SECTION ONE - PLEASURED BODY Chapter 1: Violence, Puppetness and the Female Simulacrum as Mediated Body/Object in the Central European Avant-Garde (Tim Butler Garrett, visiting lecturer Wimbledon College of Art, UK) Chapter 2: Blood and Desire: Collaborating Through Arousal (Alissa Clarke, De Montfort University, UK) Chapter 3: Live Lips vs. Suspended Animation: Interrogating Arousal in the Avant-garde Performance Archive (Lara Cox, American University Paris, France) Chapter 4: "Upside-Down": The Rough Play of Narcissister's Avant-Porn (Rebecca Clark, Dartmouth Society of Fellows, UK) SECTION TWO - POLITICAL BODY Chapter 5: Hoch's Weimar and Wilhelm: Em-Bodied Critiques of Ideology in Dadist Photomontage (J. Brandon Pelcher, Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, US) Chapter 6: The Collisions of Reality Friction: Tactics of Structural Ambiguity in Christoph Schlingensief's Bitte Liebt Osterreich (Tony Perucci, University of North Carolina, US) Chapter 7: Pussy Riot's Guerrillas Performances and Mediatized Images of Violence: Transgressing Bodies, Boundaries and Ethics of Representation (Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida, US) Chapter 8: Performing Body as a Site for Feminist Theatrical Discourse: Theatre of Anuradha Kapur (Indu Jain) Artistic Intervention One: "Lifeforce" (Naila Keleta-Mae, University of Waterloo, Canada) SECTION THREE - TRANS/BODY Chapter 9: Dali's Dream of Venus, Ripley's Odditorium, and Able-bodied Heteronormativity at the 1939 New York World's Fair (Keri Watson, University of Central Florida) Chapter 10: Catherine's Rire de la meduse: Text and Body in Hemingway's Garden of Eden (Catherine Clark, Averett University Virginia, US) Chapter 11: Sacrificed Female Bodies: Necropolitics and its Intrusion in Intimacy as an Accomplishment of Tragedy (Selim Rauer, PhD candidate, University of Minnesota, US) Chapter 12: Both Sides, Now: Arousing Gestures and A Dramaturgy of Beyond End-of-Life (Alvin Eng Hui LIM, National University of Singapore, Singapore) SECTION FOUR - ABJECT BODY Chapter 13: The Knee, the Elbow, the Face: On Body as Synecdoche in Vladimir Nabakov's Visual Imagination (Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa, Canada) Chapter 14: The Thinking Body in Handspring Puppet Company (Dawn Tracey Brandes, Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University, Canada) Chapter 15: Transformation and Arousal: The Pleasure of Performative Indeterminacy in Persona Theatre Company's Phaedra I-- (Avra Sidiropoulou, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Chapter 16: Signaling Through the Flames: Media Imagery and the Embodied Empathic Gaze (Dorita Hannah, practitioner/scholar) Artistic Intervention Two: The MIGRANTO Collective: Street Performance Research Project (Artur Matuck, Karina Quintanilha and Daniel Perseguim) Bibliography Index