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

List of Figures Acknowledgments Body and Arousal: On Social, Cultural, Scientific, and Artistic Experiment: Introduction - Julia Listengarten and Yana Meerzon Section One Pleasured Body 1 Kokoschka's Fetish: Violence, Puppetness, and the Female Simulacrum as Mediated Body/Object in the Central European Avant-Garde - Tim Butler Garrett 2 Dali's Dream of Venus: Sex, Surrealism, and Disability at the 1939 New York World's Fair - Keri Watson 3 Blood and Desire: Collaborating through Arousal - Alissa Clarke 4 Getting Lippy with the Patriarchy: Contemporary Women Artists' "Lip Art" - Lara Cox 5 Transformation and Arousal: The Pleasure of Performative Indeterminacy in Persona Theatre Company's Phaedra I - Avra Sidiropoulou Section Two Political Body 6 Hoch's Weimar and Wilhelm: Rundschau's Avant-Garde Reframing - J. Brandon Pelcher 7 The Dissonance of Resonating Bodies and the Collisions of Reality Friction: Structures of Ambiguity in Christoph Schlingensief's Bitte Liebt Osterreich - Tony Perucci 8 The Sacrificed Young Woman: Necropolitics and Patriarchy in Koffi Kwahule's Bintou - Selim Rauer 9 Pussy Riot's Radical Acts: Transgressive Bodies in Performance and the Ghosting of the Russian Avant-Garde - Julia Listengarten 10 Body as Site for Feminist Theatrical Discourse: A Pedagogic and Performative Experiment with Arousing Images by Anuradha Kapur - Indu Jain 11 Both Sides, Now: Between Narratives of Decline and Gestures of Care - Alvin Eng Hui Lim Section Three Abject Body 12 The Knee, the Elbow, the Face: On Body as Abject in Vladimir Nabokov's Visual Imagination - Yana Meerzon 13 Trauma, Ethics, and the Puppet Body in Handspring Puppet Company - Dawn Tracey Brandes 14 "Upside Down": The Rough Play of Narcissister's Avant-Porn - Rebecca Clark 15 Queer Epistemologies in the Making of Queer Makishi: Visibility, Trans-position, and Devised Performance Practice - Johann Robert Wood 16 Island Icarus: Signaling through the Flames as Critical Performance Design - Dorita Hannah List of Contributors Index