Anatomy live : performance and the operating theatre / edited by Maaike Bleeker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bleeker, Maaike, editor.

Series:

MediaMatters.

MediaMatters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Philosophy--Congresses.

Theater.

Performance art--Congresses.

Performance art.

Theater--History--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gross anatomy, the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by unassisted vision, has long been a subject of fascination for artists. For most modern viewers, however, the anatomy lesson 'the technically precise province of clinical surgeons and medical faculties' hardly seems the proper breeding ground for the hybrid workings of art and theory. We forget that, in its early stages, anatomy pursued the highly theatrical spirit of Renaissance science, as painters such as Rembrandt and Da Vinci and medical instructors like Fabricius of Aquapendente shared audiences devoted to the workings of the human body. 'Anatomy Live/Performance and the Operating Theatre/ a remarkable consideration of new developments on the stage, as well as in contemporary writings of theorists such as Donna Haraway and Brian Massumi, turns our modern notions of the dissecting table on its head' using anatomical theatre as a means of obtaining a fresh perspective on representations of the body, conceptions of subjectivity, and own knowledge about science and the stage. Critically dissecting well-known exhibitions like 'Body Worlds' and 'The Visible Human Project' and featuring contributions from a number of diverse scholars on such subjects as the construction of spectatorship and the implications of anatomical history, 'Anatomy Live' is not to be missed by anyone with an interest in this engaging intersection of science and artistic practice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Prologue Men with Glass Bodies / Barker, Francis

Introduction / Bleeker, Maaike

Performance Documentation 1: Holoman; Digital Cadaver / Tyler, Mike

Digital Cadavers and Virtual Dissection / Dijck, José van

'Who Were You?': The Visible and the Visceral / Maxwell, Ian

Performance Documentation 2: Excavations : Fresh but Rotten / Boulogne, Marijs

The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Moxham / Ingham, Karen

'Be not faithless but believing': Illusion and Doubt in the Anatomy Theatre / Bouchard, Gianna

Performance Documentation 3: De Anatomische Les / Tetley, Glen

Of Dissection and Technologies of Culture in Actor Training Programs - an Example from 1960's West Germany / Klöck, Anja

Ocular Anatomy, Chiasm, and Theatre Architecture as a Material Phenomenology in Early Modern Europe / Camp, Pannill

Performance Documentation 4: Camillo - Memo 4.0: The Cabinet of Memories - A Tear Donnor Session / Hrvatin, Emil

Martin , Massumi , and The Matrix / Bleeker, Maaike

Performance Documentation 5: sensing presence no. 1: performing a hyperlink system / Copraij / Jenniches / Kunzmann

'Where Are You Now?': Locating the Body in Contemporary Performance / Foster, Susan Leigh

Performance Documentation 6: Under My Skin / Müller, Ivana

Anatomies of Live Art / Norman, Sally Jane

Performance Documentation 7: Crash / Joris, Eric

Restaging the Monstrous / Kunst, Bojana

Delirium of the Flesh: 'All the Dead Voices' in the Space of the Now / Kobialka, Michal

Performance Documentation 8: Körper / Waltz, Sasha

Operating Theatres: Body-bits and a Post-apartheid Aesthetics / Fensham, Rachel

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

9786612171253

9781282171251

1282171259

9789048501229

9048501229

OCLC:

471127262