Identity, culture, and the science performance. Volume 1, From the lab to the streets / edited by Vivian Appler and Meredith Conti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Appler, Vivian, editor.

Conti, Meredith, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues.

Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in science.

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Medical Subjects:

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

From the lab to the streets

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Methuen Drama, 2022.

Contents:

Introduction: Taking it to the Streets: Performing Science in the Public Eye / Meredith Conti (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) and Vivian Appler (College of Charleston, USA) Creative

Interlude: Science poetry / Kathleen Gillespie (SUNY, Cobleskill, USA)

Part I: Creating Community through the Science Performance. 1. Cultivating Ensembles: New Performances of Science / Raquell Holmes (Founder, Improvscience /Arizona State University, USA) ; 2. Performing Outreach: The Aesthetics of Art-Science Collaborations / Felipe Cervera (LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore / University of Toronto, Canada) ; 3. Shadow Ecologies: Shadow Puppets as Science Performance / Allison Dell (St. Francis College, USA / Co-Founder, Art in the Lab), Stephanie Dowdy-Nava (Co-Founder, ART ±BIO Collaborative / Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA), Armando del la Torre (Independent Artist / former ART ±BIO Cultivo), and Saúl S. Nava (Co-Founder, ART ±BIO Collaborative / Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA)

Interview I: Science Communicators Panel / Raven Baxter ('Raven the Science Maven', University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA / Founder, STEMbassy), Katie Inderbitzen (Nautilus Live: Ocean Exploration Trust), and Sahana Srinivasan (Host of Netflix's STEAM children's series Brainchild / actor, comedian, and filmmaker) ; Creative Interlude: Scene from OWN NOW! / by David Geary (Coordinator, Motion Picture Arts (MOPA), Instructor MOPA & Indigenous Independent Digital Filmmaking, English, Capilano University, Canada / playwright and screenwriter, New Zealand)

Part II: Performing Science in the Public Laboratory. 4. The Lecture on Heads and Lectures with Skulls

Performance Transmutations / Marlis Schweitzer (York University, Canada) ; 5. Performing Paleontology at the Natural History Museum / Shelby Brewster (University of Pittsburgh, USA) ; 6. Ether, Sawdust, Sweat, and Blood: Of Smells and Victorian Operating Theatres / Meredith Conti (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) ; Interview II: Performance Artists Panel, The Olimpias and Superhero Clubhouse / represented by Petra Kuppers (University of Michigan, USA / Artistic Director of The Olimpias), Lanxing Fu (Co-Director, Superhero Clubhouse, NY, USA), and Jeremy Pickard (Co-Director, Superhero Clubhouse, NY, USA) ; Creative Interlude: Performance poetry

The Olimpias (Artists' collective and performance research series, USA)

Part III: Experimentation, Exhibition, and Ethics. 7. Anatomical Acts: Minstrelsy and Nineteenth-Century Performances of Popular Anatomy / Mia Levenson (Tufts University, USA) ; 8. Embodiment and Ontological Fragility in the Fabrication of Early Royal Society Taxa / Scott Venters (University of Washington, USA) ; 9. Staging Science and Humanity: Contested Spaces in Harvest / Radhica Ganapathy (West Virginia University, USA) ; 10. Do Goats Have a Right to Cigarettes? A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of the Ethics of Non-Human Animal Performances / Jennifer A. Kokai (Weber State University, USA) and Lauren E. Kokai (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA)

Afterword

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Identity, culture, and the science performanc

ISBN:

9781350234079

1350234079

9781350234086

1350234087

9781350234109

1350234109

Publisher Number:

99992477102

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