Over the past decades, a fundamental epistemological shift has transformed notions of performativity and representation in the arts under the influence of new technologies. Mediation has challenged both spectators' and performers' conventions of corporeality, embodiment, cognition and perception. Centring on contemporary synaesthetic and multimodal works, Through the Prism of the Senses examines new theory and practice in body-based arts and contemporary performance. Three main chapters present three distinct strands of methodological enquiry, one from each author, creating a work that resonates with artistic and philosophical enquiry. This book is a vital contribution to discussions surrounding research creation and the body in relation to digital media, highlighting the ways in which new technologies confront the sensate, somatic body.
A French-language version is to be published by Presses de l'Université du Québec (ISBN 978-2-76055-148-0). This includes additional chapters in English by Erin Manning, David Howes, and Luc Vanier and Elizabeth Johnson. A Spanish-language version is to be published by Centro Editoral Universidad de Caldas.
Autorentext
Dr. Isabelle Choinière is an international artist, researcher, author and teacher of new contemporary performative practices integrating technology, with a Ph.D. from Planetary Collegium - Transdisciplinary Space Research/Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Integrative Arts, Plymouth University, UK. Her main works to date include Communion (1994-99); La démence des anges (1999-2005); Meat Paradoxe (2005-10); Flesh Waves (2013) and Phase #5 (2016-), productions that have toured internationaly in major festivals. They have also been referenced as case studies for research groups in universities around the world since 1994. Choinière's research has been published widely in English, French and Portuguese, along with her activity as a guest chief-editor for a double issue of Technoetic Arts (2015). In 2019-20 she will publish Through the Prism of the Senses: Mediation and New Realities of the Body in Contemporary Performance: Technologies, Cognition and Emergent Research-Creation Methodologies (in three languages). She is an affiliate professor (School of Media), and postdoctoral transdisciplinary researcher (Award FRQSC 2017-19 - Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et Culture) (Arts Faculty), with Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). She is the main organizer of the Cybercorporéités: Subjectivités nomades en contexte numérique (International Colloquium Cybercorporealities: Nomadic Subjectivities in Digital Context) (Connection Grants-SSHRC/CRSH 2018) http://oic.uqam.ca/fr/evenements/colloque-cybercorporeites-subjectivites-nomades-en-contexte-numerique. She is a member of international research groups such as FIGURA (UQÀM) and Planetary Collegium Research Network.
Inhalt
Introduction
Chapter 1: The prism of perception. Corporeality between intermedial stages and environments - Enrico Pitozzi
Chapter 2: Seismographies of mediated bodies. A logic of creation - Isabelle Choinière
Chapter 3: The Mediated/Mediating Body - Andrea Davidson
Conclusion
Postface - Derrick de Kerckhove