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Where do we find the dead? Do the dead appear in our dreams? What is it like to play dead? This book is an exciting exploration of the relationship between death and play in performance. Exploring a range of artists and creative disciplines that remember, personify and re-imagine the dead, it playfully unpacks the psychoanalytic concepts of the Death Drive, Desire and the Uncanny as a way of thinking about performance. Embodying the Dead draws on work of Gary Winters and Claire Hind and the various qualities of deadness found in their projects. The authors' work includes live art, theatre, installation, Super 8mm film, walking arts practice and durational performance. This book includes scripts and scores of their performances, original creative texts, interviews with internationally renowned artists and a series of practice-led research tasks to support readers creating their own imaginative performance work.
Rich in creative and critical content, this book is ideal for students of drama, theatre and performance studies who have an interest in devised theatre, theatre making, writing for performance and intermedial practice.
Published | Nov 21 2019 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 232 |
ISBN | 9781137602916 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Illustrations | 240 bw illus |
Dimensions | Not specified |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Embodying the Dead is unique in its deep reflection on the performance practice of the writers. The tasks for artists are innovative and well-written and the distinctive character of the book is its overall readability, humour and informal tone.
Anna Fenemore, University of Leeds, UK
This original and engaging piece of work explores the role of death and the dead in Gary and Claire's performance work in an illuminating approach that interweaves critically informed reflections on psychoanalytical concepts with play theory.
Karoline Gritzner, University of Graz, Austria
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