Overview
- Provides the first comprehensive examination of how experimental embodiment is being creatively repurposed by artists
- Scrutinises the complex ethical considerations involved
- Takes a multidisciplinary approach across immersive theatre scholarship, studies in intermediality/new media and neuroscientific experiments in body-ownership
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology (PSPT)
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This book offers a wide-ranging examination of acts of ‘virtual embodiment’ in performance/gaming/applied contexts that abstract an immersant’s sense of physical selfhood by instating a virtual body, body-part or computer-generated avatar. Emergent ‘immersive’ practices in an increasingly expanding and cross-disciplinary field are coinciding with a wealth of new scientific knowledge in body-ownership and self-attribution. A growing understanding of the way a body constructs its sense of selfhood is intersecting with the historically persistent desire to make an onto-relational link between the body that ‘knows’ an experience and bodies that cannot know without occupying their unique point of view. The author argues that the desire to empathize with another’s ineffable bodily experiences is finding new expression in contexts of particular urgency. For example, patients wishing to communicate their complex physical experiences to their extended networks of support in healthcare, orcommunities placing policymakers ‘inside’ vulnerable, marginalized or disenfranchised virtual bodies in an attempt to prompt personal change. This book is intended for students, academics and practitioner-researchers studying or working in the related fields of immersive theatre/art-making, arts-science and VR in applied performance practices.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Liam Jarvis is a researcher, theatre maker and Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex, UK. Since 2007, he has been co-director of Analogue, whose work has toured the UK and Europe. His research and teaching have focused on immersion, embodiment and contemporary participatory practices in (post)digital culture. He has published numerous book chapters and articles in journals such as Performance Research and the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. He is currently co-convener of the Intermediality in Theatre & Performance Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) and a board member for Theatre-Rites.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Immersive Embodiment
Book Subtitle: Theatres of Mislocalized Sensation
Authors: Liam Jarvis
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27971-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27970-7Published: 28 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27973-8Published: 28 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27971-4Published: 15 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-5848
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5856
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Theatre, Contemporary Theatre, Performing Arts