Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1 : From the Lab to the Streets /: From the Lab to the Streets. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vivian Appler, Meredith Conti, John Lutterbie, Nicola Shaughnessy.
• Editors: Appler, Vivian; Conti, Meredith; Lutterbie, John; Shaughnessy, Nicola
• Contents: List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Taking it to the Streets: Performing Science in Public, Meredith Conti (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) and Vivian Appler (College of Charleston, USA)Part I: Building Community and Imagining Worlds through the Science PerformancePerformance Artists Roundtable, Petra Kuppers (University of Michigan, USA / Artistic Director of The Olimpias), Stephanie Heit (The Olimpias, USA) Lanxing Fu (Co-Director, Superhero Clubhouse, USA), and Jeremy Pickard (Co-Director, Superhero Clubhouse, USA)1. SF For Many Modernities: Hybridity in the Worlds of Margaret Cavendish and Donna Haraway, Vivian Appler (College of Charleston, USA)2. Cultivating Ensembles: A Relational Reflection on Creating Cultural Transformation with New Performances of Science, Raquell M. Holmes (Founder, Improvscience /Arizona State University, USA)3. Shadow Ecologies: Shadow Puppets as Science Performance, Alison 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 de la Torre (Independent Artist / former ART±BIO Cultivo), and Saúl S. Nava (Co-Founder, ART±BIO Collaborative / Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA)Creative Interlude: "Absence, " "Richard Has Gone Fishing" and "Bioengineered Life Lungs", Kate Gillespie (SUNY Cobleskill, USA)Part 2: Performing Science in the Public Laboratory4. A Lecture on Heads and Lectures with Skulls – Performance Transmutations, Marlis Schweitzer (York University, Canada)5. Performing Paleontology at the Natural History Museum, Shelby Brewster (Michigan State University, USA)6. Ether, Sawdust, Sweat, and Blood: Towards a Dramaturgy of Smells in Victorian Operating Theatres, Meredith Conti (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)Creative Interlude: Morehu & Titi, David Geary (Capilano University, Canada)Part 3: Experimentation, Exhibition, and Ethics7. Anatomical Acts: Minstrelsy and Nineteenth-Century Performances of Popular Anatomy, Mia Levenson (Tufts University, USA)8. Staging Science and Humanity in Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest, Radhica Ganapathy (West Virginia University, USA)9. 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 Kokai (University of Pittsburgh, USA)Science Communicators Roundtable, Raven Baxter ('Raven the Science Maven', Founder, STEMbassy, USA), Katherine Inderbitzen (Nautilus Live: Ocean Exploration Trust), and Sahana Srinivasan (Host of Netflix's STEAM children's series Brainchild / actor, comedian, and filmmaker)Selected BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (280 pages)
• Subjects: Interdisciplinary studies; Performing Arts -- Theater -- History & Criticism; Performing Arts -- Theater -- Direction & Production; Science -- Essays; Theatre studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350234079; 1350234079
• Related ISBNs: 9781350234062
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