Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance Volume 2 : From the Curious to the Quantum /: From the Curious to the Quantum. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vivian Appler, Meredith Conti, Nicola Shaughnessy, John Lutterbie.
• Editors: Appler, Vivian; Conti, Meredith; Prof, Shaughnessy, Nicola; Professor, Lutterbie, John
• Contents: List of IllustrationsList of TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Entangled Domains: Revealing the Productive Tensions of Art and Science, Meredith Conti (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) and Vivian Appler (University of Georgia, USA)PART ONE: Performing Human and More-than-Human RelationshipsClimate, Colonization, and Performance Roundtable Claudia Barnett (Middle Tennessee State University, USA), Chantal Bilodeau (Playwright, USA), David Geary (Capilano University, Canada), Kirsten Lindquist (University of Alberta, Canada), and Kim TallBear (University of Alberta, Canada)Creative Interlude: Critical Polyamorist 100s: 'Mistress of the Shears (8.29.19)'; 'Winona Quarantine (04.14.20)'; 'River Quantum: Instructions for Babygirl (05.13.20)', Kim TallBear (University of Alberta, Canada)1. Staging the Mad Past: Performance, Criticism, and Historiography in Steppenwolf Theatre Company's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Alexis Riley (Independent scholar, USA)2. Through Fish Eyes: Raising Awareness of Ocean Degradation through Performance, Madhvi Venkatesh (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA) and Kasi Aysola (Dance artist, USA)3. Labouring the Medical: Female Bodies for Sale on the Contemporary Stage, Gianna Bouchard (University of Birmingham, UK)Creative Interlude: 'Please Let Me Shoot You: A Monologue', Claudia Barnett (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)PART TWO: Challenging Traditions Through the Science Performance4. 'Spooky('s) Action at A Distance': Remixing Relations between Science and Performanc, Mike Vanden Heuvel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)5. Using Short Digital Films to Counter Stereotypes about Scientists of Color and from Marginalized Backgrounds, Mónica Feliú-Mójer (Ciencia Puerto Rico and Science Communication Lab, USA)5. Celestial Politics: Performance and the Cosmic Underclass, Felipe Cervera (UCLA, USA)Creative Interlude: 'Mother' Chantal Bilodeau (Playwright, USA)PART THREE: Revising the Art-Science Repertoire7. Performing and Negotiating Imperialism: Science, Agriculture, and Food in Puerto Rico, Teófilo Espada-Brignoni (University of Puerto Rico)8. Brecht's Leben des Galilei, Science, and Identity Crisis in Germany, Derek Gingrich (Lux Research Inc., USA)9. 'Let science and art have at it': The Living Newspapers Perform Science to Promote Depression-era Theatre/Squonk Performs Theatre to Promote Trump-era Science, Emily Klein (Saint Mary's College of California, USA)Creative Interlude: Excerpt from 'Variation for Three Voices on a Letter to Nature', Diane Stubbings (Playwright and critic, Australia)The Catastrophist Artists' Roundtable William DeMeritt (Actor, director, and educator, USA) Martine Kei Green-Rogers (DePaul University, USA), and Lauren Gunderson (Playwright, USA)Creative Interlude: Excerpt from The Catastrophist, Lauren Gunderson (Playwright, USA)Selected BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: Interdisciplinary studies; Popular science; Performing Arts -- Theater -- History & Criticism; Performing Arts -- Theater -- Direction & Production; Science -- Essays; Theatre studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350234277
• Related ISBNs: 9781350234260
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