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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.
'This intensely complex book offers a language that can illuminate the multiplicity of the embodied experiences of the mediated and mediating body. The language simultaneously dissolves and clarifies the psycho-physical boundaries between performer and audience. The complexity is thus transformed into intricacy and amplification.
This publication will appeal to practitioner-researchers in the fields of movement and somatic practice, visual arts and performing arts who are grappling with the realities of research creation that is enmeshed in both the body and digital media. Technologists and new media artists may find the precise theoretical application to concrete, body-based and mediated creative works illuminating for their understanding of the parity and fusion of the corporeal and the technological.'
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