[ebooks] Anatomy for Artists Made Easy (Made Easy (Art)) by George; Jackson; Jake Bridgman in Arts-Photography

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This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts; engaging with the live through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience. The status and significance of the live in performance has become contested: perceived as variously as a marker of ontological difference; a promotional slogan; or a mystical evocation of cultural value. Moving beyond debates about the relationship between the live and the mediated; this collection considers what we can know and say about liveness in terms of processes of experiencing and processes of making. Drawing together contributions from theatre; music; dance; and performance art; it takes an interdisciplinary approach in asking not what liveness is; but how it matters and to whom. The book invites readers to consider how liveness is produced through processes of audiencing - as spectators bring qualities of (a)liveness into being through the nature of their attention - and how it becomes materialized in acts of performance; acts of making; acts of archiving; and acts of remembering. Theoretical chapters and practice-based reflections explore liveness; eventness and nowness as key concepts in a range of topics such as affect; documentation; embodiment; fandom; and temporality; showing how the relationship between audience and event is rarely singular and more often malleable and multiple. With its focus on experiencing liveness; this collection will be of interest to disciplines including performance; audience and cultural studies; visual arts; cinema; and sound technologies.