Re: [-empyre-] Wearable Technologies, or dances with sound

2011-05-13 Thread Johannes Birringer
hi all: the comments on spectacle (in the larger cultural or political sense) are surely interesting, as the everyday has not yet been addressed here yet, ...i think some of recent examples in our conversation were from stage/theatrical performance and fashion shows, and the exhibition/art

Re: [-empyre-] Wearable Technologies

2011-05-13 Thread Ashley Ferro-Murray
Hi everyone, Thanks to Danielle and Johannes for continuing the thread on audience/performer. Indeed, an old debate. Still, one that increasingly weighs on decisions regarding the rehearsal process and performance practice as they relate to wearables and various performance technologies. I am

[-empyre-] the body in performance

2011-05-13 Thread Kettley, Sarah
Ashley, That's a really interesting point you bring up about how the normative body is configured through the realisation of wearable technology (as fantasy?), and something that philosopher Don Ihde talks about in his book Bodies in Technology. Today I met with Isabel Jones of Salamanda