Viral Performance : Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age /
"Digital culture has occasioned a seismic shift in the discourse around contagion, transmission, and viral circulation. Yet theater, in the cultural imagination, has always been contagious. Viral Performance proposes the concept of the viral as an essential means of understanding socially engag...
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A history of contagion
- Performing plague : the Living Theatre and Antonin Artaud
- Towards an audience vocabulary : Marc Estrin, Augusto Boal, and General Idea
- Germ theater : Critical Art Ensemble, Eva and Franco Mattes, and Christoph Schlingensief
- "Everything is everywhere": viral performance networks
- Conclusion: Virus in the theater.