Consisting of critical analyses, theoretical provocations and practical reflections by leading scholars/practitioners from the fields of performance studies, live art and creative technology, these essays examine the rise of intimate performance works and question the socio-historical contexts provoking those aesthetic and affective developments.
List of Illustrations Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: M.Chatzichristodoulou & R.Zerihan PART I: ETHICAL READINGS OF POLITICAL INTIMACIES The Body in Your Lap; T.Warr Not Citizens But Persons: The Ethics in Action of Performance's Intimate Work; S.Jones Collapsing Alibis; B.Kuburovic PART II: FAMILIAR INTIMACIES: BODILY FUIDS AND MICROBIOLOGY The Hazardous Conversation: The Practice of Intimacy in Performance at the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home; G.Anderson & L.Simic , with Neal, Gabriel and Sid Mother's Milk: The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar and Other Intimate Performance Works; J.Dobkin The Normal Flora Project: Intimate Revelations in Art and Science; A.Dumitriu PART III: ABUSE, PERVERSION AND OBSCENITY: KNOTTY INTIMACIES IN CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE PRACTICES Ecstatic Intervals: Performance in a Continuum of Intimacy; D.Johnson Between Bodies: An Artist's Account of the Oral Connection Between Human and Dog; A.Bartram Intimate Pervy Avatars; S.Baldwin PART IV: VISCERAL TECHNOLOGIES: FROM MYSPACE TO MY BODY Intimare; E.Manning Bodies of Colour/Media Skins; J.Birringer BioMuse to Bondage: Corporeal Interaction in Performance and Exhibition; A.Tanaka PART V: AN INTIMATE DISTANCE APART (Dis)Embodiment; P.Sermon Katie Mitchell: Intimate Technologies in Multimedia Performance; J.Jefferies & E.Papadaki Intimacy, Delicacy and Indifference: Ane Lan's Migrating Birds; J.Kelleher A Discussion on the Subject of Intimacy in Performance, and an Afterword; M.Chatzichristodoulou & R.Zerihan Bibliography Index
