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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.

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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

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´This book offers terrific insights into performance and intimacy by exploring and yoking ´visceral´ and ´digital´ performance(s), each of which can significantly affect the nature and experience of intimacy. The authors use inventive approaches to generate critical and innovative discussions of intimacy in/and performance.´ - Professor Joanne Tompkins, School of English, Media Studies, and Art History, University of Queensland, Australia

´This collection provides a very useful critical context for thinking about the visceral and the digital, and it offers a range of approaches and practices that will be of interest to scholars and students in performance and theatre studies. It presents a rich and timely selection of work from artists, scholars, and curators that draws a significant trajectory of intimacy in digital and body-based practices and will add to the ever-growing field of intimate, one-to-one, and technology-based work.´ - Eirini Kartsaki, Contemporary Theatre Review

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