Kinetic Atmospheres: Performance and Immersion by Johannes Birringer
performance environments,
emerging and multisensational atmospheres
hypersensorial scenographies
This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities.
performance environments,
emerging and multisensational atmospheres
hypersensorial scenographies
Johannes Birringer is a choreographer and media artist. Since 2004 he has co-directed the Design and Performance Lab and headed the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance at Brunel University London, where he teaches performance technologies. DAP-Lab's immersive dance installations, metakimospheres, began touring in 2015-19. He is author of Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism; Media and Performance: Along the Border; Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture; and Performance, Science & Technology.
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction: theatre, atmospheres, living systems
2. Collaboration: sustainable subjects
3. Really actually windy
4. The openness of the atmosphere: internal and external imagination
5. Trans-sensory hallucination
6. Composition of atmospheres: floating islands
7. Projection environments and animated light
8. The stage and its screen double
9. Kinetic atmospheres: sounding off
Bibliography
Index