Woven bodies, woven cultures

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Boddington, G. 2012. Woven bodies, woven cultures. in: Broadhurst, S. and Machon, J. (ed.) Identity, performance and technology: practices of empowerment, embodiment and technicity Pelgrave Macmillan. pp. 77-90
Chapter titleWoven bodies, woven cultures
AuthorsBoddington, G.
Abstract

[Publisher's description of the book containing this chapter]: This book investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance; the discussion within it forms a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices, informed by new technologies. This collection considers how identity is formed, de-formed, constructed, deconstructed, blurred and celebrated within diverse approaches to technological performance practices.
Digital practices as experimental artworks and performances both serve as critique and have an indirect affect on the social and political. The discussions included in this collection highlight how a redefinition of the latter term comes about in as much as they question the very nature of our accepted ideas and belief systems regarding new technologies. These essays demonstrate how embodied technological practice, as with all avant-garde art, presents itself and any analysis applied to it as an experimental extension of the socio-political and cultural experience of an epoch.

Research GroupTheatre Arts group
Page range77-90
Book titleIdentity, performance and technology: practices of empowerment, embodiment and technicity
EditorsBroadhurst, S. and Machon, J.
PublisherPelgrave Macmillan
SeriesPalgrave Studies in Performance and Technology
ISBN
Hardcover9780230298880
Publication dates
Print24 Oct 2012
Publication process dates
Deposited24 Jul 2013
Output statusPublished
LanguageEnglish
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