Anatomy live : performance and the operating theatre / edited by Maaike Bleeker.

Selected papers presented at the conference "The Anatomical Theatre Revisited" in 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Prologue - Men with Glass Bodies / Francis Barker -- Introduction / Maaike Bleeker -- Performance Documentation 1: Holoman, Digital Cadaver (Mike Tyler) -- Digital Cadavers and Virtual Dissection / Jose van Dijck -- 'Who Were You?': The Visible and the Visceral / Ian Maxwell -- Performance Documentation 2: Excavations: Fresh but Rotten (Marijs Boulogne) -- The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Moxham / Karen Ingham -- 'Be not faithless but believing': Illusion and Doubt in the Anatomy Theatre / Gianna Bouchard -- Performance Documentation 3: De Anatomische Les (Glen Tetley) -- Of Dissection and Technologies of Culture in Actor Training Programs - an Example from 1960s West Germany / Anja Klock -- Ocular Anatomy, Chiasm, and Theatre Architecture as a Material Phenomenology in Early Modern Europe / Pannill Camp -- Performance Documentation 4: Camillo - Memo 4.0: The Cabinet of Memories - A Tear Donnor Session (Emil Hrvatin) -- Martin, Massumi, and The Matrix / Maaike Bleeker -- Performance Documentation 5: sensing presence no 1: performing a hyperlink system (Copraij, Jenniches, Kunzmann) -- 'Where Are You Now?': Locating the Body in Contemporary Performance / Susan Leigh Foster -- Performance Documentation 6: Under My Skin (Ivana Muller) -- Anatomies of Live Art / Sally Jane Norman -- Performance Documentation 7: Crash (Eric Joris /CREW) -- Restaging the Monstrous / Bojana Kunst -- Delirium of the Flesh: 'All theDead Voices' in the Space of the Now / Michal Kobialka -- Performance Documentation 8: Korper (Sasha Waltz) -- Operating Theatres: Body-bits and a Post-apartheid Aesthetics / Rachel Fensham.

"Gross anatomy, the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by unassisted vision, has long been a subject of fascination for artists. For most modern viewers, however, the anatomy lesson - the technically precise province of clinical surgeons and medical faculties - hardly seems the proper breeding ground for the hybrid workings of art and theory. We forget that, in its early stages, anatomy pursued the highly theatrical spirit of Renaissance science, as painters such as Rembrandt and Da Vinci and medical instructors like Fabricius of Aquapendente shared audiences devoted to the workings of the human body. Anatomy Alive: Performance and the Operating Theatre, a remarkable consideration of new developments on the stage, as well as in contemporary writings of theorists such as Donna Haraway and Brian Massumi, turns our modern notions of the dissecting table on its head - using anatomical theatre as a means of obtaining a fresh perspective on representations of the body, conceptions of subjectivity, and own knowledge about science and the stage. Critically dissecting well-known exhibitions like Body Worlds and The Visible Human Project and featuring contributions from a number of diverse scholars on such subjects as the construction of spectatorship and the implications of anatomical history, Anatomy Alive is not to be missed by anyone with an interest in this engaging intersection of science and artistic practice."--Publisher.

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