Immersive Embodiment: Theatres of Mislocalized Sensation
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 3113
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-27970-7
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph, the product of six years’ work, traces a complex interdisciplinary lineage of the ‘promise’ of immersive performance from historical art theory (e.g. Diderot, Fried) to contemporary theatre practice. Transdisciplinary meanings of ‘immersion’ and selfhood are surveyed, and a boundary-crossing examination is offered of intersections between knowledge from body-swap literature, neuroscience, embodiment studies, experimental studies in body-ownership and, installations, applied practices and multi-player VR gaming. Among the comprehensive range of case studies analysed, the author examines their own extensive practice-as-research, in-particular, the Wellcome Trust funded project Transports; a collaboration with Parkinson’s UK volunteers, technologists and neuroscientists.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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