Immersive theatres : intimacy and immediacy in contemporary performance / Josephine Machon.

Contents note continued: Bill Mitchell, Artistic Director, and Sue Hill, Associate Director of WildWorks
Souterrain
The Passion
Adrian Howells
Foot Washing for the Sole
The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding, Holding
Tristan Sharps, Founder and Artistic Director of dreamthinkspeak
Before I Sleep
The Rest Is Silence
Introduction
Immersive Theatre
An immersive inheritance
Modernism, Antonin Artaud and `total theatres'
Happenings and Environmental Theatre
Installation and intimacy
Immersive technologies, sensual technologies
Intimacy, involvement and communitas
Immersive theatres: immediacy and intimacy today
Immersion and interaction
Presence as praesence
The structure of Part One and Part Two
pt. One Defining Immersive Theatres
1.Definitions and Details
Definitions
Defining immersiveness, immersion, immersivity
Immersion, involvement and presence: Gaming Theory


Contents note continued: Immersion, involvement and praesence: defining immersive theatre
Gauging an immersive event
2.Features and Finer Details: A Scale of Immersivity
Central features of immersive practice...
... Audience involvement, audience evolvement
... Sensual worlds: immediacy, intimacy and sensuality
...Space, place and praesence: site-inspired practice
...Immersive worlds: immersive environments and the environment
The scale of immersivity
3.Immersive Perspectives
Immersive perspectives: feeling, form and function
Immersive practice and experiential form: (syn)aesthetics
Immersive perspectives: making-sense/sense-making
Gilles Deleuze: `immanence' and the ludic logic of sense
Kathryn Linn Geurts: embodied feeling, embodied knowing: `Seselelame'
Immersive perspectives: the pleasures of the audience
Umberto Eco and open works
Jacques Ranciere's `emancipated spectator'
Nicolas Bourriaud and relational aesthetics


Contents note continued: Immersive perspectives: the significance of space
Juhani Pallasmaa: the sensuality of space
Doreen Massey: the politics of space and place
Gaston Bachelard: the poetics of space
Immersive theatres: audience, space, duration, sensation
pt. Two Immersion, Intimacy and Immediacy in Practice
Introduction
Conversations one
Michael Morris of Artangel
Immersive theatres
intimacy, immediacy, transformation
Felix Barrett of Punchdrunk
Immersive theatres
intimacy, immediacy, imagination
Conversations two
Bruce Gladwin of Back To Back Theatre
The intimate (im)mediacy of sound
Lundahl & Seitl
Challenging the (im)mediate interface
Silvia Mercuriali
Immersive imaginations
the intimate and (im)mediate
Conversations three
Tassos Stevens of Coney
Playing with(in) the `what is' and `what if'
Samantha Holdsworth of Nimble Fish
Immersivity and cultural production
`permission to play'


Contents note continued: Punchdrunk Enrichment
Immersion, enrichment and empowerment
Conversations four
Louise Ann Wilson
Immersed in the environment
`off the beaten track'
Bill Mitchell and Sue Hill of WildWorks
Immersive communitas
space, place and people
Conversations five
Adrian Howells
The epic in the intimate
Tristan Sharps of dreamthinkspeak
The intimate in the epic.