Mattering Spiritualities Performative Experiments for a Radical Imagining of the World Becoming
Edited By Silvia Battista, David Mason
Mattering Spiritualities brings together an array of international scholars and artists to explore spirituality in embodiment through the lens of performance, performative writing, and performance studies.
The book concerns spirituality and takes the body as the site of whatever it is we call spirituality. The methodological assumption is that the opposition of body and spirit is a false binary that calls for re-examination and revision. It stems from the argument that people can deliberately shift their boundaries of perception and knowing through practice, technologies and performative techniques that can alter the way in which they perceive the ecologies in which they are embedded. This approach understands that careful attention to which bodies are performing in any given scenario is crucial, as is a sensitivity to the ramifications of any body’s race, gender, class, and biological ability.
Edited By Silvia Battista, David Mason
Mattering Spiritualities brings together an array of international scholars and artists to explore spirituality in embodiment through the lens of performance, performative writing, and performance studies.
The book concerns spirituality and takes the body as the site of whatever it is we call spirituality. The methodological assumption is that the opposition of body and spirit is a false binary that calls for re-examination and revision. It stems from the argument that people can deliberately shift their boundaries of perception and knowing through practice, technologies and performative techniques that can alter the way in which they perceive the ecologies in which they are embedded. This approach understands that careful attention to which bodies are performing in any given scenario is crucial, as is a sensitivity to the ramifications of any body’s race, gender, class, and biological ability.
The Performances of Sacred Places: Crossing, Breathing, Resisting
Edited by Silvia Battista - 2021
Looks at the value, function and role that performance plays in the constitution and activation of special, sacred places. Brings together artistic, theatrical, religious and activist practices with the objective of studying the role that they have in transforming, maintaining, contesting and activating the sacredness of locations.
Edited by Silvia Battista - 2021
Looks at the value, function and role that performance plays in the constitution and activation of special, sacred places. Brings together artistic, theatrical, religious and activist practices with the objective of studying the role that they have in transforming, maintaining, contesting and activating the sacredness of locations.
Posthuman Spiritualities in Contemporary Performance: Politics, Ecologies and Perceptions
Silvia Battista - 2018
This book provides an interpretative analysis of the notion of spirituality through the lens of contemporary performance and posthuman theories. The book examines five performance/artworks. Through the analysis of these works the notion of spirituality is grounded in materiality and embodiment allowing the conceptual juxtaposition of spirit and matter to introduce the paradoxical as the guiding thread of the narrative of the book. Here, the human is interrogated and negotiated with/within a plurality of other living organisms, intangible existences and micro and macrocosmic ecologies. Silence, meditation, shamanic journeys, reciprocal gazing, restraint, and contemplation are analyzed as technologies used to manipulate perception and adventure into the multilayered condition of matter..
Silvia Battista - 2018
This book provides an interpretative analysis of the notion of spirituality through the lens of contemporary performance and posthuman theories. The book examines five performance/artworks. Through the analysis of these works the notion of spirituality is grounded in materiality and embodiment allowing the conceptual juxtaposition of spirit and matter to introduce the paradoxical as the guiding thread of the narrative of the book. Here, the human is interrogated and negotiated with/within a plurality of other living organisms, intangible existences and micro and macrocosmic ecologies. Silence, meditation, shamanic journeys, reciprocal gazing, restraint, and contemplation are analyzed as technologies used to manipulate perception and adventure into the multilayered condition of matter..