PERFORMANCE RESEARCH
VOL.27 ISSUE 2
ON TOUCH
Editor: Martin Welton
Published by Routledge
96 pages
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2023) 27:2
Softcover
Price: 95 lei
This special issue deals with touch as it appears, is deployed, applied and experienced in the production and reception of performance. However, rather than continue to perpetuate a dyadic account – of touching and being touched – in which it remains a fundamentally passive receipt of sensory information about other things, the issue's authors give attention to the active, the multiple and the mysterious in the act of touching. To reduce touch to sensation alone would be to obscure the tension and release inherent to the acts of hefting, grasping, stroking, pressing and testing that are shaped and afforded in acts and events of performance. Even more than this, as the issue's authors attest, to attend to these acts is to describe an aesthetics – a knowing in sensing – in the admixture of bodies, environments and events.
p.1 Editorial: On Touch
ASHER WARREN AND MARTIN WELTON
p.7 Touch (Sk)Interrupted? Dante or Die's Skin Hunger: A socially distanced performance installation
FREYA VERLANDER
p.16 Trust Fall: Rubbing rocks and the irreconcilability of objects
TED HIEBERT
p.25 Touching Moment [Artist pages]
ROSEMARY LEE
p.27 The Sound of a Door: Reflections on tactility of sound design for Feeling Thing, a dance film by Candoco dance company and Jo Bannon
JULIE ROSE BOWER
p.36 Wearing a Second Skin of Sound: Touching the other through sounding and listening [Artist pages]
JAN SCHACHER
p.38 Cassils with Jean-Luc Nancy: ‘[T]he touch is not less deep than the wound’ (Nancy 1991: 98)
WENDY HUBBARD
p.46 soft matter: Re-pair [Artist pages]
SIMON WHITEHEAD
p.48 Touching through Music, Touching through Words: The performance and performativity of pianistic touch in musical and literary settings
ALEXANDRA HUANG-KOKINA
p.56 Eye Contact and the Performative Touch of Blindness
DEVON HEALEY
p.64 Sonic Touch: Charting connections in contemporary sound-led performance practice
MILES O’NEIL WITH HOLLY AUSTIN, CAYN BORTHWICK, ALISDAIR MACINDOE, TAMARA SAULWICK AND GLEN WALTON
p.72 Enduring Touch
MISCHA TWITCHIN
p.81 To Kill or Die For: The imperceptible tactility of public feelings in Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists by Tiago Rodrigues
ANA PAIS
REVIEWS
91 Dancing and Reading across Difference, with Love
REBECCA CHALEFF
92 Embodied Rhetoric
HEATH PENNINGTON
94 Notes on Contributors