PERFORMANCE RESEARCH VOL.27 ISSUE 8
ON DIAGRAMS AND THE DIAGRAMATIC

Editor: Andrej Mirčev
Published by Routledge
172 pages
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2023) 27:8
Softcover

Price: 95 lei


Focusing on diagrams in the performing arts, this issue brings together theoretical and practice-based perspectives on the diagrammatic, understood both as a knowledge-generating device and a performative instrument with distinctive aesthetic and intersocial qualities. It surveys how acts of diagramming can generate fluid constellations between concepts, words and images, and thus set in motion their transformation and translation into visceral and spatial realities. Blending speculative reflection with artistic research, the collected articles unfold hybrid, non-dualist territories in which performances are examined as palimpsests of graphic textures. The issue On Diagrams & the Diagrammatic seeks to expand the discussion on sociopolitical entanglements of contemporary performing practices by questioning if and how theatre and dance can be comprehended diagrammatically. Organized around several thematic trajectories, the contributions converge on questions of cartography, affectivity, notations, archives and the political.

CONTENTS:

p.1 Editorial: Diagramming performances
ANDREJ MIRČEV

SPECULATIVE DIAGRAMMATICS

p.10 How Diagrammatic are Diagrammatic Instruments? Towards an AB–DE–IN model of artistic research
ADELHEID MERS

p.22 Theatre Performance through the Intermedial Lens: Overlapping Elleström’s medium-centered model of communication and Bentley’s minimal definition of theatre
ELENI TIMPLALEXI

p.35 History Put in Touch with Itself: Diagram and re-enactment
BECKETT WARZER

THE CARTOGRAPHIC DIAGRAM

p.42 Private Eyes that Draw Superimposed Lines: Weak signals, atmospherics and choreographic diagramming in Room 22, AWB 2021: Hotel Belgrade
TAMARA TOMIĆ-VAJAGIĆ

p.54 The Residency as Diagram: Holding virtual and global space–time through the diagrammatic
DEE HEDDON, TRACY MACKENNA AND MISHA MYERS

p.58 Web Walking, the Landscape Pattern and Place-story Diagrams in Performance
HELEN BILLINGHURST AND PHIL SMITH

p.63 Drawing Oblivion: Slits, holes, cracks and portals

MADELEINE COLLIE WITH RUBIANE MAIA

p.69 Let This Sentence Be Your Guide: Diagrammatic alterity and performative de(X)-touring of urban cityscapes
THOMAS LAVAZZI

DIAGRAMS/ARCHIVES/TIMELINES

p.77 A Puzzle of Diagrams (Incorrect Collective Noun/Incomplete Collection)
RICHARD GOUGH

p.81 Diagramming a Timeline of Dance
ANA BIGOTTE VIEIRA, JOÃO DOS SANTOS MARTINS AND CARLOS MANUEL OLIVEIRA

p.89 Mapping and Cross-mapping the Hi:story of Performance Art in Switzerland through Collective Research for Deviant Understandings
SABINE GEBHARDT FINK AND DOROTHEA RUST

p.98 Unintentional Poetics of Deleuze’s Diagram between Mapping and Tracing: Performances in art and space by Rauschenberg, Beuys and Paolini
JAKUB ZDEBIK

BODIES, MOVEMENTS AND AFFECTS

p.108 Rudolf Laban’s Diagrammatics: Moving structures for movement-thinking
PAOLA CRESPI

p.117 Feeling(s) without Organs: Performing emotions in blueprints and schemes
ANIA MALINOWSKA

p.125 Epitaphic Readings: Diagrams as (re)incarnations
VICTORIA SHARPLES

p.133 Thinking About Dance Dramaturgy through Diagrams
LIZA KARDAMI

GRAPHIC TRACES AND PERFORMANCE

p.140 Towards a Rattling of the Everyday: Performance scores and graphic notation
LISA FAY

p.145 The Time of Diagrams: A theory of notation
NATILEE HARREN

p.153 Notation as Diagram: Transnotators
CHIEH-TING HSIEH

p.158 The Art of Notation Revisited
JOHN RAJCHMAN