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List of Illustrations and Tables | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Preface | |
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Contributing artists and referenced work | |
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Michael Morris, Joint Artistic Director of Artangel | |
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H.G. | |
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The Missing Voice (Case Study B) | |
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Felix Barrett, Founder and Artistic Director of Punchdrunk | |
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Masque of the Red Death | |
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The Crash of the Elysium | |
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Bruce Gladwin, Artistic Director of Back to Back Theatre | |
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Soft | |
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Small Metal Objects | |
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Christer Lundahl and Martina Seitl, Founders and Artistic Directors of Lundahl & Seitl | |
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Symphony of a Missing Room | |
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Rotating in a Room of Moving Images | |
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Silvia Mercuriali | |
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Etiquette | |
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And the birds Fell From the Sky… | |
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Tassos Stevens, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Coney | |
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The Gold-bug | |
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A Small Town Anywhere | |
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Samantha Holdsworth, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Nimble Fish | |
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The Container | |
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re:bourne | |
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Punchdrunk Enrichment led by Pete Higgin, Enrichment Director | |
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Under The Eiderdown | |
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The Uncommerical Traveller | |
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Louise Ann Wilson | |
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House | |
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Fissure | |
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Bill Mitchell, Artistic Director, and Sue Hill, Associate Director of WildWorks | |
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Souterrain | |
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The Passion | |
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Adrian Howells | |
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Foot Washing for the Sole | |
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The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding, Holding | |
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Tristan Sharps, Founder and Artistic Director of dreamthinkspeak | |
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Before I Sleep | |
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The Rest Is Silence | |
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Introduction | |
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Immersive Theatre | |
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An immersive inheritance | |
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Modernism, Antonin Artaud and 'total theatres' | |
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Happenings and Environmental Theatre | |
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Installation and intimacy | |
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Immersive technologies, sensual technologies | |
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Intimacy, involvement and communitas | |
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Immersive theatres: Immediacy and intimacy today | |
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Immersion and interaction | |
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Presence as praesence | |
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The structure of Part One and Part Two | |
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Defining Immersive Theatres | |
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Definitions and Details | |
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Definitions | |
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Defining immersivenoss, immersion, immersivity | |
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Immersion, involvement and presence: Gaming Theory | |
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Immersion, involvement and praesence: defining immersive theatre | |
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Gauging an immersive event | |
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Features and Finer Details: A Scale of Immersivity | |
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Central features of immersive practice… | |
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…Audience involvement, audience evolvement | |
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…Sensual worlds: immediacy, Intimacy and sensuality | |
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…Space, place and praesence: site-inspired practice | |
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…Immersive worlds: immersive environments and the environment | |
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The scale of immersivity | |
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Immersive Perspectives | |
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Immersive perspectives: feeling, form and function | |
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Immersive practice and experiential form: (syn)aesthetics | |
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Immersive perspectives: making-sense/sense-making | |
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Gilles Deleuze: 'immanence' and the ludic logic of sense | |
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Kathryn Linn Geurts: embodied feeling, embodied knowing: 'Seselelame' | |
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Immersive perspectives: the pleasures of the audience | |
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Umberto Eco and open works | |
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Jacques Ranci�re's 'emancipated spectator' | |
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Nicolas Bourriaud and relational aesthetics | |
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Immersive perspectives: the significance of space | |
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Juhani Pallasmaa: the sensuality of space | |
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Doreen Massey: the politics of space and place | |
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Gaston Bachelard: the poetics of space | |
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Immersive theatres: audience, space, duration, sensation | |
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Immersion, Intimacy and Immediacy in Practice | |
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Introduction | |
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Conversations one | |
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Michael Morris of Artangel | |
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Immersive theatres - intimacy, immediacy, transformation | |
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Felix Barren of Punchdrunk | |
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Immersive theatres - intimacy, immediacy, imagination | |
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Conversations two | |
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Bruce Gladwin of Back To Back Theatre | |
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The intimate (im)mediacy of sound | |
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Lundahl & Seitl | |
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Challenging the (im)mediate interface | |
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Silvia Mercuriall | |
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Immersive imaginations - the intimate and (im)mediate | |
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Conversations three | |
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Tassos Stevens of Coney | |
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Playing with(in) the 'what is' and 'what if | |
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Samantha Holdsworth of Nimble Fish | |
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Immersivity and cultural production - 'permission to play' | |
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Punchdrunk Enrichment | |
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Immersion, enrichment and empowerment | |
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Conversations four | |
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Louise Ann Wilson | |
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Immersed in the environment - 'off the beaten track' | |
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Bill Mitchell and Sue Hill of WildWorks | |
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Immersive communitas - space, place and people | |
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Conversations five | |
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Adrian Howells | |
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The epic in the intimate | |
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Tristan Sharps of dreamthinkspeak | |
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The intimate in the epic | |
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Conclusion: Immersive Theatres | |
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Notes | |
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Recommended Reading and Research | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |