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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 | |