Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Body and Arousal: On Social, Cultural, Scientific, and Artistic Experiment: Introduction - Julia Listengarten and Yana Meerzon
Section One Pleasured Body
1 Kokoschka's Fetish: Violence, Puppetness, and the Female Simulacrum as Mediated Body/Object in the Central European Avant-Garde - Tim Butler Garrett
2 Dalí's Dream of Venus: Sex, Surrealism, and Disability at the 1939 New York World's Fair - Keri Watson
3 Blood and Desire: Collaborating through Arousal - Alissa Clarke
4 Getting Lippy with the Patriarchy: Contemporary Women Artists' “Lip Art” - Lara Cox
5 Transformation and Arousal: The Pleasure of Performative Indeterminacy in Persona Theatre Company's Phaedra I - Avra Sidiropoulou
Section Two Political Body
6 Höch's Weimar and Wilhelm: Rundschau's Avant-Garde Reframing - J. Brandon Pelcher
7 The Dissonance of Resonating Bodies and the Collisions of Reality Friction: Structures of Ambiguity in Christoph Schlingensief's Bitte Liebt Österreich - Tony Perucci
8 The Sacrificed Young Woman: Necropolitics and Patriarchy in Koffi Kwahulé's Bintou - Selim Rauer
9 Pussy Riot's Radical Acts: Transgressive Bodies in Performance and the Ghosting of the Russian Avant-Garde - Julia Listengarten
10 Body as Site for Feminist Theatrical Discourse: A Pedagogic and Performative Experiment with Arousing Images by Anuradha Kapur - Indu Jain
11 Both Sides, Now: Between Narratives of Decline and Gestures of Care - Alvin Eng Hui Lim
Section Three Abject Body
12 The Knee, the Elbow, the Face: On Body as Abject in Vladimir Nabokov's Visual Imagination - Yana Meerzon
13 Trauma, Ethics, and the Puppet Body in Handspring Puppet Company - Dawn Tracey Brandes
14 “Upside Down”: The Rough Play of Narcissister's Avant-Porn - Rebecca Clark
15 Queer Epistemologies in the Making of Queer Makishi: Visibility, Trans-position, and Devised Performance Practice - Johann Robert Wood
16 Island Icarus: Signaling through the Flames as Critical Performance Design - Dorita Hannah
List of Contributors
Index
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