Book | Chapter
Instants of affection
pp. 36-61
Abstract
The previous chapter began with the experience of two inaugural moments of performance, a disaster and a fiasco. Both touched on a particular spectatorial sensibility, that of the "existential-phenomenological thrill". However, in a consideration of the drama of disaster and the separating power of spectacle, the experience of audience has been neglected in favour of the audience of experience, marked by the alienating power of representation momentarily overcome in what I have called points of suspension.
Publication details
Published in:
Bayly Simon (2011) A pathognomy of performance. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 36-61
Full citation:
Bayly Simon (2011) Instants of affection, In: A pathognomy of performance, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 36–61.