Description
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.
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1 Editorial: Diagramming performances
ANDREJ MIRČEV
SPECULATIVE DIAGRAMMATICS
10 How Diagrammatic are Diagrammatic Instruments? Towards
an AB–DE–IN model of artistic research
ADELHEID MERS
22 Theatre Performance through the Intermedial Lens:
Overlapping Elleström’s medium-centered model of
communication and Bentley’s minimal definition of theatre
ELENI TIMPLALEXI
35 History Put in Touch with Itself: Diagram and re-enactment
BECKETT WARZER
THE CARTOGRAPHIC DIAGRAM
42 Private Eyes that Draw Superimposed Lines: Weak signals,
atmospherics and choreographic diagramming in Room 22,
AWB 2021: Hotel Belgrade
TAMARA TOMIĆ-VAJAGIĆ
54 The Residency as Diagram: Holding virtual and global
space–time through the diagrammatic
DEE HEDDON, TRACY MACKENNA AND MISHA MYERS
58 Web Walking, the Landscape Pattern and Place-story
Diagrams in Performance
HELEN BILLINGHURST AND PHIL SMITH
63 Drawing Oblivion: Slits, holes, cracks and portals
MADELEINE COLLIE WITH RUBIANE MAIA
69 Let This Sentence Be Your Guide: Diagrammatic alterity and
performative de(X)-touring of urban cityscapes
THOMAS LAVAZZI
DIAGRAMS/ARCHIVES/TIMELINES
77 A Puzzle of Diagrams (Incorrect Collective Noun/
Incomplete Collection)
RICHARD GOUGH
81 Diagramming a Timeline of Dance
ANA BIGOTTE VIEIRA, JOÃO DOS SANTOS MARTINS AND CARLOS MANUEL OLIVEIRA
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
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
108 Rudolf Laban’s Diagrammatics: Moving structures for
movement-thinking
PAOLA CRESPI
117 Feeling(s) without Organs: Performing emotions in
blueprints and schemes
ANIA MALINOWSKA
125 Epitaphic Readings: Diagrams as (re)incarnations
VICTORIA SHARPLES
133 Thinking About Dance Dramaturgy through Diagrams
LIZA KARDAMI
GRAPHIC TRACES AND PERFORMANCE
140 Towards a Rattling of the Everyday: Performance scores and
graphic notation
LISA FAY
145 The Time of Diagrams: A theory of notation
NATILEE HARREN
153 Notation as Diagram: Transnotators
CHIEH-TING HSIEH
158 The Art of Notation Revisited
JOHN RAJCHMAN
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REVIEWS
166 White Privilege and the Return of the Real
RYAN PLATT
168 ‘Theatre’s Computational Turn’
SARAH BAY-CHENG
170 The Arts of the Grid: Interdisciplinary insights on gridded
modalities in conversation with the arts
JOANNE TOMPKINS
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172 Notes on Contributors
