Performance Research – The CPR https://thecpr.org.uk Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:05:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 21.4 On Game Structures https://thecpr.org.uk/product/21-4-on-game-structures/ Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:26:55 +0000 http://thecpr.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3329 On Game Structures is an interdisciplinary platform for querying the logic of artistic, epistemological and economic moves and strategies. In art, science and philosophy, as in social praxis, every position is always an intersection of past moves.  And every new move, in turn, alters the existing structure by altering the relationship between the structure’s constituent elements: time, space, rules, goals, and modes of interaction. This dynamic interpenetration of play – as emergent activity – and games – as coagulated structure – is, in this issue, explored in scholarly and artistic ways. Examples of the hybrid tropes the contributors engage with are liminoid social rites, playbour (the neoliberal fusion of play and labour), mathematical-musical recursion, Taqiyyah (the Islamic jurisprudence which embroils truth and falsity), porn-sports, and phantasmal ludicity.

ISSUE CONTENTS:

Introduction by Natasha Lushetich & Mathias Fuchs

PART 1 : GOALS, RULES, OBSTACLES & CONSTRAINTS

A Game without Rules by Ken Friedman

Recursive Game Structures as Emergent Post‑capitalist Creative Strategies by Piotr Woycicki

The Ludic Logic of Tragedy by Freddie Rokem

Agonistic Objectification : Choreography as a play between abundance and lack by Goran Petrović Lotina

Playing with Constraint : Performing the OuLiPo and the clinamen-performer by Oliver Bray

How Philidor Helped Rousseau Judge Jean‑Jacques : The narrative grammar of chess in Rousseau’s Dialogues by Florian Vauléon

Liminoid Invitations and Liminoid Acts : The role of ludic strategies and tropes in immersive and microperformance dramaturgies by Joanna Bucknall

PART 2 : SPACE AND TIME

 Butoh Translations and the Suffering of Nature by Sondra Fraleigh

Worker : The iteration game or coming out of the eternal return by Barbara Roland

That Obscure Object of Desire : John Nash and the general theory of the second best by Abhay Ghiara & Matthew Goulish

Philosophy becoming Para-Textual : Plato’s Phaedrus, a memory pharmacy by Aaron Finbloom

Alternative Trajectories : Structuring play through videogame physics engines by CONOR Mckeown

PART 3 : SYSTEMS AND METASYSTEMS

 lude et labora : Notes on gamification at work by Vincenzo Idone Cassone

Phantasms of Computability by Markus Rautzenberg. Trans. Mathias Fuchs

Taqiyyah, Language and Game : On Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Contra Diction: Speech against itself by Mi You

Language and Worldviews by Peter Hewitt

A Collaborative Game by Matthews & Allen

Holy Corners Golf Club (2010–14) : Golf balling as foreplay by Gabriella Daris

World Factory by Zoë Svendsen

 REVIEWS

Considering Performance as Biopolitical Critique by Luna Dolezal

Schooling the Spectator in O by Kristen Cochrane

Notes on Contributors

Front Cover Image: Erwin Wurm Der Taschenfabrikant 2003.C-print 140 cm × 115 cm. Photo courtesy of Studio Erwin Wurm.

]]> 20.6 On An/Notations https://thecpr.org.uk/product/20-6-on-annotation/ Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:46:35 +0000 http://thecpr.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3064 On An/Notations considers the potential of the surface of the page, alongside other surfaces, including the screen, as sites for engaging with and thinking through performance ideas and processes. An annotation at its simplest level is adding information to information using some kind of mark-up language or tools. Annotation of body-based practice documentation (for example, video or motion capture) is research done on research, adding semantic layers and drawing further insights out of recorded (mainly past) events and actions. This issue will seek to engage projects using a wide range of approaches alongside critical reflection to draw out and make explicit research and insights from within the entanglement of sensing, feeling and thinking that is the body-based practitioner’s research field.

The Body in the Margins : Alexandra Kollontai’s command performance by Lindsay Goss

Notation for the Audience : The reading movement as way to implicate spectators by Emilie Gallier

Going to hear a dance : On audio describing by Eleanor Margolies

Notes on Annotation by Florian Jenett

Affective Traces in Virtual Spaces : Annotation and emerging dance scores by Hetty Blades

Worlds of MoCap : Writing dance on a three-dimensional canvas by Laura Karreman

Creating by Annotating : The director’s notebooks of Jan Fabre and Jan Lauwers by Timmy De Laet, Edith Cassiers, Luk van den Dries

Notion of Notation >< Notation of Notion (artists’ pages) by Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil

How Viral Poems are Annotated : On ‘OCD’ by Neil Hilborn by Kila van der Starre

Scoring the Generating Principles of Performance Systems by Pil Hansen, Christopher House

Report on a European Project : The laboratory for the twenty-first century (LABO21) by Jonas Rutgeerts, Bertha Bermúdez Pascual, BADCo., Sarah Whatley , Sarah Whatley

Let’s Make a World : A world to be alive in (artists’ pages) by Claire Hind, Gary Winters

Rekall : An environment for notation / annotation / denotation by Clarisse Bardiot

Just in Time : Rosemary Butcher, making memories and marks by Susan Melrose, Stefanie Sachsenmaier, Rosemary Butcher

Jealousy, Transmission and Recovery by Simon Ellis

Translucent Surface / Quiet Body : Choreographic Notes by Katrina Brown

Performances in Footnote Form : While You Are With Us Here Tonight by Mark Smith

The Annotation of Skin by Prarthana Purkayastha

Dances I Only Heard in the Night by Alana Gerecke

Notes on Contributors

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