On Objects explores the various transformations of the object in theatre and performance, from sacred to sacrilegious, fetishised to worthless, functional to aesthetic, craft to commodity, unstable yet enduring. The issue examines the presence of objects in a variety of theatrical and performance media from Futurism and Surrealism to forms of puppet theatre, the Bio-objects of Tadeusz Kantor, the collections of Sigmund Freud, surfaces and identities of virtual objects, and the museum as object and artefact refuge. Things as diverse as popcorn, biomechanics and eyes are considered alongside the designation of objects and their relation to the stage, from Heidegger’s things to the ghostly trace of Derrida, from the body without organs of Deleuze and Guattari to Bachelard’s dreamy geometry of shells. On Objects questions how the study and deployment of objects is differently inflected across established disciplines (art, theatre, history, archaeology, anthropology, sociology) and emerging interdisciplines (performance studies, food studies, tourism studies), evoking shadowy performance spaces crammed with forgotten memories, props and ephemera, from the cultural margins.<\/p>\n
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Editorial: Opening Remarks on a Private Collection
\nLaurie Beth Clark, Richard Gough, Daniel Watt
\npp. 1 – 3
\nThe Pleasure of Objectification: A spectator’s guide
\nAnna Fenmore
\npp. 4 – 13
\nNotes on Adhesion: The object of art and the work of art after conceptualism
\nMichael Jay McClure
\npp. 14 – 23
\nObject Drawing
\nBill Prosser
\npp. 24 – 29
\nObject Lessons and Performative Relations: Residue, reliability and self-sufficiency
\nJessica Wyman
\npp. 30 – 36
\nPerforming Objecthood: Museums, architecture and the play of artefactuality
\nNaomi Stead
\npp. 37 – 46
\nThe Virtual Cabinet of Dr Freud
\nRobert John Brocklehurst
\npp. 47 – 57
\nBake n’ Quake: Objects, surfaces and identity distortion in Id Software’s Quake III Arena
\nStephen Turk
\npp. 58 – 66
\nThe Role of Objects in Bataille’s Story of the Eye
\nRina Arya
\npp. 67 – 77
\nTadeusz Kantor: Collector and Historian
\nMichal Kobialka
\npp. 78 – 96
\nTracing\/Training Rebellion: Object work in Meyerhold’s biomechanics
\nJonathan Pitches
\npp. 97 – 103
\nSoc\u00ecetas Raffaello Sanzio and the Relational Image
\nRuth Holdsworth
\npp. 104 – 114
\nThe Use of Objects in Sintesi of the Italian Futurists
\nGordon Ramsay
\npp. 115 – 122
\nPuppetry and the Destruction of the Object
\nMatthew Isaac Cohen
\npp. 123 – 131
\nActing with Puppets and Objects: Representation and perception in Robert Lepage’s The Far Side of the Moon
\nJames Reynolds
\npp. 132 – 142
\nDesigned for Disappearance: The U.S. military field telephone TA-312\/PT and the performance principle of torture
\nMichael Peterson
\npp. 143 – 150
\nCatalyst, Praxis, Habitat: Performative objects in Chinese time-based art
\nMeiling Cheng
\npp. 151 – 166
\nPopica\/Popcorn: Resistance and ritual performance
\nMyron M. Beasley
\npp. 167 – 172
\nNotes on Contributors
\npp. 173 – 174<\/p>\n\n\n