Under the Covers: an interactive audience (paper)

dc.cclicenceCC-BY-NCen
dc.contributor.authorGarton, Rosieen
dc.contributor.authorRippel, IIdikoen
dc.date.acceptance2016-10-01en
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-21T15:22:16Z
dc.date.available2018-03-21T15:22:16Z
dc.date.issued2015-07
dc.description.abstract"We are really excited to perform for you tonight – we just had one little problem: we couldn’t find any babysitters. You see, we are both mothers. Young mothers. But don’t panic, we found a solution! Anybody ever heard of SKYPE? Great. So this is what we’ve done, the clever bit: we’ve attached infra-red cameras above our babies’ beds, and we are filming them, now, live, so you can babysit, while we perform". This paper examines the babysitting role of the audience in Zoo Indigo's performance of 'Under the Covers'. This collaborative (Garton and Rippel) performance as research project, engages with the staging of the maternal body, we are present as mothers, observing our real-life babies on screen. In placing/displacing our maternal body in performance, we attempt to stage the ‘inexpressible Real’. The performance deliberately establishes binaries, such as between autobiography and play-acting, real and fake, and through this a sense of the authentic is perceived in juxtaposition to the evidently staged. The audience are given responsibility for the care of the virtual infantsen
dc.funderN/Aen
dc.identifier.citationGarton, R. and Rippel, I. (2015) Under the Covers: an interactive audience (paper). The International Society for Intermedial Studies Conference Play, Perform, Participate. Utrecht, July 2015.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/15570
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Drama, Dance and Performance Studiesen
dc.subjectParticipation in theatreen
dc.titleUnder the Covers: an interactive audience (paper)en
dc.typeConferenceen

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