![]() ![]() The term performance writing itself, while inevitably evolving into yet another category that refers to an increasingly fixed body of work, is - at least now - still an unstable and exploratory term that attempts to hold in tension both writing and its performance, performance and its writing. As the writer Caroline Bergvall has noted:īoth theoretical interest in "writing" itself as a subject its placing as a distinctive feature within modernist avant-garde practice the increasingly cross-disciplinary and fragmentary condition of the arts and the pervasiveness of the terms of "performance" as a means of reading diverse cultural practices, have provided a rich ground for the emergence of performance writing as a practice and as a way of framing practice. Since the mid-1990s the term "performance writing" has begun to have some currency in the area of experimental and contemporary performing arts, whether referring to an emergent field of practice or an emergent academic discipline. Whatever the ambivalent indications of digital media, writing will certainly continue to develop as a technological medium, and as such, as performance - performance (in whatever form) will continue to be an increasingly complex interaction of signifying systems. In short the conventionalized (and therefore often unquestioned) relations between writing and performance are proving increasingly inadequate as interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary arts practices emerge in response to rapidly shifting cultures. Yet at the latter end of the twentieth century we are surrounded by examples and models of such writerly performance work. Writerly work that extends beyond the page has found itself either marginalized or ignored in terms of its exploration of relations between writing and performance. The study of these forms has until relatively recently been divorced from the study of their performance: even contemporary work on the materiality of writing deriving from deconstructive philosophy and literary theory has largely confined itself to the space of the page. The relationship between writing and performance - the uses and applications of various writing practices for performance within the historical classifications of theatre, music, poetry, literature - has traditionally resolved itself in a variety of conventionalized (but not unproblematic) forms: the play text, the libretto, the lyric, and. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 21.1 (1999) 76-80 It also includes the use of Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) and motion capture system to capture the visual aesthetics of wayang kulit Kelantan into digital media. This paper presents a new definition and classification system of puppetry in digital media, with its emphasis on wayang kulit Kelantan. Wayang kulit Kelantan in digital media is much more advantageously positioned in the marketplace when it completes directly with its live performance. Some researchers suggested that this traditional performing art to be mediatised into digital media to promote and provide greater accessibility to it. ![]() On the other hand, wayang kulit Kelantan, a local form of shadow puppet theatre in Malaysia is threatened with imminent extinction. This new genre of performance art is a subject of debate among puppetry practitioners, digital artists and computer animators. Unlike live puppetry performance, this kind of puppetry is lacking in its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be and its aura of performances. You can also find us all on Instagram–and join Sunscreen Week yourself–with #nutsforballs (because they’re all nuts for my balls ::grin:: I cannot speak to balls in general).Puppetry in digital media offers the greatest challenge to conventional puppetry theory. Our furrrriends will be posting all week long, / / Bella Noir / Fifty Shades of / Little Bit of / VanityRex ![]() SUN’S OUT, BUNS BALLS OUT.Ĭheck in to our blog and Instagram all week for new posts (May 19-25). Only a month left in the campaign and we need every vote to bring my idea for sunscreen balls to life. Keke.Īnd of course, I’ll be urging you all to VOTE for my sunscreen by clicking here. Our favorite sunscreens, lessons learned (sometimes painfully), application tips…basically every topic under the sun. What’s Sunscreen Week? We and several other bloggers and Instabloggers will be posting all week about sun protection. What better time to announce Sunscreen Week? The UVA and UVB rays have ramped up as well. ![]() We’re on the cusp of summer, and here in DC, temperatures have just barely emerged from fall-like temps…and immediately ramped up to the 90s. ![]()
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