Performance Research Volume 21 Issue 1
On Sleep
Issue editors: Ric Allsopp
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2016) 21:1
On Sleep sets out to gather research and speculative articles, artist’s pages and images, critical and creative writings on the performance of sleep, and on how sleep as a state of being, as an image, as a metaphor, as a passivity or as an activity, can act as a catalyst for performance, or is performed. Sleep (and sleeplessness) as a trope, as a pictorial or literary image has been a consistent cultural representation since antiquity. Artists (and audiences) often operate generatively in the transitions between waking to sleeping, at the borders where conscious and unconscious states merge with each other. The issue will include recent work on the performance of sleep in relation to theatre, live art, choreography, dramaturgy, philosophy, medicine, spectatorship, and material culture.
On Sleep
Ric Allsopp
pp. 1 - 5
Heavy – Sleep, Dance, Loss : The surrender of the translator
Rachel Fensham
pp. 6 - 11
Is the Artist Present? : Live (and conscious) art at a Borderline
Dror Harari
pp. 12 - 17
On the Sleep of the Computer, or the Performance of Randomness : A close reading of Ralf Baecker’s Mirage
Mi You
pp. 18 - 24
Project Noordung 1995–2045 : Performance in sleep mode
Agata Juniku
pp. 25 - 30
Lucid Sleeping : A meditation on nightmares, bubbles and incantation
Ted Hiebert
pp. 31 - 36
Sleepwalking Through the Neutral : (with Roland Barthes and Maurice Blanchot …)
Alice Lagaay
pp. 37 - 41
Sleeplessness in Sleep : Beckett’s gestures of dream
Corey Wakeling
pp. 42 - 48
Bargaining With Hypnos : Sleep deprivation in junior doctors as durational misperformance
Alan Bleakley
pp. 49 - 52
20 Days of Dream Telepathy (artist’s pages)
Sean Peoples, Veronica Kent
pp. 53 - 57
Asleep Beside a Frozen Sea
Kevin Mount
pp. 58 - 64
The Dream Work in Theatre
Aldo Miholnić
pp. 65 - 71
Dream Analysis : Private journeys in public thoroughfare
Sam Trubridge
pp. 72 - 78
Sleeping with Tehran : The story of a body out of place
Saba Zavarei
pp. 79 - 82
‘I’m Sleeping’ : The metaphor of sleep as a dramaturgical directive in performance
Danae Theodoridou
pp. 83 - 87
Dreaming the Stage Within the Screen in The Screen Dreams of Buster Keaton
Rachel Joseph
pp. 88 - 93
The Image of Sleep
Michael Pigott
pp. 94 - 100
The Sleeping Spectator : A sleep cultures critique of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More
Danielle Drees
pp. 101 - 105
Some Repetitive Activity in Shifts and Sheets
Jennie Cole
pp. 106 - 109
Drowsing in Theatre Performances : Lulling the audience’s attention through sonic means
Katharina Rost
pp. 110 - 114
Digital Sleep and the Performance of Lucidity in Paprika
Alice Vernon
pp. 115 - 119
Kris Verdonck’s EXIT : Between negative space and machinic sleep
Kristof Van Baarle
pp. 120 - 125
Sleep, Laziness and Making
Nik Wakefield
pp. 126 - 131
Dream Yards
Claire Hind, Gary Winters
pp. 132 - 137
The Best Residency Programme, Open to All : Sleep
Jessy Layne Tuddenham
pp. 138 - 139
Performing and Resisting a Drag and Drop/Plug and Play World (review)
Heather McLean
pp. 140 - 142
Dwelling between Memories and Dreams (review)
Barbora Příhodová
pp. 143 - 144
Notes on Contributors
pp. 145 - 146
Early Morning 3 (loose insert)
Francesco Gagliardi
pp. 147
