Performance Research Volume 21 Issue 2
On Sea/At Sea
Issue editors: Richard Gough & Sam Trubridge
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2016) 21:2
On/At Sea focuses on the sea as an unbounded, unfixed territory with no recognizable performance cartographies, asking the question – how often does performance go to sea? This is both a literal and poetic question, thus inquiring about specific nautical performances ‘on the sea’, as well as the poetic state of being ‘at sea’, that is, within a fluid, unfixed, or liquid condition. Does the need for survival in this place render artistic, performative expression as something superfluous and trivial? How can a performance culture be shaped by this liquid, ever-moving terrain? Is perhaps, the sea a place where performance is suspended momentarily? We are seldom actually ON the sea and being AT sea is a giving over to the elements, casting off from attachments and moorings.
On Sea/At Sea – An Introduction
Sam Trubridge
pp. 1 - 6
Performance Waves
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson
pp. 7 - 11
Writing Coastlines : Either and both
J. R. Carpenter
pp. 12 - 16
‘A Chain of Creation, Continuation, Continuity’ : Feminist dramaturgy and the matter of the sea
Cara Berger
pp. 17 - 24
12‑A-Day : Lighthousekeeping on the Irish Sea
Róisín O'Gorman
pp. 25 - 31
Crossing the Line : A rite of passage on HMS Terrible
Sarah Penny
pp. 32 - 37
Sounds Nothing Like the Sea
Soundcamp, Maria Papadomanolaki, Dawn Scarfe, Grant Smith, Grant Smith, Max Baraitser Smith
pp. 38 - 39
‘The Vessel Will Embrace Us’ : Contemporary Pacific voyaging in Oceanic theatre
Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker, Sharon Mazer, Diana Looser
pp. 40 - 49
Competing with the Sea : Contemporary cruise ships as omnitopias
Melanie Bennett
pp. 50 - 57
12 Hours before the Mast
Ian Maxwell
pp. 58 - 62
Liquidities : Transactive border spaces and threshold structures (between the harbour and the sea)
Tina Kinsella, Silvia Loeffler
pp. 63 - 69
Impossible is Real : Tadeusz Kantor at the seashore
Dorota Sosnowska
pp. 70 - 78
‘still every year they went’ : Studio performance at sea
Reeder & Lamb
pp. 79 - 80
You Do (Not) Assist the Storm : A vibrant and affective seascape for The Tempest at Minack, Cornwall
Evelyn O'Malley
pp. 81 - 84
Writing the Indian Ocean : Immersion in seven waves
Stephen Muecke
pp. 85 - 89
Sea-change : Performing a fluid continent (artists’ pages)
Margaret Werry, Dorita Hannah, Ani O'Neill, Amanda Yates, Amanda Yates
pp. 90 - 95
Concurrent Practices
Sam Trubridge, Mick Douglas
pp. 96 - 107
Fluid Philosophy : Rethinking the human condition in terms of the sea
Keren Chiaroni
pp. 108 - 116
[E]ven my body now lets the light through.
Misha Penton
pp. 117 - 117
Oceanic Geographies : The fluid dramaturgy of Caridad Svich
Kevin Brown
pp. 118 - 124
The Disappearing Act : Geometries of free-diving
Sara Malou Strandvad, Tracy C. Davis
pp. 125 - 137
Swimming in Sewage : Political performances in the Mediterranean
Tania El Khoury
pp. 138 - 140
Mare Nostrum, or On Water Matters
Emma Cox, Marilena Zaroulia
pp. 141 - 149
SOUND((ING))S : An on-board poetry installation in support of refugees
Amy Evans
pp. 150 - 152
Fearful Stories from the Breathless Ocean : Alanna Mitchel's Sea Sick (review)
Katrina Dunn
pp. 153 - 155
In the Wake of It Comes in Waves (review)
Sasha Kovacs
pp. 155 - 159
Notes on Contributors
pp. 160 - 162
