Contributing artists and referenced work. Michael Morris (Joint Artistic Director of Artangel) : H.G., The missing voice (Case study B) ; Felix Barrett (Founder and Artistic Director of Punchdrunk) : Masque of the red death, The crash of the Elysium ; Bruce Gladwin (Artistic Director of Back to Back Theatre) : Soft, Small metal objects ; Christer Lundahl and Martina Seitl (Founders and Artistic Directors of Lundahl & Seitl) : Symphony of a missing room, Rotating in a room of moving images ; Silvia Mercuriali : Etiquette, And the birds fell from the sky ; Tassos Stevens (Co-founder and Co-director of Coney) : The gold-bug, A small town anywhere ; Samantha Holdsworth (Co-founder and Co-artistic Director of Nimble Fish) : The container, Re:bourne ; Punchdrunk Enrichment led by Pete Higgin (Enrichment Director) : Under the eiderdown, The uncommercial traveller ; Louise Ann Wilson : House, Fissure ; Bill Mitchell (Artistic Director) and Sue Hill (Associate Director of WildWorks) : Souterrain, The passion ; Adrian Howells : Foot Washing for the Sole, The Pleasure of Being : Washing, Feeding, Holding ; Tristan Sharps (Founder and Artistic Director of dreamthinkspeak) : Before I Sleep, The Rest Is Silence.
Introduction. Immersive Theatre ; An immersive inheritance : Modernism, Antonin Artaud and 'total theatres', Happenings and Environmental Theatre, Installation and intimacy, Immersive technologies, sensual technologies, Intimacy, involvement and communitas ; Immersive theatres : immediacy and intimacy today ; Immersion and interaction ; Presence as praesence ; The structure of Part One and Part Two
pt. One. Defining Immersive Theatres. 1. Definitions and Details : Definitions ; Defining immersiveness, immersion, immersivity : Immersion, involvement and presence : Gaming Theory, Immersion, involvement and praesence : defining immersive theatre ; Gauging an immersive event.
2. Features and Finer Details: A Scale of Immersivity
Central features of immersive practice ...
... Audience involvement, audience evolvement
... Sensual worlds: immediacy, intimacy and sensuality
... Space, place and praesence: site-inspired practice
... Immersive worlds: immersive environments and the environment
3. Immersive Perspectives
Immersive perspectives: feeling, form and function
Immersive practice and experiential form: (syn)aesthetics
Immersive perspectives: making-sense/sense-making
Gilles Deleuze: ̀immanence' and the ludic logic of sense
Kathryn Linn Geurts: embodied feeling, embodied knowing: ̀Seselelame'
Immersive perspectives: the pleasures of the audience
Umberto Eco and open works
Jacques Ranciere's ̀emancipated spectator'
Nicolas Bourriaud and relational aesthetics.
Contents note continued: Immersive perspectives: the significance of space
Juhani Pallasmaa: the sensuality of space
Doreen Massey: the politics of space and place
Gaston Bachelard: the poetics of space
Immersive theatres: audience, space, duration, sensation
pt. Two Immersion, Intimacy and Immediacy in Practice
Conversations one. Michael Morris of Artangel : Immersive theatres : intimacy, immediacy, transformation ; Felix Barrett of Punchdrunk : Immersive theatres : intimacy, immediacy, imagination
Conversations two. Bruce Gladwin of Back To Back Theatre : The intimate (im)mediacy of sound ; Lundahl & Seitl : Challenging the (im)mediate interface ; Silvia Mercuriali : Immersive imaginations : the intimate and (im)mediate
Conversations three. Tassos Stevens of Coney : Playing with(in) the 'what is' and 'what if' ; Samantha Holdsworth of Nimble Fish : Immersivity and cultural production : 'permission to play'
Punchdrunk Enrichment : Immersion, enrichment and empowerment
Conversations four. Louise Ann Wilson : Immersed in the environment : 'off the beaten track' ; Bill Mitchell and Sue Hill of WildWorks : Immersive communitas : space, place and people
Conversations five. Adrian Howells : The epic in the intimate ; Tristan Sharps of dreamthinkspeak : The intimate in the epic
Conclusion : Immersive Theatres.
