TY - JOUR
T1 - The Theatrical text as a misrecognised technological practice
T2 - shape-shifting interventions between words and bodies
AU - Seton, Mark
N1 - Publisher version archived with the permission of the Editor, Scan, Department of Media, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia. This copy is available for individual, non-commercial use. Permission to reprint/republish this version for other uses must be obtained from the publisher.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This paper considers the theatrical written text as a technology that, in practice through performance, shapes embodied experience. It argues that the theatre text is not taken seriously as a technology that indiscriminately affects, mediates and embodies social relationships. From a phenomenological perspective, words actually express meaning in the way that the body expresses intentions by concurrently symbolising and realising them. This phenomenological understanding of the written word, as a technological intervention, has ethical and practical implications for the many human agents – actors, directors, stage crew and audiences - engaged in the performing arts.
AB - This paper considers the theatrical written text as a technology that, in practice through performance, shapes embodied experience. It argues that the theatre text is not taken seriously as a technology that indiscriminately affects, mediates and embodies social relationships. From a phenomenological perspective, words actually express meaning in the way that the body expresses intentions by concurrently symbolising and realising them. This phenomenological understanding of the written word, as a technological intervention, has ethical and practical implications for the many human agents – actors, directors, stage crew and audiences - engaged in the performing arts.
M3 - Article
SN - 1449-1818
VL - 3
JO - Scan: journal of media arts culture
JF - Scan: journal of media arts culture
IS - 3
ER -