Touching, flirting, whispering: performing intimacy in public
Walsh, Fintan (2014) Touching, flirting, whispering: performing intimacy in public. TDR: the Drama Review 58 (4), pp. 56-67. ISSN 1054-2043.
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Abstract
We want performance to seduce us, and in its own way, performance wants to seduce us. But what forms of intimacy do these circuits of desire model or deliver, and what might they reveal about intimacy on a wider level? I address these questions by considering three performances that pivot on relationships of touch, flirtation, and whispering — forms of intimate contact that slip into, and back on, one another: Glasgow based performer Adrian Howells’s 'Foot Washing for the Sole' (2008); Belgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed’s 'Internal' (2007); and German-British artist Tino Sehgal’s 'These Associations' (2012).
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR), Contemporary Theatre, Birkbeck Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Fintan Walsh |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2015 12:06 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:36 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12098 |
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