Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance

1. Introduction
Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Rachel Zerihan

Part I. Ethical Readings of Political Intimacies

2. The Body in Your Lap
Tracey Warr

3. Not Citizens, But Persons: The Ethics in Action of Performance’s Intimate Work
Simon Jones

4. Collapsing Alibis: Intimacy and the Ethics of Wit(h)nessing
Branislava Kuburović

Part II. Familial Intimacies: Bodily Fluids and Microbiology

5. The Hazardous Conversation: The Practice of Intimacy in Performance at The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home
Gary Anderson, Lena Šimić, Neal Gabriel, Sid

6. Performing with Mother’s Milk: The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar
Jess Dobkin

7. The Normal Flora Project: Intimate Revelations in Art and Science
Anna Dumitriu

Part III. Abuse, Perversion and Obscenity: Knotty Intimacies in Contemporary Performance Practices

8. Ecstatic Intervals: Performance in a Continuum of Intimacy
Dominic Johnson

9. Between Bodies: An Artist’s Account of the Oral Connection Between Human and Dog
Angela Bartram

10. Intimate Pervy Avatars
Sandy Baldwin

Part IV. Visceral Technologies: From MySpace to My Body

11. Intimare
Erin Manning

12. Bodies of Colour/Media Skins
Johannes Birringer

13. BioMuse to Bondage: Corporeal Interaction in Performance and Exhibition
Atau Tanaka

Part V. An Intimate Distance Apart

14. (Dis)Embodiment
Paul Sermon

15. Katie Mitchell: Intimate Technologies in Multimedia Performance
Janis Jefferies, Elena Papadaki

16. Intimacy, Delicacy and Indifference: Ane Lan’s Migrating Birds
Joe Kelleher

17. A Discussion on the Subject of Intimacy in Performance, and an Afterword
Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Rachel Zerihan

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Film and Television Studies, Performing Arts