Generating a medical dramaturgy : live intersections between intermediality and health

McLaughlin, D; Scott, JE

Abstract

This snapshot introduces an intermedial Practice as Research (PaR) project, exploring the intersections between live media practice, disability and health. As part of this collaborative work, we are seeking to discover new ways of formulating and expressing Deirdre’s autobiographical and phenomenological experience of temporal lobe epilepsy through improvised events, created using the tools of Jo’s live media practice. In such events, Deirdre’s lived experience of the condition and its treatment emerges through combinations of text, movement, sound and image, generating a ‘medical dramaturgy’, which reflects, refracts and responds to the real time experience of living with disability.

Citation

McLaughlin, D., & Scott, J. (2017). Generating a medical dramaturgy : live intersections between intermediality and health. In V. Baxter, & K. Low (Eds.), Applied Theatre : Performing Health and Wellbeing. Bloomsbury

• Acceptance Date: Aug 1, 2015
• Publication Date: Jan 26, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jun 28, 2016
• Book Title: Applied Theatre : Performing Health and Wellbeing
• ISBN: 9781472584595
• Publisher URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/applied-theatre-performing-health-and-wellbeing-9781472584595/