Matter mattering: ‘Intra-activity’ in live media performance

Scott, JE

Abstract

This paper engages with Karen Barad’s (2007) notion of ‘intra-activity’ to argue for a discrete understanding of live media performance work. Its distinctive nature emerges through what Barad calls ‘intra-actions’, or ‘the mutual constitution of entangled agencies’ (2007: 33). In live media practice, the nature of such intra-actions is exposed, with the onstage ‘apparatus’ an intrinsic part of the ‘ongoing reconfigurings’ of the live media event (Barad, 2003: 818). In the ‘lively’ space generated through such events, matter is always in the process of ‘mattering’ (2003: 817).

Citation

Scott, J. (2015). Matter mattering: ‘Intra-activity’ in live media performance. Body, Space & Technology, 14,

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Mar 6, 2015
• Journal: Body, Space & Technology Journal
• Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Publisher URL: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/home.html
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