JE Scott
Matter mattering: ‘Intra-activity’ in live media performance
Scott, JE
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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).
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | Jan 1, 2015 |
| Deposit Date | Mar 6, 2015 |
| Journal | Body, Space & Technology Journal |
| Electronic ISSN | 1470-9120 |
| Publisher | Open Library of Humanities |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 14 |
| Publisher URL | http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/home.html |
| Related Public URLs | http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol14/joscott/home.html |