School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Sam Crane
PhD by Creative Practice
Thesis
Thesis Title & Description
Grand Theft Artaud - An autoethnographic study of live performance in "real" and "virtual" worlds
Supervisor: Dr Ben Kirman and Dr Karen Quigley
The relationship between spectator and performer in live performance has often been critically assessed in the academic world from the point of view of the spectator (Ranciere, Bucknall, Aebischer). This creative practice research project will take notions such as Ranciere’s “emancipated spectator” and Bucknall’s “reflective participant”, which arose from the need to develop a sophisticated and nuanced critical approach to the act of experiencing theatre, and flip them to explore experiential approaches to understanding the nature of the actor’s role in live performance, both in traditional “real world” theatre spaces, and in digital game spaces.
