Author : M. Carlson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0230111483
This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Author : Yerebakan. Osman Can
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Performance art
ISBN :
Author : Tomas Macsotay
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 152611352X
This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume’s two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining ‘hurt’ from the perspectives of both victim and beholder - as well as their combined creation of a gaze - is unique. It establishes a double perspective about the riddle of ‘cruel’ viewing by tracking the shifting cultural meanings of victims’ bodies and confronting them with the values of audiences, religious and popular institutional settings and practices of punishment. It encompasses both the victim’s presence as an image or performed event of pain and the conundrum of the look – the transmitted ‘pain’ experienced by the watching audience.
Author : Elaine Scarry
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 1985-09-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0195036018
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Kissinger, She weaves these into her discussion with an eloquence, humanity, and insight that recall the writings of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre. Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain enormously difficult to describe in words--confronted with it, Virginia Woolf once noted, "language runs dry"--it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme instances to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry analyzes the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of torture and warfare, and shows how to be fictive. From these actions of "unmaking" Scarry turns finally to the actions of "making"--the examples of artistic and cultural creation that work against pain and the debased uses that are made of it. Challenging and inventive, The Body in Pain is landmark work that promises to spark widespread debate.
Author : Patrick Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134431783
Lively yet intriguing, The Body in Performance is a varied collection of essays about this much-discussed area. Posing the question "Why this current preoccupation with the performed body?" the collection of specially commissioned essays from both academics and practitioners - in some cases one and the same person - considers such cutting edge topics as the abject body and performance, censorship and live art, the presentation of violence on stage, carnal art, and the vexed issue of mimesis in the theatre. Drawing variously on the work of Franko B., Orlan, Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, and Forced Entertainment, it concludes with a creative piece about a 'Famous New York Performance Artist.' Contributors include Rebecca Schneider whose book The Explicit Body in Performance is a key text in this area, and Joan Lipkin, director and writer.
Author : Tarja Laine
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2017-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1785335219
The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator’s lived body. Aronofsky’s films, which include a rich range of production from Requiem for a Dream to Black Swan, are often considered “cerebral” because they explore topics like mathematics, madness, hallucinations, obsessions, social anxiety, addiction, psychosis, schizophrenia, and neuroscience. Yet this interest in intelligence and mental processes is deeply embedded in the operations of the body, shared with the spectator by means of a distinctively corporeal audiovisual style. Bodies in Pain looks at how Aronofsky’s films engage the spectator in an affective form of viewing that involves all the senses, ultimately engendering a process of (self) reflection through their emotional dynamics.
Author : Meghan Moe Beitiks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1000516814
How might performance serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain, in humans and ecologies? While reflecting on her multidisciplinary work Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience, artist Meghan Moe Beitiks considers bodies of knowledge in Trauma Theory, Intersectional Feminist Philosophy, Ecology, Disability Studies, New Materialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, Gender Studies, Artistic Research, Psychology, Performance Studies, Social Justice, Performance Philosophy, Performance Art, and a series of first-person interviews in an attempt to answer that question. Beitiks brings us through the first-person process of making the work and the real-life, embodied encounters with the theories explored within it as an expansion of the work itself. Facing down difficult issues like trauma, discrimination, and the vulnerability of the body, Beitiks looks to commonalities across species and disciplines as means of developing resilience and cultivating communities. Rather than paint a picture of glorious potential utopias, Beitiks takes a hard look at herself as an embodiment of the values explored in the work, and stays with the difficult, sucky, troubling, work to be done. Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain is a vulnerable book about the quiet presence and hard looking needed to shift systems away from their oppressive, destructive realities.
Author : Mary Wheeler
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2012-03-22
Category :
ISBN : 9780692614266
You can manage your pain by Taking Inventory, Evaluating and Making Changes in how you use your body. I have helped thousands of people find new ways of doing their daily tasks, which reduced their body's aches and pains. By using my system you to can manage your pain through Awareness Relief and Prevention I call this "befriending your pain." Your pain is an internal warning system in the body that was designed to prevent injury. Why not use it? I developed this system through my own process of eliminating pain for myself and then shared it with my clients and the system worked for them too. I have been a Licensed Massage Therapist for 23 years and what I know is that people want to learn about their bodies. If you have pain or discomfort then ignore it because you do not know how to stop the pain or what you've done to create the pain then "Hello! This is our body speaking" is for you. In my book I guide you through a process that develops movement with awareness in regards to Standing, Walking, Sitting and Lying Down. By listening to what your body is saying when it whispers of discomfort you can address the improper biomechanics by changing what you are doing. Small changes can relieve many aches and pains. Once you work with my system and internalize the information (make it your own) you will be able to experiment with what you are doing and get results of less pain. You start by paying attention to the discomfort that you feel. Then you look at what you are doing. Next you change what you are doing, noticing if the pain lessens or not. Repeating the process always asking yourself. What am I doing? How is this affecting me? What can I do differently? Here is an example: A friend of a friend received a copy of "Hello! This is your body speaking - first edition." She was complaining of knee pain and considering surgery. When as a last resort she read and applied the books principles she discovered her habit of wrapping her leg around the chair she liked to sit in. Here was the cause of her pain and when she stopped doing it the pain went away. It can be this simple for you to - no expensive sugary - no long painful rehabilitation - just discovering what you are doing and making a change to your own behavior. Visit us at www.TouchOfMary.com we have tutorial videos for you. These tools can assist you in increasing Awareness, Relief and Prevention of Pain and that is Pain Management. Scroll up and click the buy button today. It's your body claim it!
Author : Diamond Cole
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2017-12-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781983436741
A Pain Free Body provides you with details of how to find a lasting relief to general body pain and enhance your general well-being without the use of drugs. Chronic body pain is a common condition, coupled with the traumatizing pain it brings; it is something you would never want to experience. Diverse factors can cause pain in your body. Most times, it is due to the kind of lifestyle or the things you subject your body to on a regular basis. Whatever could be the cause of your body pain you; the good news is that you can find a lasting solution. Understanding that ceaseless body pain can be quite traumatizing and can as well interferes with your daily performance, A Pain Free Body offers an outstanding 100 percent success rate for the prevention of body pain. You can eliminate any body pain you experience now if you carefully follow the details discussed in this book. By having this resource in hand, you are only a couple of steps close to gaining the greatest gift of a pain-free body. A pain free body is a useful resource that will show you how to cure pain without having to spend so much on costly therapies or succumbing to the use of medications. A Pain Free Body offers you with the understanding of chronic body pain and its prevention. Have you been experiencing reoccurring body pain on a daily basis due to work stress or anxiety? Order a copy of the "A Pain Free Body" today and experience a lasting relief. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Diamond Cole had suffered many ailments for years. Due to his inability to discover the major cause of his issues on time, he was left overwhelmed with feelings of reoccurring frustration. But fortunate for him, things changed when he adopted self-care lifestyle. This successful breakthrough opened the way for him, helping him to be able to manage the various health conditions effortlessly. Now, he lives happier and healthier.
Author : Eric Goodman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0062315331
Radical in its simplicity, Dr. Eric Goodman’s visionary approach to mindful movement corrects the complacent adaptations that lead to back and joint pain, and teaches us to harness the body’s natural movement patterns into daily activities to make us fit, healthy, and pain free. Our sedentary lifestyle has led to an epidemic of chronic pain. By adapting to posture and movement that have us out of balance—including sitting all day at a keyboard, tilting our heads forward to look at our phones—we consistently compromise our joints, give our organs less room to function, and weaken our muscles. How we hold and live in our bodies is fundamental to our overall health, and the good news is that we all hold the key to a healthier body. Dr. Goodman has spent years studying human physiology and movement. He has trained world-class athletes for better performance, and has healed people of all ages and occupations of lifelong debilitating pain. His theory of self-healing is now available to everyone. His practical program trains the posterior muscle chain—shoulders, back, butt, and legs—shifting the burden of support away from joints and putting it back where it belongs: into large muscle groups. Filled with helpful diagrams and sixty color photographs, True to Form shows readers how to successfully integrate these powerful movements into everyday life—from playing with the kids to washing dishes to long hours in the office—transforming ordinary physical actions into active and mindful movements that help to eliminate pain, up your game, or simply feel more energetic. True to Form shows you how to move better, breathe better, and get back to using your body the way nature intended.
