Performance and Temporalisation ― Time Happens

Performance and Temporalisation features a diverse collection of scholars and artists gathered from across performance studies, philosophy, architecture, film and new media studies writing of a moment when time happens. The volume offers different accounts of the coming forth of time as it shapes, and is shaped, by human experience. Whether drawing, designing, watching performance, being baptised, digitally mediated, playing cricket, dancing, eating, walking or looking at caves, each author proposes their own conception and doing of time that underlies and activates their art making, scholarship and everyday lives. These essays engage with several philosophical traditions in their discourse and practice, offering multiple perspectives on the temporalised dimensions of place, space, bodies, movement, language, reality, subjectivity, identity, transcendence, world and other. As a new contribution to the discipline of Performance Philosophy, the book elucidates philosophical problems through a range of performative practices while clarifying philosophical thinking for the understanding of performance.

Stuart Grant is a lecturer and researcher in Performance Studies in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University, Australia. He is a site-specific ecological performer, punk rock singer and performance phenomenologist, and believes that performance can make the world a better place.

Jodie McNeilly is a researcher at the Australian Catholic University, Australia. Working at the intersection of dance, philosophy and technology, she holds a Degree in Philosophy and Doctorate in Performance Studies from The University of Sydney, and she is a choreographer with interests in dance dramaturgy.

Maeva Veerapen is a part-time lecturer at the Open University of Mauritius and the University of Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius. She also works as an Argentine tango teacher and dancer at night. She is interested in applying a phenomenological approach to embodiment in order to gain new insights into performance practices.