Digital Echoes Spaces for Intangible and Performance-based Cultural
This book explores the interplay between performing arts, intangible cultural heritage and digital environments through a compendium of essays on emerging practices and case studies, as well as critical, historical and theoretical perspectives. It feature
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Edited by Sarah Whatley Rosamaria K. Cisneros Amalia Sabiescu
Digital Echoes
Sarah Whatley • Rosamaria K. Cisneros Amalia Sabiescu Editors
Digital Echoes Spaces for Intangible and Performance-based Cultural Heritage
Editors Sarah Whatley Centre for Dance Research Coventry University Coventry, UK
Rosamaria K. Cisneros Centre for Dance Research Coventry University Coventry, UK
Amalia Sabiescu Institute for Media and Creative Industries Loughborough University London London, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-73816-1 ISBN 978-3-319-73817-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73817-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018938998 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Antonio Arcos / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
What is essential in any artistic revolution, in which I would suggest digital arts practice and its linkage to live performance can be situated, is its capacity to communicate, as Heidegger suggests, ‘what is’ and ‘what matters’. Significant art practice shows ‘what is’ present and what is appearing in its historical moment and reveals ‘what matters’ and what counts within that world. In our postdigital condition, what appears is the intangible and its potentiality, virtuality and immanence. What matters is how our shared cultural heritage, our history, is constructed within that intangibility. The phenomena of the intangible, be it a human voice, which rises to be heard and then fades into silence, a body in performance splendidly isolated in time and space, or the domain of virtual communications that circulat
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