Katriina Andrianov’s article, “Children, Birds, Flowers—A Minor Musical: Performance as Prayer”, was published on October 17 in the second volume of Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects. Andrianov reflects the spectator’s spiritual experience emerging from a performative event not primarily regarded in that vein. She strives to find language and methodology to bring emotional reflection together with critical analysis and, doing so, suggests a model for addressing moments of intense experience and investigating them in scholarly discourse. Learn more in the Routledge publication: Puppet and Spirit.
Esa Kirkkopelto’s article, “Monster and Khôra: Re-Imagining the Performing Body with Plato”, was published in the Études des Lettres journal. Kirkkopelto examines Plato’s concepts of the monster and khôra (space, place), rethinking how these ideas can help reimagine the possibilities of the performing body in contemporary theatre and performance art. The article delves into the philosophical dimensions of the body and space in performance. You can read it here.