Immersive and Pervasive Performance

Madelon Hoedt

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_60

Immersive and Pervasive Performance

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Across the past decade, ‘immersive performance’ has become an oft-used label for a wide variety of practices, alongside the concept of pervasive work. Both terms point towards experiences that introduce audiences to new worlds, which may or may not be related to our everyday reality. This chapter will briefly introduce definitions of immersive and pervasive performance, and place these alongside examples that borrow from gothic and horror traditions. Ultimately, I aim to show how these modern experiences link back to the earliest days of horror literature, and why the immersive and pervasive provide a particularly fertile expression of the Gothic.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic
Editors	Clive Bloom
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	60
Pages	1019-1031
Number of pages	13
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030331368
ISBN (Print)	9783030331351, 3030331350
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_60
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2020

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Madelon Hoedt
- M.E.Hoedt@hud.ac.uk
- Department of Media and Performance - Senior Lecturer in Drama
- School of Music, Humanities and Media
- Research Centre for Performance Practices - Member
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