Freya Verlander
Biographic Data
| ID | 6723259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Freya Verlander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Freya |
| FAMILY NAME | Verlander |
| SIGNATURE | VERLANDER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4546-3856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
(Skin)Aesthetics ( First Manifesto )
'(Skin)Aesthetics (First Manifesto)' offers an introduction to my new performance theory and method of performance analysis: ‘(skin)aesthetics’. In the spirit of a manifesto, I outline the theoretical development of (skin)aesthetics as an approach and its objectives. (Skin)aesthetics focusses on the spectator’s skin as an active and reciprocal site of engagement in the performance environment. It considers the way that other materials, and senses…
Touch (Sk)Interrupted: Dante or Die’s Skin Hunger: A socially distanced performance installation
This article focuses on Dante or Die Theatre's socially distanced performance installation Skin Hunger (2021), an intimate one-on-one experience which explores the fundamental role that touch plays in our lives. The desire for contact is enduring in the social and sensorial imagination, particularly now during what Richard Kearney has termed the ‘pandemic eclipse of the tactile’. Elsewhere I have asked whether our tactile starvation will manifest…
You’re certainly Edward Sexton with that needle and thread’: Fantasies of sharing, tearing and wearing the ‘Common Skin’ in American Horror Story
American Horror Story (AHS) (2011–present) revels in the production and presentation of ‘expanding and shrinking [skin] cut open and stitched together, oozing and contained’. Research has considered wounded skin(s), skin as the site of historical or psychical trauma, and skin as the signifier of changing status; however, Didier Anzieu’s theory of The Skin Ego ([1985] 2016) has yet to be applied. Skin is ‘figured in Gothic as the ultimate boundary…
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You’re certainly Edward Sexton with that needle and thread’: Fantasies of sharing, tearing and wearing the ‘Common Skin’ in American Horror Story
American Horror Story (AHS) (2011–present) revels in the production and presentation of ‘expanding and shrinking [skin] cut open and stitched together, oozing and contained’. Research has considered wounded skin(s), skin as the site of historical or psychical trauma, and skin as the signifier of changing status; however, Didier Anzieu’s theory of The Skin Ego ([1985] 2016) has yet to be applied. Skin is ‘figured in Gothic as the ultimate boundary…
Touch (Sk)Interrupted: Dante or Die’s Skin Hunger: A socially distanced performance installation
This article focuses on Dante or Die Theatre's socially distanced performance installation Skin Hunger (2021), an intimate one-on-one experience which explores the fundamental role that touch plays in our lives. The desire for contact is enduring in the social and sensorial imagination, particularly now during what Richard Kearney has termed the ‘pandemic eclipse of the tactile’. Elsewhere I have asked whether our tactile starvation will manifest…
(Skin)Aesthetics ( First Manifesto )
'(Skin)Aesthetics (First Manifesto)' offers an introduction to my new performance theory and method of performance analysis: ‘(skin)aesthetics’. In the spirit of a manifesto, I outline the theoretical development of (skin)aesthetics as an approach and its objectives. (Skin)aesthetics focusses on the spectator’s skin as an active and reciprocal site of engagement in the performance environment. It considers the way that other materials, and senses…
Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (2 works) · Art history (1 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (1 works)