Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye and Michael Shanks -- Being : place and time. How to presence effects: the work of Janet Cardiff / Josette Féral -- Environmental presence / Gabriella Giannachi -- Performance remains again / Rebecca Schneider -- Tension/release and the production of time in performance -- Being before: stage and gaze / Jon Erickson -- Appearing as embodied mind: defining a weak, a strong and a radical concept of presence / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- "Presence" as a question and emergent possibility: a case study from the performer's perspective / Phillip Zarrilli -- Out-standing standing-within: being alone together in the work of Bodies in flight / Simon Jones -- Mis-spectatorship, or, "redistributing the sensible" / Nicholas Ridout -- Looking back: a conversation about presence, 2006 / Tim Etchells, Gabriella Giannachi and Nick Kaye -- Traces: after presence. Temporal anxiety/"presence" in absentia: experiencing performance as documentation / Amelia Jones -- Here and now / Lynn Hershman Leeson and Michael Shanks -- Photographic presence: time and the image / Nick Kaye -- Neither here nor there / Mike Pearson.

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