Introduction Venturing into the Dark: Gloomy Multiplicities
Part1: Histories of The Dark
1. Affordances of the Night: Work After Dark in the Ancient World
2. Shakespeare’s Darkness: A Stage and State of Mind
3. In the Night Garden: Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London 1800-1859
4. A Short History of Artificial Darkness and Race
Part2: Cultural Practices in the Dark
5. Purda: The Curtain of Darkness
6. Inuit’s Perception of Darkness: A Singular Feature
7. Darkness in Videogame Landscapes: Corporeal and Representational Entanglements
8. Dancing in The Darkness To The Darkness
Part3: Sensing Darkness
9. Creatures of The Night: Bodies, Rhythms And Aurora Borealis
10. Contact Zones: The Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park as Creative Milieu
11. How Does the Dark Sound?
12. Ghosts and Empties
Part4: Designing with Darkness
13. Going Dark: The Theatrical Legacy of Battersea Art Centre’s Playing In The Dark Season
14. On Darkness, Duration and Possibility
15. Darkness as Canvas
16. Designing with Light and Darkness Afterword Revisiting the Dark: Diverse Encounters and Experiences