Description
This issue considers hybridity in relation to performance, in particular the making, reception and study of performance as practices that emerge from heterogeneous sources, as well as the performative operation of hybridity in historical, cultural and political contexts. The term has a rich narrative, from roots in agriculture to applications in animal husbandry and metallurgy. It took on racialized overtones when it overlapped with the history of imperialism and slavery. In the twentieth century, hybridity became associated with subjectivity and identity, eventually leading to notions of cultural hybridity. Currently, hybridity has taken yet another inflection in light of technology, where to be human entails an ever-complex entanglement with non-human materiality. This issue is based on the belief that a reconsideration of hybridity is timely because of its application across so many diverse fields and that performance, in reflecting and influencing human activity, is strategically placed to conduct such a reappraisal. Accordingly, it explores the intersections between hybridity and performance as the coming together of performer and environment, materials and practitioners, performance and reception, event and analysis.
Contents
Editorial : On Hybridity
Frank Camilleri, Maria Kapsali
Towards an Ethics of Hybrid Agency in Performance
Duncan Jamieson
A Hybridity Continuum : The case of the performer’s bodyworlds
Frank Camilleri
Becoming-Leech : Animal–human–technological hybrid exchanges
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Across Bodily and Disciplinary Borders : Hybridity as methodology, expression, dynamic
Marco Donnarumma
Sonic Bodies : Sonification and the hybridization of aesthetic experience
Maria Kapsali
Hybridity in the Utopian City : A multisensory performance practice in action
Alda Terracciano
On Hybridity in Puppetry : Material ontologies
Marzenna Wiśniewska
Dementia in Dramaturgically Hybrid Performance and the Performance of Objects
Morgan Batch
Interweaving Deaf and Hearing Cultural Practices in Performance Processes
Michael Richardson
Learning from Experience : Disciplinary hybridity between group psychoanalysis and performance
Olive Mckeon
Experiencing Choreographed 4D visuals in a VR Dance Installation [artists’ pages]
Stephan Jürgens, Carla Fernandes, Rafael Kuffner
Queer Fiesta : Hybridity, drag and performance in Bolivian folklore
Enzo E. Vasquez Toral
British Multiculturalism and Interweaving Hybridities in South Asian Dance
Avanthi Meduri
More than Hybrid : Movement dramaturgy in the aftermath of the Gezi protests
Sinibaldo de Rosa
Towards Hybridity : Dance, tourism and cultural heritage
Rosemary E. Kostic Cisneros, Marie-Louise Crawley, Sarah Whatley
Photoscenography : Cuddington [artist’s pages]
Nick Hunt
The Essay, the Maligned : On the performativity of the essay as hybrid form
Jasper Delbecke
