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Half Year Subscription to Performance Research – 4 issues

Helen Gethin — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:31:45 +0000

A reduced-price personal subscription to the Performance Research Journal (PR) is available to members of the CPR Friends’ Association. An annual Associate Membership of CPR costs £10.

With this membership you can subscribe yourself or a friend to a twelve-month subscription to printed copies of the journal or two six-month subscriptions (within one calendar year). PR publishes eight themed issues each year and therefore a half year subscription will entitle you to four issues, which will be delivered directly to your nominated address for the discounted price of £50 (£12.50 per issue).

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Full Year Subscription to Performance Research – 8 issues

Helen Gethin — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:14:10 +0000

A reduced-price personal subscription to the Performance Research Journal (PR) is available to members of the CPR Friends’ Association. An annual Associate Membership of CPR costs £10.

With this membership you can subscribe yourself or a friend to a twelve-month subscription to printed copies of the journal. PR publishes eight themed issues each year and these will be delivered directly to your nominated address for the discounted price of £110.00 (£13.75 per issue).

Membership and subscription details will automatically be assigned to the name and address you provide at checkout.

If the subscription is a gift or you have any queries, please please contact Helen Gethin: email: info@thecpr.org.uk / phone: +44 (0)1970 358 021.

If you prefer not to subscribe online, please complete and return the membership form found here.

You can purchase an Institutional Subscription (for printed and/or online access) via the publisher here.

28.3 On Invasion

Helen Gethin — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:07:55 +0000

We live in a world of unpredictability, fracture and powerlessness. Acts of violence, invasion and oppression, both seen and unseen, pervade all aspects of life and threaten the viability of the planet. Yet, perhaps because of this powerlessness and fracture, this is also a time of solidarity, of acts of resistance both large and small, and of friendship, love and bravery. The contributions to ‘On Invasion’ negotiate in creative and provocative ways this confusing and confounding time and in doing so they ask us to consider the role, value and power of art to intervene, to destabilize, to disrupt and to question the status quo.

READ THE EDITORIAL AND ABSTRACTS ONLINE

1 On Invasion: Performance, resistance and refusal

HELENA GREHAN AND MIRIAM HAUGHTON

5 Performances of Memory: Collective resistance in the

aftermath of violence

DIMITRA GKITSA

12 On Dammed Landscapes and Invasive Infrastructures

MILIJA GLUHOVIC

22 UNcovering Stories of Displacement and Hope: Picasso

Presents Gernika at the United Nations

BEGOÑA ECHEVERRIA AND ANNIKA C. SPEER

28 I Was Thinking [Artist pages]

NATHALIE ROZANES

30 UnCooked Meets: Performing rediscovery in Aotearoa

NICOLA HYLAND

36 Ecological Performance and ‘Settler Creep’: Making space to

resist invasion

MELANIE KLOETZEL

46 Crafting Inoculation: The Indigenous futurity of Ruth

Cuthand’s beadwork

KRISTEN HOLFEUER

54 Resilient Matriarchs: Honouring women, kinship and

resurgence in an Indigenous adaptation of Euripides’ Trojan

Women

SABINA SWETA SEN-PODSTAWSKA WITH FLOYD FAVEL

64 Voice is Vision: Black feminism, invasion and spatial justice

in conceptual German performative space [Artist pages]

JASMINE TUTUM

69 The Slow Emergency of the Future: Negative dialectics in

The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes (2019) by Back

to Back Theatre

HANNAH RAY

76 Embodied Histories of Gender and Generation in Post-

Conflict Northern Ireland

SHONAGH HILL

83 Invading Capitalist Ageism in Applied Theatre through

Anti-Ageism Praxis

GEORGIA GRACE BOWERS

90 Invasion, Replacement and Colonial Anxiety in The War of

the Worlds

KEVIN BROWN

98 The Men in White [Artist pages]

BILL AITCHISON

100 Intimate Archives: Love letters in wartime Europe

PAULINE MORNET

107 Invasion as Trespassing Spatial Boundaries: Anti-domestic

violence during the COVID-19 pandemic

YINGJUN WEI

114 The Aesthetics of Invasion: Differentiated bodies in

performance art

FELIPE HENRIQUE MONTEIRO OLIVEIRA AND ANDREA

PAGNES (VESTANDPAGE)

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REVIEWS

121 Ashes to Ashes: Is expression of female violence just

too much?

KFIR LAPID-MASHALL

122 A Politics of Listening

JACOB MALLINSON BIRD

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124 Notes on Contributors

28.2 On Meeting

Helen Gethin — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:36:27 +0000

As the extractive economies of sharing and experience continue to encroach upon and profit from every available form of sociality, what are the prospects for the long-cherished modalities of performance, such as encounter, gathering, congregation and assembly? Post-pandemic, what kinds of affects and effects might be generated by coming together otherwise – or simply to become intimate in unfamiliar ways? Taking meeting as a blurry genre that encompasses a host of ways in which collectivity for humans and the more-than-human are negotiated, this issue brings together reflections on a set of singular places, events, spaces and actions that share a commitment to reparative and regenerative forms of contact.

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1 Editorial: On Meeting

SIMON BAYLY AND JOHANNA LINSLEY

4 More than a Meeting: Performing the workshop in the art institution

BEN CRANFIELD AND MARIANNE MULVEY

14 The First Thing We Make is the Conditions of our Meeting: A gathering on gathering [Artist pages]

THERON SCHMIDT WITH DIANA DAMIAN MARTIN, MICK DOUGLAS, REZA MIRABI, ELLEN O’BRIEN, RAJNI SHAH, VAL SMITH, LIZZIE THOMSON AND JULIE VULCAN

26 The Minutes of the Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions: Tools in the Garden Shed [Artist pages]

SOPHIE SEITA AND NAOMI WOO

29 Freedom is a Performance Hangout* (*Click on this fake sweat distraction technique to release infinite scroll)

OWEN G. PARRY

39 Ibu in Post-authoritarian Agonism: Protest and mother figures in contemporary Indonesia

JONED SURYATMOKO

49 WE/Time/Trembling/Softly: Chorus for ten voices out of 173467349034879236587595356416534

ANNE BRANNYS AND EDITH KOLLATH

62 first draft·ings: To recover the intimacy of transmission through slow gatherings

SUMEDHA BHATTACHARYYA, SONAM CHATURVEDI, PRIYANK GOTHWAL AND PRIYESH GOTHWAL

70 Contracts as Protocols of Governmentality in Performance Art

DESPINA ZACHAROPOULOU

80 Being and Pub: Phenomenology of pub meeting as performance

SAM ČERMÁK

88 wind meeting: meeting Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s winds

AMAARA RAHEEM

94 Meet – An intimate performative encounter format

CHRISTINE GAIGG

101 rendezvous: no longer not yet i

MARK ROBSON [Artist pages]

106 The Grand Indo Meeting and the Grand Indo Future

JEFFREY FLYNN GAN

110 Meeting at Chisenhale Dance Space in the 1980s

RACHAEL DAVIES

116 Being on Time

SOUNDCAMP: DAWN SCARFE AND GRANT SMITH

121 WORK! From Home: Queer nightlife on Zoom

MADISON MOORE

125 Practising Freedom: Combatting modern slavery in heterotopic spaces

STEPHEN COLLINS AND NII KWATERLAI QUARTEY

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REVIEWS

130 Playing (with) the Machine I Already Am

IOANA B. JUCAN

131 Book as Meeting Place: Dance, drama and cross-culture reconciliation across the life of physical theatre company Marrugeku

AMANDA CARD

132 Histories, Stories and Encounters with Butō’s Mythopoesis

KATJA CENTONZE

134 Shadows Beneath These Steps

ANNA JAYNE KIMMEL

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136 Notes on Contributors

28.1 On Blood

Helen Gethin — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:14:28 +0000

Blood is polyvalent, it moves, flows, transfers, is pumped and pours, but it also sticks, plugs, clots and coagulates. The visibility of blood exposes the fragility of boundaries and the permeability of bodies, offering both a fluid potentiality and a threat. The fluidity of blood challenges the notion of stable systems. The many meanings ascribed to blood are far from stable or self-evident. Through a performance studies lens, ‘On Blood’ invites interdisciplinary discussions and new perspectives on how blood is read and positioned as a bodily substance, material property and metaphor in areas such as religious festivals and contexts, menstrual performances, political activism, professional wrestling, live art and pop culture.

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1 Editorial

SARAH CREWS AND P. SOLOMON LENNOX

5 Bumps, Breakages, Bandages: The blood of professional wrestling as transdisciplinary optic

CLAIRE WARDEN

11 Congealing the Abject: Blood in performance as feminine- feminist meaning-making

LAURA HARTNELL

20 XX

DIANA GEORGIOU

22 Et Anima Est Sanguis et Sanguis Est Anima: ‘First let’s make poems, with blood’: VestAndPage blood writing [artist pages]

ANDREA PAGNES AND VERENA STENKE

27 On the Question of the Artistic Transmission of Political Death (II): Zehra Doğan’s practice with blood

ZEYNEP SARIKARTAL

36 Blood Re-born: The post-mortem temporality of vulnerable authors of mercy

SYLVIA SOLAKIDI

45 Bleeding Foreheads: Divine and healing bodies in the rituals and performances of Keralam

AKHILA VIMAL C.

55 ‘Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood’: Real presence and personhood in Midnight Mass and Lips of Thomas

CORMAC POWER

62 Keeping up Appearances: The bloody beauty work of Kim Kardashian’s vampire facial

JENNIFER DAWN WHITNEY

70 Menstrual Blood, Drinks and Scrubs in Performance Art Research [artist pages]

ISABEL BURR RATY

74 Mother, Daughter and the Shame of Menarche

KATLEHO MATSATSI GABRIELLA RAMAFALO

77 A Period Piece that Endures: Twenty-eight reflections on Sloughing

ALEXIS BARD JOHNSON AND RAEGAN TRUAX

88 ‘Don’t Ask for my Blood, Poland!’: Pro-choice protests and the visuality of women’s blood

AGNIESZKA SOSNOWSKA

96 Live Art: Blood, the land and the role of the artist’s body

CARALI McCALL

106 ‘Who Cleans the Blood of the City?’: Teresa Margolles’s ¿De qué otra cosa podríamos hablar? and the domestic labour of the crime scene

BRYONY WHITE

114 Signs of Life – Hearts, Blood and our Breath: An artistic dialogue on embodiment and boundaries

TOBIAS KLEIN AND JANE PROPHET

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REVIEWS

124 Knotting Postdigital Performance

ARIANNA B. GASS

125 Between Japan and the Global: Marking Okada Toshiki’s innovations

JESSICA NAKAMURA

127 Racial Kinaesthesia and Coalition in Movement

BRODERICK D. V. CHOW

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129 Notes on Contributors

27.8 On Diagrams & the Diagrammatic

Helen Gethin — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 13:49:06 +0000

Focusing on diagrams in the performing arts, this issue brings together theoretical and practice-based perspectives on the diagrammatic, understood both as a knowledge-generating device and a performative instrument with distinctive aesthetic and intersocial qualities. It surveys how acts of diagramming can generate fluid constellations between concepts, words and images, and thus set in motion their transformation and translation into visceral and spatial realities. Blending speculative reflection with artistic research, the collected articles unfold hybrid, non-dualist territories in which performances are examined as palimpsests of graphic textures. The issue On Diagrams & the Diagrammatic seeks to expand the discussion on sociopolitical entanglements of contemporary performing practices by questioning if and how theatre and dance can be comprehended diagrammatically. Organized around several thematic trajectories, the contributions converge on questions of cartography, affectivity, notations, archives and the political.

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1 Editorial: Diagramming performances

ANDREJ MIRČEV

SPECULATIVE DIAGRAMMATICS

10 How Diagrammatic are Diagrammatic Instruments? Towards

an AB–DE–IN model of artistic research

ADELHEID MERS

22 Theatre Performance through the Intermedial Lens:

Overlapping Elleström’s medium-centered model of

communication and Bentley’s minimal definition of theatre

ELENI TIMPLALEXI

35 History Put in Touch with Itself: Diagram and re-enactment

BECKETT WARZER

THE CARTOGRAPHIC DIAGRAM

42 Private Eyes that Draw Superimposed Lines: Weak signals,

atmospherics and choreographic diagramming in Room 22,

AWB 2021: Hotel Belgrade

TAMARA TOMIĆ-VAJAGIĆ

54 The Residency as Diagram: Holding virtual and global

space–time through the diagrammatic

DEE HEDDON, TRACY MACKENNA AND MISHA MYERS

58 Web Walking, the Landscape Pattern and Place-story

Diagrams in Performance

HELEN BILLINGHURST AND PHIL SMITH

63 Drawing Oblivion: Slits, holes, cracks and portals

MADELEINE COLLIE WITH RUBIANE MAIA

69 Let This Sentence Be Your Guide: Diagrammatic alterity and

performative de(X)-touring of urban cityscapes

THOMAS LAVAZZI

DIAGRAMS/ARCHIVES/TIMELINES

77 A Puzzle of Diagrams (Incorrect Collective Noun/

Incomplete Collection)

RICHARD GOUGH

81 Diagramming a Timeline of Dance

ANA BIGOTTE VIEIRA, JOÃO DOS SANTOS MARTINS AND CARLOS MANUEL OLIVEIRA

89 Mapping and Cross-mapping the Hi:story of Performance

Art in Switzerland through Collective Research for Deviant

Understandings

SABINE GEBHARDT FINK AND DOROTHEA RUST

98 Unintentional Poetics of Deleuze’s Diagram between

Mapping and Tracing: Performances in art and space by

Rauschenberg, Beuys and Paolini

JAKUB ZDEBIK

BODIES, MOVEMENTS AND AFFECTS

108 Rudolf Laban’s Diagrammatics: Moving structures for

movement-thinking

PAOLA CRESPI

117 Feeling(s) without Organs: Performing emotions in

blueprints and schemes

ANIA MALINOWSKA

125 Epitaphic Readings: Diagrams as (re)incarnations

VICTORIA SHARPLES

133 Thinking About Dance Dramaturgy through Diagrams

LIZA KARDAMI

GRAPHIC TRACES AND PERFORMANCE

140 Towards a Rattling of the Everyday: Performance scores and

graphic notation

LISA FAY

145 The Time of Diagrams: A theory of notation

NATILEE HARREN

153 Notation as Diagram: Transnotators

CHIEH-TING HSIEH

158 The Art of Notation Revisited

JOHN RAJCHMAN

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REVIEWS

166 White Privilege and the Return of the Real

RYAN PLATT

168 ‘Theatre’s Computational Turn’

SARAH BAY-CHENG

170 The Arts of the Grid: Interdisciplinary insights on gridded

modalities in conversation with the arts

JOANNE TOMPKINS

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172 Notes on Contributors

27.6-7 On Care

Helen Gethin — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:44:09 +0000

This issue of Performance Research seeks to expand on and advance ideas and practices of care. During the last decade, the arts have adopted care as a hands-on concept to rethink how work is created and how it relates to its audiences. Increasingly aware that care is a performative practice that also requires imagination (Hamington 2010), artists have investigated what an aesthetics of care could be, and have sought ways to take care of one another during the creative process. Similarly, arts organizations feel the need to take better care of the people and structures they consist of – an act that requires a change to these structures and institutions, which are often already in a state of crisis. How we might think of care now – as an idea, a practice, a politics and/or an actuality that answers to the fluidity of contemporary crises and situations?

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1 Stranger than Kindness: Crises of care and performance research

KRISTOF VAN BAARLE, FELIPE CERVERA AND HELENA GREHAN

5 Ugly Feelings: Disruptive performances of race and care during

the pandemic

AMANDA STUART FISHER

15 Collaboration and Co-finitude: An agenda of care and ends

KRISTOF VAN BAARLE, RUSTOM BHARUCHA, FELIPE CERVERA,

STEVE DIXON, EVA HORN, KYOKO IWAKI, EERO LAINE, ZARINA

MUHAMMAD, AMANDA PIÑA AND SANKAR VENKATESWARAN

26 Conceptualizing Care in Partnering

ILYA VIDRIN

32 Dramaturgy of Response-ability: Exploring relational ways of thinking-with in the apparatus of theatre

JULIA SCHADE

42 Three Acts of Care in Performance and Beyond: A non-linear testimony

ÖZGÜL AKINCI, KONSTANTINA GEORGELOU, JENNIFER JOAN THOMPSON

52 A Manifesto for Care with regards to Labour [Artist pages]

KATHERYN OWENS AND CHRIS GREEN

54 Care Aesthetics, Coronavirus and Everyday Life

JAMES THOMPSON

62 COVID Relief and the Dynamics of State Care in South Africa’s

Performance Economy

BRYAN SCHMIDT AND SARAH SADDLER

71 ‘Who Cares?’ Exposing the Critical Paradox of Care in Performances of Disability and Disease Through the Lens of Disclosure

KATE MAGUIRE-ROSIER AND JANET GIBSON

81 Ashray and Shushrusha: Performing embodied care through blind theatre in India

RAJDEEP KONAR

92 Careful Lessons from For You’s Artists & Elders [Artist pages]

ERIKA CHONG SHUCH, ROWENA RICHIE AND RYAN TACATA

94 (M)Othering Like Us: Open Casket, Dining in Refugee Camps and Parker Bright’s intervention into the presumption of care

T. NIKKI CESARE SCHOTZKO AND GIORELLE DIOKNO

103 Unconventional Carers: Children caring in and through performance

SUZANNE LITTLE

111 Y-Performance, Care and Intergenerational Response: Grieving for ‘ungrievable’ bodies in the Tuam Oral History Project

MIRIAM HAUGHTON

120 Performing the Politics of Kindness in Aotearoa New Zealand

EMMA WILLIS

128 ‘Does the Prime Minister Care?’: Spectacular solidarity, infelicitous performatives and the doubly fictitious commodification of care in India during the COVID-19 pandemic

RASHNA DARIUS NICHOLSON

136 A Grammar of Care: Morality, embodied emotion and the work of reintegration and reincorporation in Colombia

MARÍA ESTRADA-FUENTES AND ALISON RIBEIRO DE MENEZES

145 Complicating Care: Vulnerability reimagined through performance

ORION RISK AND CHRISTINE GARLOUGH

154 Breathing Space: The invitation to exist and breathe

VANESSA DAMILOLA MACAULAY

163 Performing Waria/Performing Care: Defining care in waria contexts

PAIGE MORGAN JOHNSON

171 Potential Singularity and Transformative Instability [Artist pages]

DAVID WOODS

174 Cura, the Curatorial and Paradoxes of Care

ED MCKEON

183 Injecting the Essayistic into the Curatorial: In search of a new ethics of care to the audience in exhibition-making practices

JASPER DELBECKE

191 Governing Care: Research ethics boards

ASHER WARREN

202 Care-filled Futures [Artist pages]

ROSEANNA DIAS, CELIA TURLEY AND CARMEN WONG

204 A Listening of the Flesh: Towards an ethics of care in choreohaptic practices

JONAS SCHNOR

212 Goodnight, Sleep Tight: Training performers as palliative carers in an age of system collapse

KESIA GUILLERY, JORGE LOPES RAMOS AND PERSIS-JADÉ MARAVALA

221 ‘Do We Need to Talk about Prince Harry?’ Thoughts on care and the politics of critique

DANIELLE GILSON, HELENA GREHAN AND JOSEPHINE WILSON

229 Growing Trees of Culture: Using Appreciative Inquiry and embodied placemaking as strategies for self-regulation inside the conservatoire

ANDREA L. MOOR AND JEREMY NEIDECK WITH JEANETTE FABILA AND MARGI BROWN ASH

238 Collaborating Across Borders in Isolating Times; Four Artistic Strategies for International Cocreation, with Examples

ALYS LONGLEY

241 Counterpointing Care: Performing with fungi in three (in)different acts

ALIA PARKER AND STEPHEN LOO

251 Towards Becoming an Ecology of Care

CARE ECOLOGIES GROUP: VALENTINA CURANDI, INTE GLOERICH, ANIA MOLENDA, MAAIKE MUNTINGA, NATALIA SANCHEZ QUERUBIN, NIENKE SCHOLTS AND MARLOEKE VAN DER VLUGT

260 Come to the Table [Artist pages]

LAURIE BETH CLARK AND MICHAEL PETERSON

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REVIEWS

262 Intimate Engagements with the Earth

SHELBY BREWSTER

264 Urban Aspiration and its Discontents

KARIN SHANKAR

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266 Notes on Contributors

27.5 On Solidarity

Helen Gethin — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 10:53:01 +0000

This special issue critically examines the notion of solidarity from and within the field of performance. Solidarity as a concept is ethically vacuous and in need of a clear ethical and political agenda. This issue specifically addresses questions concerning the ways that solidarity is ‘performed’ and the kinds of contributions the field of performance can make in working towards social equality. Across the various contributions, the issue sketches out the ways that solidarity is practised in and through performance as a potential generative force for social change. In discussing situated practices within various socio-political contexts, it examines a variety of solidary formations and bindings, such as within racial and religious minority groups, as well as solidarity existing across difference. It offers discussions of the ways solidarity is performed in colonial contexts, in post-disaster relief work, as well as in local activist groups.

CONTENTS:

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1 Editorial: On Solidarity

NOYALE COLIN AND STEFANIE GABRIELE

SACHSENMAIER

4 Solidarity in Performance: Considering activist processes in

neoliberal times

STEFANIE GABRIELE SACHSENMAIER

16 Solidarity as a Common Notion: The transindividual ‘we’ of

social movements in Southern Europe since 2011

BOJANA CVEJIĆ

26 Conversations and Convergences for Solidarity

YOUNGSOOK CHOI, CIAN DAYRIT, ANNIE JAEL KWAN

AND CUI YIN MOK

35 Who is Afraid of Mourning? Mourning as a site of solidarity in

South Asia

BRAHMA PRAKASH

45 Theatre and Solidarity among the Transnational Alevi

Community: Memory, trauma and political economy

RÜYA KALINTAŞ

54 Utopian Performatives Matter: Creating solidarity with the

Korean/Japanese diaspora

BOMI CHOI

64 Defiant Joy and Care-Based Solidarity in Puerto Rican

Theatre

COLLEEN RUA

74 Confronting Coloniality’s Unpayable Debts: (Per)Forming

solidarity in a settler society

REBECCA STRUCH

85 Moving Together: Building a spirit of solidarity through sitespecific

performance in post-Katrina New Orleans

WESTON TWARDOWSKI

96 Becoming Us: Finding solidarity across difference

JACKY LANSLEY WITH FERGUS EARLY, JREENA GREEN,

ESTHER HUSS, INGRID MACKINNON AND TIM TAYLOR

111 Performing Solidarity

NOYALE COLIN

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REVIEWS

125 Sensation and Sensibility: Ron Athey’s archive of feeling

LAUREN DELAND

126 Reorientations and Reckonings in Response to Wild Weather

ALEXANDRA TÁLAMO

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128 Notes on Contributors

27.3-4 On Protest

Helen Gethin — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 10:47:08 +0000

This edition of Performance Research offers critical examinations of contemporary performances of protest across the globe. Protest can be understood as theatre, and more particularly as a form of public manifestation that draws upon a wide repertoire of representational devices. This edition asks how protest feels, and who is doing the feeling? It considers the performativity of protest. It pays particular regard to the extent to which protest achieves change and the ways in which historical protests help to inform judgements of the conduct, legitimacy and efficacy of current protest actions. What historical instances are invoked to draw comparisons to current forms of activism and resistance? How do contemporary protests draw on historical repertoires of protest that reflect or extend beyond their specific political contexts? Do protest strategies and tactics need to evolve as languages of protest become a default mode of mainstream political discourse?

CONTENTS

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Editorial: On Protest
1 ANDY LAVENDER AND JULIA PEETZ

13 On the Ends and Endings of Protest
MATT JONES AND JIMENA ORTUZAR

26 Performing Democracy: Non-verbal protest through
a democratic lens
SELEN A. ERCAN, HANS ASENBAUM AND RICARDO F.
MENDONÇA

38 On the ‘Doing’ of ‘Something’: A theoretical defence of
‘performative protest’
TEEMU PAAVOLAINEN

48 Gaming Protest
ANDREW LENNON

51 The Deep, Dark Play of the US Capitol Riots
CHRISTOPHER GROBE

63 Games and Playfulness: Bodiless solidarity in Hong Kong and
Mainland China
YIOU PENELOPE PENG AND LUOLIN ZHAO

71 Digital Contention in Latin America: Material and affective
infrastructures to address online activism as performance
MARTÍN ZÍCARI

81 ‘Shut Up and Dance’
TOM HASTINGS

90 What the heck? – hacking HEK [Artist pages]
Garrett Lynch IRL

92 Performance and Protest as Creative World-Building for
Black Liberation: A conversation with artist/activist Jordan
Occasionally
JOY BROOKE FAIRFIELD

98 Policing Exhibit B in St Denis and Paris: Afterlives of the
French Imperial state at the theatre doors
CAOIMHE MADER MCGUINNESS

105 The Power of Unwanted Presence: The performance
aesthetics of women’s protests in Iran
AZADEH GANJEH

112 Shifting Boundaries of ‘Perceived’ Legitimacy: Animative
scenarios from the farmers’ protests in India
UPASANA MAHANTA AND GARGI BHARADWAJ

122 COVID-19 Protests and the Performative Force of Untruth:
Some Arendtian intimations
GURUR ERTEM

125 Banners and Memes: The rhetoric of protests in defence of
democracy and women’s rights in Poland in 2015 and 2020
AGNIESZKA KAMPKA

136 We Will Outlive the Blood You Bleed [Artist pages]
JAMIE LEWIS-HADLEY

138 The Remnant of My Volition (Force Majeure) [Artist pages]
MORGAN WONG

139 Gezi’s Many Women in Red: A genealogy of an icon from
street to stage
PIETER VERSTRAETE

150 South Africa’s Student Activist Turn in the Decolonial Present
AYLWYN M. WALSH

161 I am Queen Mary: On sustained protest and Denmark’s
‘colonial amnesia’
HELENE GRØN

167 Protesting Venetians: A carnival attitude
PETER O’ROURKE

172 A Maiden Speech: This is an emergency
LENA ŠIMIĆ

177 When Theatre Can Wait: The ambiguity of silence in activist
theatre
RÉKA POLONYI

180 The Politics of Urban Silence: Sound installation [Artist pages]
ANDROMACHI VRAKATSELI
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REVIEWS
182 The Formation of Identity and the Disruption of Colonial
Ideological Hegemony
OFOSUWA M. ABIOLA

183 A Radical Imagination
HONEY CRAWFORD

185 After the Ordinary
TOM HASTINGS
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187 Notes on Contributors

27.2 On Touch

Helen Gethin — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:27:30 +0000

This special issue deals with touch as it appears, is deployed, applied and experienced in the production and reception of performance. However, rather than continue to perpetuate a dyadic account – of touching and being touched – in which it remains a fundamentally passive receipt of sensory information about other things, the issue’s authors give attention to the active, the multiple and the mysterious in the act of touching. To reduce touch to sensation alone would be to obscure the tension and release inherent to the acts of hefting, grasping, stroking, pressing and testing that are shaped and afforded in acts and events of performance. Even more than this, as the issue’s authors attest, to attend to these acts is to describe an aesthetics – a knowing in sensing – in the admixture of bodies, environments and events.

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1 Editorial: On Touch

ASHER WARREN AND MARTIN WELTON

7 Touch (Sk)Interrupted? Dante or Die’s Skin Hunger: A socially distanced performance installation

FREYA VERLANDER

16 Trust Fall: Rubbing rocks and the irreconcilability of objects

TED HIEBERT

25 Touching Moment [Artist pages]

ROSEMARY LEE

27 The Sound of a Door: Reflections on tactility of sound design for Feeling Thing, a dance film by Candoco dance company and Jo Bannon

JULIE ROSE BOWER

36 Wearing a Second Skin of Sound: Touching the other through sounding and listening [Artist pages]

JAN SCHACHER

38 Cassils with Jean-Luc Nancy: ‘[T]he touch is not less deep than the wound’ (Nancy 1991: 98)

WENDY HUBBARD

46 soft matter: Re-pair [Artist pages]

SIMON WHITEHEAD

48 Touching through Music, Touching through Words: The performance and performativity of pianistic touch in musical and literary settings

ALEXANDRA HUANG-KOKINA

56 Eye Contact and the Performative Touch of Blindness

DEVON HEALEY

64 Sonic Touch: Charting connections in contemporary sound-led performance practice

MILES O’NEIL WITH HOLLY AUSTIN, CAYN BORTHWICK, ALISDAIR MACINDOE, TAMARA SAULWICK AND GLEN WALTON

72 Enduring Touch

MISCHA TWITCHIN

81 To Kill or Die For: The imperceptible tactility of public feelings in Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists by Tiago Rodrigues

ANA PAIS

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REVIEWS

91 Dancing and Reading across Difference, with Love

REBECCA CHALEFF

92 Embodied Rhetoric

HEATH PENNINGTON

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94 Notes on Contributors