Description
In these days in which existence is akin to making us visible and we have proneness to mediatized exposure, global unrest gives evidence of how we have condemned our senses to the obvious, noisy and tumultuous. The sovereignty we have granted to the visible is indicative of our ineptitude to respect our lives, account for our history and dismantle Anthropocentrism. It is precisely in this conflicting state of affairs that disappearance emerges as an alternative approach to put critical pressure on the construction of life, as it defies the visual, continuous and iterative forms of representation. Disappearance and its paradoxical manifestations—voluntary or forced—touch off delicate and thoughtful dramaturgies of the isolated, hidden or unconnected. Through its always fragmented and elusive stories and actions, a process of shared ‘attunement’ emerges, providing healing scenarios of dissent. This Performance Research issue brings together international scholars and artists who explore the fragilities of disappearance by acknowledging the effects of our daily ‘performance’ through essays, intimate scenes and provocations.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Esther Belvis Pons
Presence and Disappearance
José A. Sanchez
Landscapes of Disappearance
Edwin Culp
Erasing, Obfuscating and Teasing out from the Shadows : Performing/installing the camps’ (in)visibilities
Beth Weinstein
Disappearing Dance, Dancing Disappearance : On Arkadi Zaides’s choreography Archive
Krassimira Kruschkova
Diffracting Histories of Performance : Participatory practices in the historicization of political performance art
Hélia Marçal
To Dress Up in the Other’s Skin : Presence, absence and intersubjectivity
Maite Garbayo-Maetzu
¿Dónde está Bruno?/Where is Bruno? : Lukas Avendaño’s autobiography as a political act
Alejo Medina
Unexpected Witnesses : An artistic practice from a ‘plurality of ways of knowing’ surrounding political disappearance
Livia Daza-Paris
Testimony of Corporal Print and Traceable Sediments after El puro lugar
Geraldine Lamadrid Guerrero
Constructing Genealogies of Disobedient Performance : Disappearance by/in the media
Anita E. Cherian, Gargi Bharadwaj
Invisible Nature in the Case of Maud Allan
Helen Murphy
Seeping Out : The diminishment of the subject in Hito Steyerl’s How Not to Be Seen
Sebastian Althoff
Documenting Disappearance : A day in the ‘research laboratory’ of Iona and Peter Opie
Michael Eades
Fugitive Dance : Counter-censorship strategies for a disappearing future
Ignacio de Antonio Antón
Art Museums and Audibility : Invisible action and acoustic reporting in Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Earwitness Theatre (2018)
Georgina Guy
Ssssssssssssilence
Ixiar Rozas Elizalde
Bodies Reappear as Action : On synthetic voices in performance
Jaume Ferrete-Vázquez
‘Indirect Modes’ of Theatre : Intervals of the presence in Teatro Ojo’s Deus Ex Machina
Rodrigo Parrini, Patricio Villarreal Ávila
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous : Extinction in the work of Marcus Coates
Sarah Wade
Hydroponic Hovering : A speculative narrative of sustainability and the human relationship with the ground
Asli Uludag
Scattered Democratization : Performance in the times of disappearance of attention
Jelena Vesić
Dancing Writing (artists’ pages)
Saz & Dunna
The Image of the Ghost (artists’ pages)
Green & Owens
