Description
‘On Diffraction’ is an invitation to explore the nuanced performativities of the quantum world in and for performance studies. This issue responds to Haraway and Barad’s call for creating urgent, new ways of thinking about the performance and performativity of phenomena that we often take for granted—the world of atoms and photons, waves and wavelengths, microbes and microscopes—that extend beyond human-centred ways of performing the world, in all its vibrancy. We will foreground the spooky, dynamic and subtle ways that diffraction impacts on our understanding of how matter comes to matter—on how all things emerge out of tiny indeterminacies that shape us and the world we live in. At the heart of this issue lies the redefining of political response-ability: how we might go about creating new, critical and performance-based investigations into what it is to perform and be performed within an entanglement of non/human agencies.
Diffraction for Performance Research : A new materialist approach to theory/practice
Annouchka C. Bayley
Notes from the Semiotic Chora : Theatre and performance as affective diffraction
Laura Hartnell
Diffracted Readings of the Future : Practices of ‘Differentiation-Entanglement’
Natalia Esling, Anna Jayne Kimmel, Azadeh Sharifi, Asher Warren, Asher Warren
Atmosphere and Intra-action : Feeling entangled agencies in theatre spaces
Sarah Lucie
Stumbling Matters : On memory as matter that matters
Per Roar
Diffraction, Mixture and Cut-Ups in Performing with Plants
Annette Arlander
The Diffraction of Cells : Places to (mis)carry [artist’s pages]
Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley
The (Im)possibility of Communicating with Other Species
Christina Stadlbauer, Bartaku
Entangled Gestures and Technical Objects : Illuminating embodiment and digital experience through diffraction in performance
EL Putnam
Diffracted Temporalities : Trajal Harrell’s other dance histories
Daniela Perazzo Domm
Stranger Things, Secret Cinema and the Transmateriality of Touch
Annouchka C. Bayley
Diffraction and ‘In-Visible Light’ : A case study of vertical dance
Rosemary (Rosa) Cisneros, Kate Lawrence
Dancing Diffraction : Many bodies make light work in Sasha Milavic Davies and Lucy Railton’s everything that rises must dance (2018)
Jess McCormack
Diffracting the Politicized Spectale : Queering censorship in the Aichi Triennale
Kyoko Iwaki
Diffractive Co-conspiracy in Queer, Crip Live Art Production
Beck Tadman
Diffracting Virtual Realities : Towards an A-effected VR
Eleanor Dare
The Diffracting Light in Contemporary Theatre
Amy Chan
Diffractive Dramaturgy : A performance practice for complicated times
Jon Lee
Entangled Speech : Speaking through oral microbes
Klaus Spiess, Maximilian Hauptmann, Lucie Strecker
Performing Porosity : Is there some method?
JJ Chan
Cutting together-apart (une greffe)
Teoma J. Naccarato, John MacCallum
Web-Dance’s Era of Ecstasy [review]
Douglas Eacho
Productive Ruptures [review]
Diana Damian Martin
Productive Disorientation Towards a More-than-Human Attunement [review]
Sarah Lucie
Diffracting Cybernetic-Existentialism [review]
Taylor C. Black
