Description
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
