28.8 On Activation

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Issue editors: Eylül Fidan Akıncı and Christel Stalpaert
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2024) 28:8

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This thematic issue interrogates how art and performance can (re-)activate ‘beginnings’ without defaulting to the erasure of history. Behind each fresh start or spark of discovery, there is a long tradition of effort, search, craft and knowledge production. Activist movements build on repertoires of undoing and exiting the dominant imperialist, colonialist, capitalist, sexist, body-typical and neurotypical ideologies and practices. What does it take to activate a new beginning from within the extant decolonial or queer potentialities? How may new bonds between human and more-than-human actors emerge? How can artists collaborate with institutions to act on collective life but circumvent the limitations of authoritative bureaucracy? How does performance activate the past and the future in the present? What methods, epistemologies and aesthetics would be fit for this task?

 

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On Activation: Some preliminary notes on weaving

a thematic issue together

CHRISTEL STALPAERT

 

14 Remembering Differently: Activating legacies of violence in

the Southern US through soil

SHALON T. WEBBER-HEFFERNAN

 

24 Unpacking and Enveloping: Béatrice Balcou activating the

fragile, the intimate and the vulnerable

LEONIE PERSYN

 

34 Walking (to) Greenham, Again: Activating feminist heritage

ALEXANDRA KOKOLI

 

46 Performative Scores for More-Than-Human Swamp

Becomings

NINA VURDELJA

 

52 Recipes for (un)learning to (re)member: Ripples, responses,

responsibilities

THE (DE)COLLECTIVE

 

56 Activation in the Moment of Pausing or Slowing: Queer

potentiality in the timeframe of performance/making

JODIE ALLINSON

 

64 The Queer Archive as Promiscuous Ethics of Care:

(Re-)activating transcestor kinship structures in Travis

Alabanza’s Burgerz and Tranz Talkz

ELISABETH MASSANA

 

74 ‘I Have the Need to Never Arrive’: A dialogue with Cherish

Menzo

EYLÜL FIDAN AKINCI, ROBERTA DA SOLLER AND JONAS

RUTGEERTS

 

85 Limit(less): A choreographic score for human and robot

MATHIAS HAUAN ARBO AND KAROLINA BIESZCZADSTIE

 

89 Activations of the Threshold: Rhythms of radical alienness

in Aravindan’s Thampu

AMEET PARAMESWARAN

 

98 What Must Be Re-Imagined: Activating through crosstemporal

revisitations – Milo Rau’s General Assembly (2017,

2019 and 2024)

LILY MAEVE CLIMENHAGA AND KASIA WOJCIK

 

109 Breathing out of the University, and into many Schools:

Storying abolition as a way of activation

JOACHIM BEN YAKOUB

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REVIEWS

120 Beginning with Love

AKAE WRIGHT

 

121 Political Repertoires of Collective Assemblies

RASHI MISHRA

 

123 A Replica of a Replica: Memory, trauma and monumental

repair

STEPHEN GREER

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125 Notes on Contributors

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