Description
This issue investigates the ways in which the performing arts construct alternative – to capitalism – social imaginaries. Through the critical analyses of a series of international authors, as well as through distinct artistic case studies, performance here is approached as a tool for engaging with or overcoming the current crisis of social imagination. By focusing on practices based on spending time together, mutual learning and respect, positive change, sustainability and endless curiosity, performance manages to deal with political complexities, challenge established norms and open space for the emergence of alternative social configurations. Such connective acts matter especially in post-pandemic times, for the qualities, complexities or urgencies they might create.
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1 Editorial: What makes us want to get up and play this game?
FALK HÜBNER AND DANAE THEODORIDOU
9 Body as a Proletarian: Performing the social imaginary
ANA VUJANOVIĆ
16 Negation as Condition of Possibility for Imagining Anew
PAULINA AROCH-FUGELLIE AND MICHAELLE VILLASEÑOR
21 Mourning the Factory: Artistic and social imaginaries in the neoliberal city
ILINCA TODORUȚ
28 Art Institutions under the Spell of Exhaustion: Reimagining instituent practices
MARTA KEIL AND ALEXANDER ROBERTS
35 The Value of Provocation in the Social Imaginaries of Participatory Art
BOJANA MATEJIĆ
40 Social Imaginaries in Nigeria during the Anti-Police Brutality #EndSARS Movement
BABATUNDE ALLEN BAKARE
46 Embodying Utopia: THERE WILL BE LIGHT: A performance on basic income, futurity and social imaginaries
MADISON JOLLIFFE AND MIGUEL A. MELGARES
51 Mihran Tomasyan’s Performative Social Imagination: You’re Not a Fish After All
ÖZGE DERMAN
58 Until Chairs Fly: Imagining the impossible in the work of Eleonora Fabião
ANA PAIS
66 Participatory Futuring: Critical utopian and dystopian thinking in Billennium by Uninvited Guests and Duncan Speakman
PAUL CLARKE
74 Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Social Imaginary: Posthuman feminist playwriting of the emerging ‘species theatre’
DEENA SHAZLY ELSHAZLY
82 How We Wish to Work: An exchange on participation, connectivity and care
PHILIPPINE HOEGEN AND VEERLE SPRONCK
88 The In-between Relation of Performers as Foundational Principle for Constructing Alternative Social Imaginaries
ELIEN HANSELAER
93 Imagining Togetherness Amid Dislocation: Three scenes from Australian music making
SAMUEL CURKPATRICK WITH LAURA CASE AND ANTHEA SKINNER
102 Writing and/as Performing Solidarity from a Third World Queer Feminist Artist
TRUNG M. NGUYEN
106 WALK THIS WAY: The role of the artist from creative placemaking to communitas
ROB EAGLE
112 With Whom Can You Imagine Sharing This World’s Sidewalk?
BOJANA CVEJIĆ
118 What Now? Some closing questions as a connecting and coimagining
spell
FALK HÜBNER AND DANAE THEODORIDOU
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REVIEWS
122 Just One Big Green Ball
CAMILA GONZÁLEZ ORTIZ
123 Imagine a Review
KFIR LAPID-MASHALL
124 The Politics of Performance and Performance Scholarship
EMILY BEAUSOLEIL
126 A Star isn’t Born, judy’s Made!
MICHAEL HUNTER
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128 Notes on Contributors
