Performing Publics continues the creative partnership between PR and PSi and arises from and responds to the 16th PSi conference which was held in Toronto in June 2010. Performing Publics explores how the word \u201cpublic\u201d has reverberated through performance studies by taking up several genealogies and meanings of the term. The contributors to this collection examine the enactment of \u201cpublic\u201d both as a form of social activism \u2013 a means rehearsing, querying, and producing alternative forms of local and global citizenship \u2013 and also as a form of social legitimation and exclusion. They remind us that the idea of \u201cpublic\u201d is inseparable from the body and argue for the centrality of affect in moving beyond public\/private binaries and in articulating political identities.<\/p>\n
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Editorial: Performing Publics
\nLaura Levin, Marlis Schweitzer
\npp. 1 – 6
\n[artist\u2019s pages] A proposal for \u2018the worst public artwork\u2019 contest
\nGuillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a
\npp. 7
\nWorking Publics
\nShannon Jackson
\npp. 8 – 13
\n[artists\u2019 pages] Lesbian National Parks & Services
\nShawna Dempsey, Lorri Millan
\npp. 14 – 15
\nRethinking the Public Sphere for a Global Age
\nJanelle Reinelt
\npp. 16 – 27
\n\u2018Identity Correction\u2019: The Yes Men and acts of discursive \u2018leverage\u2019
\nLouise Owen
\npp. 28 – 35
\n[artist\u2019s pages] A proposal for \u2018the worst public artwork\u2019 contest
\nGuillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a
\npp. 36
\nEmbarrassing Time, Performing Disunity: Rugby, the haka, and Aotearoa-New Zealand in the United Kingdom
\nRyan Hartigan
\npp. 37 – 43
\nYou Talkin\u2019 to Me?: Eavesdropping on the Conversation at Te Matatini Maori Performing Arts Festival
\nSharon Mazer
\npp. 44 – 49
\nAging Provocateurs and Spect(er)acular Pub(l)ic Performances
\nErica Stevens Abbitt, Johanna Frank, Geraldine (Gerry) Harris
\npp. 50 – 56
\nPerforming the National Interest?: Mother Courage at the National Theatre in London and Ottawa
\nMegan Macdonald
\npp. 57 – 63
\n[artist\u2019s pages] A proposal for \u2018the worst public artwork\u2019 contest
\nGuillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a
\npp. 64
\nStreet Church and Service as Salutation: The public ecclesiology of the South of Market Episcopal churches
\nClaire Maria Chambers (Blackstock)
\npp. 65 – 73
\nMaking Mourning Show: Hamlet and affective public-making
\nKate Welch
\npp. 74 – 82
\nReviving Feeling: Performing Robert. F. Kennedy in Kentucky
\nLindsay B. Cummings
\npp. 83 – 90
\nPilgrimage as Utopian Performative for a Post-Colonial Counterpublic
\nJazmin Badong Llana
\npp. 91 – 96
\nUnwitting Performances of Transparency: Monitoring the travelling public, managing airport affect
\nRachel Hall
\npp. 97 – 104
\n\u2018Barack Me Tonight\u2019: Re-sounding politics via the Interweb
\nT. Nikki Cesare
\npp. 105 – 112
\nDemocracy and Neoliberalism in Art\u2019s Social Turn and Roger Hiorns\u2019s Seizure
\nJen Harvie
\npp. 113 – 122
\n[artist\u2019s pages] A proposal for \u2018the worst public artwork\u2019 contest
\nGuillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a
\npp. 123
\n(Dia)logics of Difference: Disability, performance and spectatorship in Liz Crow\u2019s Resistance on the Plinth
\nBree Hadley
\npp. 124 – 131
\nPublic Pie: Performing public space
\nSigrid Merx
\npp. 132 – 137
\nPolls and Publics: The role of cultural pluralism in the imagined Canadian city
\nKeren Zaiontz
\npp. 138 – 144
\nIf Ya Liked It, Then You Shoulda Made a Video: Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles, YouTube and the public sphere of images
\nKirsten Pullen
\npp. 145 – 153
\nYes, There Is a Joseph Wagenbach : History and the performativity of what might be true
\nCecilia Aldarondo
\npp. 154 – 162
\n[artists\u2019 pages] The Leona Drive Project : A Public Access + L.O.T. Project
\nJanine Marchessault, Michael J. Prokopow
\npp. 164 – 169
\nActs of Exposure and Erasure in Katsushige Nakahashi\u2019s Zero
\nJessica Nakamura
\npp. 170 – 174
\nThe Empty Stage : Matthew Buckingham\u2019s pursuit of Amos Fortune
\nJane Blocker
\npp. 175 – 181
\nOn \u2018Publics\u2019 : A feminist constellation of key words
\nJill Dolan
\npp. 182 – 185
\n[artist\u2019s pages] A proposal for \u2018the worst public artwork\u2019 contest
\nGuillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a
\npp. 186
\nNotes on Contributors
\npp. 187 – 189
\n[artist\u2019s pages] A proposal for \u2018the worst public artwork\u2019 contest
\nGuillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a
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