Performance, Politics and Activism

Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power.

The essays in Performance, Politics and Activism offer myriad alternatives for encountering and analyzing radical performances that operate in resistance to inherited representational strategies and repressive political structures. Performance Studies scholars as well as theatre researchers will find many points of entry in this eclectic, expansive, and nuanced collection. (Christine Woodworth, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 4 (2), November, 2016)

Autorentext
Moradewun Adejunmobi Patrick Anderson Marcela A. Fuentes (Marsha Gall) Lynette Hunter Shannon Jackson Susan Kelly Suk-Young Kim Peter Lichtenfels Stephen Morton Jane Plastow Jon D. Rossini John Rouse Frank B. Wilderson III

Inhalt
Introduction; Lynette Hunter PART I: EXPANDING THE POLITICAL WITH PERFORMANCE 1. Performance and Language Diversity in a Globalizing World; Moradewun Adejunmobi 2. Zooming In and Out: Tactical Media Performance in Transnational Contexts; Marcela Fuentes 3. The Role of Theatre in the Breaking and Making of Two African Nations: Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1916-2011; Jane Plastow 4. For the Eyes of the Dear Father: Staging National Unity in the North Korean Arirang Festival; Suk-Young Kim 5. The Emaciated Spectator and the Witness of the Powerless; Alan Read PART II: DISTURBING THE POLITICAL WITH PERFORMANCE 6. 'Asking, We Walk'; Susan Kelly 7. Colour Blind: Seeing Difference, Performing Sightlessness; Patrick Anderson 8. Constellation: Engaging with Radical Devised Dance Theatre Keith Hennessy's Sol Niger; Lynette Hunter 9. Glocalqueer Pink Activism; Eng-Beng Lim 10. The Palestinian State of Emergency and the Art Practice of Emily Jacir; Stephen Morton PART III: CRITIQUING THE POLITICAL WITHPERFORMANCE 11. Raw Life and the Ruse of Empathy; Frank Wilderson III 12. Siting Geography: Octavio Solis and the Circulation of Performance; Jon Rossini 13. Peter Sellars's Changing Conceptions of the Audience in Productions of Three Greek Plays; Peter Lichtenfels 14. Kleenex Citizens and the Performance of Undisposability; Shannon Jackson