This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investigates a different aspect of citizenship, such as identity and belonging, rights and responsibilities, bodies and materials, agencies and spaces, and limitations and interventions. It rewrites and rethinks the many-layered concept of citizenship by emphasising the performative tensions produced by various uses, occupations, interpretations and framings.

Provides an overview and insight into current investigations on the aesthetics and politics of performing citizenship Ranges across a variety of disciplines including political philosophy and theory, urban studies, ethnography, migration studies and theatre and performance studies

Autorentext
Paula Hildebrandt works as a freelance filmmaker, photographer and writer in Berlin, Germany.
Kerstin Evert founded the choreographic centre K3 Tanzplan Hamburg in 2006, and has been its artistic director since then.

Sibylle Peters is a researcher, a performance artist, and the founder and director of the Forschungstheater at the FUNDUS THEATER in Hamburg, Germany.
Mirjam Schaub is Professor of Philosophy at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle, Germany.
Kathrin Wildner is Professor in the Department of Metropolitan Culture at HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany, and Visiting Professor at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
Gesa Ziemer is Professor for Cultural Theory and Practices and Vice President in the Research Department at the HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany.

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Paula Hildebrandt and Sibylle Peters.- 2. Yet Another Effort, Citizens, if you Want to Learn How to React!; Kai van Eikels.- 3. [An] Elephant in the room. Notes on the 'Welcome City' Hamburg; Paula Hildebrandt.- 4. Doing Rights with Things: the Art of Becoming Citizens; Engin Isin.- 5. Performing Citizenship - Gathering (in the) Movement; Liz Rech.- 6. On Bodies and the Need to Appropriate Them; Antje Velsinger.- 7. Silence, Motifs and Echoes Acts of Listening in Postcolonial Hamburg; Katharina Kellermann.- 8. Claims for the Future: Indigenous Rights, Housing Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights; Elke Krasny.- 9. Spaces of Citizenship; Sergio Tamayo.- 10. Urban Citizenship Spaces for Enacting Rights; Kathrin Wildner.- 11. A Space of Performing Citizenship the Gängeviertel in Hamburg; Michael Ziehl.- 12. Performance as Delegation: Citizenship in 'Lloyd's Assemblage'; Moritz Frischkorn.- 13. (Re)Labelling: Mimicry, Between Identification and Subjectivation; Thari Jungen.- 14. PARALOGISTICS. On People, Things and Oceans; geheimagentur and Sibylle Peters.- 15. Phyto-Performance and the Lost Gardens of Riga; Alan Read.- 16. Of Mice and Masks: How performing citizenship worked for a thousand years in the Venetian Republic and why the Age of Enlightenment brought it to an abrupt end; Mirjam Schaub.- 17. Perform, Citizen!: On the Resource of Visibility in Performative Practice, between Invitation and Imperative; Maike Gunsilius.- 18. Practices of Politicizing Listening (to Migration): 'The point of language will no longer only be about communication, but also about pleasure and politics'; Nanna Heidenreich.- 19. Childish Citizenship; Darren O'Donnell.- 20. I do. From Instruction to Agency: Designing of Vocational Orientation throughArtistic Practice; Constanze Schmidt.