Unstable Grounds: Reconfigurations of Performance and Politics
(2021) In Critical Stages - The IATC journal- Abstract
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Unstable Grounds: Reconfigurations of Performance and Politics
Special Issue, June 2021
Gigi Argyropoulou and Stefanie Sachsenmaier
This issue explores operations of performance during unstable conditions marked by socio-political, environmental, economic and further challenges. It is particularly interested in histories, reconfigurations and mutations of performance practice as it seeks to respond and ‘stay with the trouble’ (Haraway, 2016) of the present. Thinking through and beyond the political and ‘social turn’ (Jackson, 2011; Bishop, 2006; Kester, 2011) of recent years, this issue examines instances that rethink the relationship between performance and politics, giving rise to performative... (More) - Critical Stages
Unstable Grounds: Reconfigurations of Performance and Politics
Special Issue, June 2021
Gigi Argyropoulou and Stefanie Sachsenmaier
This issue explores operations of performance during unstable conditions marked by socio-political, environmental, economic and further challenges. It is particularly interested in histories, reconfigurations and mutations of performance practice as it seeks to respond and ‘stay with the trouble’ (Haraway, 2016) of the present. Thinking through and beyond the political and ‘social turn’ (Jackson, 2011; Bishop, 2006; Kester, 2011) of recent years, this issue examines instances that rethink the relationship between performance and politics, giving rise to performative reconfigurations that challenge sedimented practices. Focusing on specific examples of performance practice in view of its emerging forms, aesthetics, processes of making, methods and pedagogies, the issue aims to trace how performance might critically question social imaginaries and offer structures of being and living otherwise.
In the face of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the wider performance sector has effectively been rendered inoperable. The current convergence of complex issues in the sector and beyond, triggered by the pandemic as well as the Black Lives Matter movement, in conjunction with the environmental crisis, calls for a radical undoing and reorganising of the political, the social, the cultural and the existential. In connection to current as well as related historical conditions, this issue addresses the following questions: How might cultural workers embrace conditions of instability and engage in processes of ‘shared brokenness’ (Harney and Moten, 2018)? In what ways might performance contribute to a shaking up of the ‘terrain of the sensible’ (Rancière, 2007)? What methods and tools are developed through performance-making that might function as models of ‘affirmative praxis’ (Braidotti, 2016)? How does performance processes participate in the building of an ‘emergent strategy’ (brown, 2017)?
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