Performance, Politics and Activism [electronic resource] /
Lichtenfels, P.editor.
Rouse, J.editor.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Lynette Hunter -- Expanding the Political with Performance. Performance and Language Diversity in a Globalizing World / Moradewun Adejunmobi -- Zooming In and Out: Tactical Media Performance in Transnational Contexts / Marcela Fuentes -- The Role of Theatre in the Breaking and Making of Two African Nations: Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1916-2011 / Jane Plastow -- For the Eyes of the Dear Father: Staging National Unity in the North Korean Arirang Festival / Suk-Young Kim -- The Emaciated Spectator and the Witness of the Powerless / Alan Read -- Disturbing the Political with Performance. "Asking, We Walk" / Susan Kelly -- Colour Blind: Seeing Difference, Performing Sightlessness / Patrick Anderson -- Constellation: Engaging with Radical Devised Dance Theatre. Keith Hennessy's Sol Niger / Lynette Hunter -- Glocalqueer Pink Activism / Eng-Beng Lim -- The Palestinian State of Emergency and the Art Practice of Emily Jacir / Stephen Morton -- Critiquing the Political with Performance. Raw Life and the Ruse of Empathy / Frank Wilderson III -- Siting Geography: Octavio Solis and the Circulation of Performance / Jon Rossini -- Peter Sellars' Changing Conceptions of the Audience in Productions of Three Greek Plays / Peter Lichtenfels -- Kleenex Citizens and the Performance of Undisposability /  Shannon Jackson.
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.
Performing arts.
Arts.
Theater.
Theater—History.
Performing Arts.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Theatre History.