Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship [electronic resource] : Unconscious Performers /
Hadley, B.author.
In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Disability, Performance and the Public Sphere; Seeing, imaging and imagining the other; Disability, performance and performative interventions in public space; Protesters, pranksters or pity seekers? - the motivations and conundrums of interventionalist performance; Studying the performativity of spectatorship; Book structure; 1 Weebles, Mirages and Living Mirrors: The Ethics of Embarrassed Laughter; Bodies in becoming - Igneous's Mirage; Bodies ambiguous - Noemi Lakmaier's Exercise in Losing Control
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Social justice.
Performing Arts.
Sociology, general.
Cultural Studies.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.