An interdisciplinary working group using the lens of performance to analyse a range of embodied behaviours in everyday life.
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Swati Arora deposited A manifesto to decentre theatre and performance studies in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day agoWith the climate of Brexit, xenophobia and white supremacy on the rise, health and safety of Black and Global Majority people under threat during the spread of Covid in the UK and elsewhere, a discussion of colonialism, migration, borders, and equality – in the classrooms and outside – is more pertinent than ever. Situating the ongoing Dec…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Fugitive aesthetics: performing refusal in four acts in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year agoThis chapter discusses the aesthetic of refusal as it is articulated in contemporary performances in India and South Africa while debates around the #MeToo movement continue to agitate and exhaust womxn around the globe. In the aftermath of the Indian Supreme Court acquitting the Chief Justice of India of all sexual harassment charges in May 2019,…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited The right to be lazy and to enjoy it too. On the art of refusing work and the labour of refusing art. in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year agoOn the art of refusing work and the labour of refusing art.
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Stefano Verri deposited QUELLO CHE DOVEVA ACCADERE in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoTesto della mostra personale (a più voci), dell’artista Giovanni Gaggia, tenutasi a partire dal 27 dicembre 2020 presso il Museo Statale Tattile Omero di Ancona in cui è stato osteso uno splendido arazzo poi chiuso in tubo di metallo. La mostra e la conseguente performance hanno dato vita ad un archivio permanente ed in continua evoluzione che r…[Read more]
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Martins Uze E. Tugbokorowei deposited The Theatre and Sustainable Human Development: Fumes of Fuel and Boundless Love as Paradigms in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThe performing Arts encompass a wide range of disciplines which are invariably synonymous with creativity, thus, creativity is the hallmark of performance. For the sake of clarity, Performing Arts comprise Theatre Arts, Music, Dance and Choreography and the electronic media of Radio, Television and film commonly referred
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Martins Uze E. Tugbokorowei deposited New Aesthetic Dimensions in African Drama and Theatre: A Festschrift in Honour of Prof Sam Ukala in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoNew Aesthetics in African Drama and Theatre … is a unique work. It is a valedictory gift to a man who has paid his academic dues, and also a justification of these dues that he has paid. The contributions in the book come from both seasoned eggheads and academic neophytes. The book interrogates the oeuvre of Sam Ukala’s works. it also updates…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Verso una teoria delle pratiche prefigurative in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoVerso una teoria delle pratiche prefigurative – traduzione dall’inglese.
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Valeria Graziano deposited When Care Needs Piracy: The Case for Disobedience in Struggles Against Imperial Property Regimes in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoWhy to care means to disobey private property
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Armin Selbitschka deposited Sacrifice vs. Sustenance: Food as a Burial Good in Late Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Chinese Tombs and Its Relation [to] Funerary Rites in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoOne of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walk in India and South Africa: notes towards a decolonial and transnational feminist politics in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThe essay discusses Maya Rao’s Walk and The Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa to explore the languages of transnational and embodied feminist politics that these performances conjure. The two performances are instances of artistic responses to sexualized violence in India and South Africa as they engage with the politics of walking in the…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walking at Midnight: Women and Danger on Delhi’s Streets in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoI discuss the walking practice of Delhi-based artist Mallika Taneja in the context of its engagement with, and intervention in, the contemporary conversations on sexualised violence, gender, space and mobility in India. Taneja’s work is part of a variety of feminist activism to take place in India since the horrific gang rape of Jyoti Singh in D…[Read more]
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Mariusz Kozak deposited Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Violin Phase and the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work? in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoReich’s Violin Phase has been mired in questions of time since its inception. In this article I present a theory of time in process music based on the notion of kinesthetic knowledge, and the synthesis of musical temporality through the generative (chronopoietic) and transformational (chronopraxial) acts of the body. I illustrate this theory w…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Can We Buy Virtue? Implications from State University Funding On Musical Instrument Performance Teacher Mandate in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoRecent world developments have put a strain on the humanities in general, and higher education music performance study degree-programmes in particular. In an educational system currently promoting consumer product relationships where the music performance teacher is very much accountable for the students’ development into professional musicians a…[Read more]
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Y Merron deposited Re-performing Design: using dramaturgy to uncover graphic designers’ perceptions of stakeholders in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoGraphic design, as a specific research discipline, has been largely underrepresented in academia, with the literature suggesting this is partially due to difficulties in researching its professional practitioners. Acknowledging such hurdles, this article discusses an experimental study that used dramaturgy as a defamiliarising method for…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited Música, humor y crítica social en el performance Buena Risa Social Club (León de Los Aldama, 2018) de Alejandro García Villalón “Virulo” in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoBuena Risa Social Club es un performance humorístico-musical del cantautor cubano-mexicano Alejandro García Villalón “Virulo”, quién lo presentó en el Café Antropía (León de Los Aldama, Guanajuato, México) el 30 de noviembre de 2018. Al tener en cuenta los pocos estudios realizados sobre sus composiciones performativas, para la presente com…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited Algunas consideraciones analíticas sobre el performance musical in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoCon el presente trabajo se busca allanar la zanja que existe entre los abordajes tradicionales del discurso musical y los estudios de performance. Para la realización de investigaciones artísticas sobre performances musicales se debe tener en cuenta dicha expresión como subjetividad cambiante a lo largo de su devenir histórico, construido en las…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited El Génesis Según Virulo (2001) de Alejandro García Villalón como performance humorístico de intertextualidad literaria-musical in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoLa pluralidad discursiva manifiesta en la música cubana se ha encontrado enmarcada en una realidad estético-musical cambiante, causada por una postmodernidad social cada vez más abierta a la globalización de las expresiones culturales de los pueblos. Es dentro de esta dinámica creativa que se encontraron inmersos los performances musicales del…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Recreation at stake in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoExtending Audre Lorde’s intuition around the polysemy of the term recreation, I put forward this concept as an organizational principle. Via the framework of recreation, I want to think about some of the main political stakes of the forms used by collectivities able to act politically in the present. I transpose the double binding that Lorde a…[Read more]
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Edwin Culp deposited Escuchar lo justo in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoRepresentémonos otra situación más —una más, otra, de ningún modo la primera, pues aunque presentada al comienzo, quien presenta escribe después, una situación anterior, quizás, para quien lee y posterior de quien escribe; posterior, además, a la lectura de quien presenta y, sin embargo, en el presente del que lee; situada al comienzo de lo que…[Read more]
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Joseph Dunne-Howrie deposited Crisis Acting in The Destroyed Room in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe internet immerses us in waves of traumatic information, leaving us desperately crawling through media wreckage to make sense of the world. We are left alienated from a reality that never settles into a cohesive narrative. Media wreckage in my argumentation denotes the fragmentation of reality occasioned by the digital acting as the dominant…[Read more]
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