This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers – Keith Hennessy, Ilya Noé, Caro Novella, and duskin drum – to suggest a tentative rhetoric of performativity generating political affect and permeating attempts at social justice that are often alterior to discourse.
Lynette Hunter has a background in rhetoric, philosophy and political theory. She has researched women’s history and feminism, the history of science and medicine, decolonialism and Canadian Studies, and, more recently, performance and practice. Writer, co-writer and co-editor of 30 books, her work is significantly informed by learning from daoist epistemology and indigenous ways of knowing.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction.- 2. The Sociocultural and the Sociosituated.- 3. The Alongside.- 4. Sustaining Sociosituated Performativity with Collaboration.- 5. Transition – Critical Reflections.- 6. Keith Hennessy’s Sol Niger, and Turbulence.- 7. Ilya Noé’s Deerwalk.- 8. Caro Novella’s parèntesi, and Resistencias Sonoras.- 9. duskin drum – Selections from performance artmaking.- 10. Completed Notes – Finding Critical Form.