Current issue: Volume 29 Issue 7

In an age of durational and perpetual crises, where corpses – human and more-than-human – pile around us, the boundaries are thin between ghosts and those they might be haunting. This issue of Performance Research revisits ghosts from the perspective of capitalist ruins, corpses of extinct animals and poisoned habitats, phantom narratives, digital selves and expiring planets. Rather than focusing on Derridean hauntology and the historical discourses of vanishing, we revisit ghosts and ghosting from the expanded scope of more-than-human performance and amid the troubled age of the Anthropocene to consider who or what is haunting, especially by going beyond the ghosts of ‘grievable’ humans.

 

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1 On Ghosts Editorial: Ghost performance and necroambience

LUCA DOMENICO ARTUSO, FELIPE CERVERA, KYOKO IWAKI, EERO LAINE, THERESA SPIELMANN AND KRISTOF VAN BAARLE

 

12 Haunting Time: Irradiation, aurality, performance and ghosts

LOUISE K. WILSON

 

20 The Uncanny Sounds in Kamisato Yudai’s Immigrant Ghost Stories

BERI JURAIC

 

31 Planting Ghosts in a Time Machine [Artist pages]

LAWRENCE HARVEY, ALEX KELLY AND DAVID PLEDGER

 

35 Endless Ends: From sacred music to phantom sounds on the brink of a new dark age

CHIARA PAGANO

 

45 What Colour Is a Ghost?

ALVIN ENG HUI LIM

 

56 Ghost of Justice: Bhuta-preta as the figures of performative

justice in India and South Asia

BRAHMA PRAKASH

 

67 Radio-Active Ghosts: The spectral dramaturgy of Marie Clements’ Burning Vision

KELLY RICHMOND

 

75 Haunting Spectres and Spectating Ghosts: A conversation about Necropolis

LIVIA ANDREA PIAZZA AND ARKADI ZAIDES

 

82 Reveliones Fugitivas: Unveiling Indigenous, Afro-Indigenous and Black rebellions through art in Santo Domingo's colonial city

GINA GOICO

 

89 Surfacing Urban Ghosts: Buried cities and electromagnetic imaginations

TED HIEBERT AND JIN-KYU JUNG WITH NOOR ALNAAZ ISLAM

 

100 Where Do Animals Go When They Disappear? The animal spectre as a more-than-human epistemology in performance

TERESA MASINI

 

110 Conjuring the Ghosts: The haunting afterlives of drugrelated deaths

SEAN MULCAHY AND KATE SEEAR

 

119 The Reverse Engineering of an Exorcism

ANNOUCHKA BAYLEY

 

130 Ghostwriting the Stage: The eerie authorship of AI playmaking

EDDIE HANCHEN FENG

 

138 Josephine [Artist pages]

MICHELLE HANNAH

 

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REVIEWS

142 Ghosts of Queer Past, Present and Future

SEAN F. EDGECOMB

 

143 Gardens Speak: We are amazingly near in Tania El Khoury’s live art

MARJAN MOOSAVI

 

145 Breaking Western Binaries through Mediumship in Acting and Devising Performance

ERIC MAYER-GARCIA

 

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147 Notes on Contributors