Performance Research Volume 23 Issue 7
On Drifting
Issue editors: Carl Lavery, Marielle Pelissero, David Pinder
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2018) 23:7
‘On Drifting’ looks to return to and rethink the aesthetic and political implications of la dérive for theatre and performance studies and beyond. Originally posited as a technique by the Situationist International (SI) for overcoming the alienation imposed by the ‘society of the spectacle’, drifting today has a very different significance and application(s). In this issue, drifting is no longer simply equated with contemporary walking practices, although these are in no way ignored, especially in terms of gender, sexuality, immigration and able-bodiedness. Rather, it has been expanded to exist as an aesthetico-political category in its own right -- something, then, that is found in theatre, writing, reading, drawing, cinema and indeed language itself. Equally, drifting is no longer simply associated with humans -- now, it is configured as something non-human, an activity that animals, rocks and the earth itself are all engaged with permanently. In this expansion of the field, the ultimate aim behind the issue is to stimulate a new dialogue between theatre and performance studies and the SI, to see what happens when the drift is contextualized within the ‘control societies’ of the Anthropocene.
Rethinking the Dérive : Drifting and theatricality in theatre and performance studies
Carl Lavery
pp. 1 - 15
Drift Map World
Julia-Kristina Bauer
pp. 16 - 17
Transforming Cities : On the passage of Situationist dérive
David Pinder
pp. 18 - 28
Road Drift
Nicolas Whybrow
pp. 29 - 35
Drawing, Adrift : Bengaluru – Mumbai – St Ives
Cathy Turner
pp. 36 - 44
Where to build walls that protect us
Stephen Hodge
pp. 45 - 47
Walking Library for a Wild City
Deirdre (Dee) Heddon, Misha Myers
pp. 48 - 49
Radiant Futures
Laura Grace Ford
pp. 50 - 53
New York Drifters : Tehching Hsieh and David Wojnarowicz
Jack Parlett
pp. 54 - 62
Gender Drift : Testo Junkie, queer performativity and molecular becoming
Stephen Greer
pp. 63 - 71
To Drift, to Wave, to Waive
Marielle Pelissero
pp. 72 - 73
Drifting and Cruising
Glyn Davis
pp. 74 - 80
Drifting with Direction : Going astray in Jean Genet
Joanne Brueton
pp. 81 - 88
Queer Spiritual Drifting : Not at home in The Beguinage
Petra Kuppers
pp. 89 - 94
Drifting across the Border : On the radical potential of undocumented im/migrant activism in the US
Ana Milena Ribero
pp. 95 - 102
Invitation to Drift
Amy Sharrocks
pp. 103 - 104
Indexing the Drift
Bob Hardy
pp. 105 - 108
From Street to Screen : Debord’s drifting cinema
David Archibald, Carl Lavery
pp. 109 - 119
Louphole : Drifting with wolves
Simon Whitehead
pp. 120 - 121
Field Guides
Mike Pearson
pp. 122 - 126
Erratic Drift : notes towards human-geologicaldrifting
Minty Donald, Nick Millar
pp. 127 - 129
The Perturbations of Drift in a Stratified World
Deborah Dixon
pp. 130 - 135
Drift as a Planetary Phenomenon
Bronislaw Szerszynski
pp. 136 - 144
Notes on Contributors
pp. 145 - 146
