Performance Research Volume 28 Issue 2

As the extractive economies of sharing and experience continue to encroach upon and profit from every available form of sociality, what are the prospects for the long-cherished modalities of performance, such as encounter, gathering, congregation and assembly? Post-pandemic, what kinds of affects and effects might be generated by coming together otherwise – or simply to become intimate in unfamiliar ways? Taking meeting as a blurry genre that encompasses a host of ways in which collectivity for humans and the more-than-human are negotiated, this issue brings together reflections on a set of singular places, events, spaces and actions that share a commitment to reparative and regenerative forms of contact. 

 

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1 Editorial: On Meeting

SIMON BAYLY AND JOHANNA LINSLEY

 

4 More than a Meeting: Performing the workshop in the art

institution

BEN CRANFIELD AND MARIANNE MULVEY

 

14 The First Thing We Make is the Conditions of our Meeting:

A gathering on gathering [Artist pages]

THERON SCHMIDT WITH DIANA DAMIAN MARTIN, MICK

DOUGLAS, REZA MIRABI, ELLEN O’BRIEN, RAJNI SHAH,

VAL SMITH, LIZZIE THOMSON AND JULIE VULCAN

 

26 The Minutes of the Hildegard von Bingen Society for

Gardening Companions: Tools in the Garden Shed

[Artist pages]

SOPHIE SEITA AND NAOMI WOO

 

29 Freedom is a Performance Hangout* (*Click on this fake

sweat distraction technique to release infinite scroll)

OWEN G. PARRY

 

39 Ibu in Post-authoritarian Agonism: Protest and mother

figures in contemporary Indonesia

JONED SURYATMOKO

 

49 WE/Time/Trembling/Softly: Chorus for ten voices out of 173

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ANNE BRANNYS AND EDITH KOLLATH

 

62 first draft·ings: To recover the intimacy of transmission

through slow gatherings

SUMEDHA BHATTACHARYYA, SONAM CHATURVEDI,

PRIYANK GOTHWAL AND PRIYESH GOTHWAL

 

70 Contracts as Protocols of Governmentality in Performance

Art

DESPINA ZACHAROPOULOU

 

80 Being and Pub: Phenomenology of pub meeting as

performance

SAM ČERMÁK

 

88 wind meeting: meeting Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s winds

AMAARA RAHEEM

 

94 Meet – An intimate performative encounter format

CHRISTINE GAIGG

 

101 rendezvous: no longer not yet i

MARK ROBSON [Artist pages]

 

106 The Grand Indo Meeting and the Grand Indo Future

JEFFREY FLYNN GAN

 

110 Meeting at Chisenhale Dance Space in the 1980s

RACHAEL DAVIES

 

116 Being on Time

SOUNDCAMP: DAWN SCARFE AND GRANT

SMITH

 

121 WORK! From Home: Queer nightlife on Zoom

MADISON MOORE

 

125 Practising Freedom: Combatting modern slavery in

heterotopic spaces

STEPHEN COLLINS AND NII KWATERLAI QUARTEY

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REVIEWS

130 Playing (with) the Machine I Already Am

IOANA B. JUCAN

 

131 Book as Meeting Place: Dance, drama and cross-culture

reconciliation across the life of physical theatre company

Marrugeku

AMANDA CARD

 

132 Histories, Stories and Encounters with Butō’s Mythopoesis

KATJA CENTONZE

 

134 Shadows Beneath These Steps

ANNA JAYNE KIMMEL

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136 Notes on Contributors