Performance Research Volume 29 Issue 2

This issue investigates the ways in which the performing arts construct alternative – to capitalism – social imaginaries. Through the critical analyses of a series of international authors, as well as through distinct artistic case studies, performance here is approached as a tool for engaging with or overcoming the current crisis of social imagination. By focusing on practices based on spending time together, mutual learning and respect, positive change, sustainability and endless curiosity, performance manages to deal with political complexities, challenge established norms and open space for the emergence of alternative social configurations. Such connective acts matter especially in post-pandemic times, for the qualities, complexities or urgencies they might create.

 

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1 Editorial: What makes us want to get up and play this game?

FALK HÜBNER AND DANAE THEODORIDOU

 

9 Body as a Proletarian: Performing the social imaginary

ANA VUJANOVIĆ

 

16 Negation as Condition of Possibility for Imagining Anew

PAULINA AROCH-FUGELLIE AND MICHAELLE

VILLASEÑOR

 

21 Mourning the Factory: Artistic and social imaginaries in the

neoliberal city

ILINCA TODORUȚ

 

28 Art Institutions under the Spell of Exhaustion: Reimagining

instituent practices

MARTA KEIL AND ALEXANDER ROBERTS

 

35 The Value of Provocation in the Social Imaginaries of

Participatory Art

BOJANA MATEJIĆ

 

40 Social Imaginaries in Nigeria during the Anti-Police Brutality

#EndSARS Movement

BABATUNDE ALLEN BAKARE

 

46 Embodying Utopia: THERE WILL BE LIGHT: A performance

on basic income, futurity and social imaginaries

MADISON JOLLIFFE AND MIGUEL A. MELGARES

 

51 Mihran Tomasyan's Performative Social Imagination: You're

Not a Fish After All

ÖZGE DERMAN

 

58 Until Chairs Fly: Imagining the impossible in the work of

Eleonora Fabião

ANA PAIS

 

66 Participatory Futuring: Critical utopian and dystopian

thinking in Billennium by Uninvited Guests and Duncan

Speakman

PAUL CLARKE

 

74 Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Social Imaginary:

Posthuman feminist playwriting of the emerging

'species theatre'

DEENA SHAZLY ELSHAZLY

 

82 How We Wish to Work: An exchange on participation,

connectivity and care

PHILIPPINE HOEGEN AND VEERLE SPRONCK

 

88 The In-between Relation of Performers as Foundational

Principle for Constructing Alternative Social Imaginaries

ELIEN HANSELAER

 

93 Imagining Togetherness Amid Dislocation: Three scenes

from Australian music making

SAMUEL CURKPATRICK WITH LAURA CASE AND ANTHEA

SKINNER

 

102 Writing and/as Performing Solidarity from a Third World

Queer Feminist Artist

TRUNG M. NGUYEN

 

106 WALK THIS WAY: The role of the artist from creative

placemaking to communitas

ROB EAGLE

 

112 With Whom Can You Imagine Sharing This

World’s Sidewalk?

BOJANA CVEJIĆ

 

118 What Now? Some closing questions as a connecting and coimagining spell

FALK HÜBNER AND DANAE THEODORIDOU

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 REVIEWS

 

122 Just One Big Green Ball

CAMILA GONZÁLEZ ORTIZ

 

123 Imagine a Review

KFIR LAPID-MASHALL

 

124 The Politics of Performance and Performance Scholarship

EMILY BEAUSOLEIL

 

126 A Star isn’t Born, judy’s Made!

MICHAEL HUNTER

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128 Notes on Contributors