Performance Research Volume 30 Issue 1

This issue contends that state violence is not an aberration or outlier but is intrinsic to the state's nature. Contributions use decolonial, feminist, queer and Marxist perspectives to examine the role of 'performance', broadly conceived, in relation to law enforcement, criminal justice, the military, surveillance, censorship, borders, racialisation, gender policing, and welfare. 'On State Violence' reconsiders the discipline's approach to state violence and asks how the field might act, critically and creatively, amid its enduring presence in an age of globally resurgent authoritarianism.

 

READ THE EDITORIAL AND ABSTRACTS ONLINE

 

1 On State Violence: Editorial

LUCY FREEDMAN, MICAELA G. SIGNORELLI, CHARLOTTE

YOUNG AND MARTIN YOUNG

 

7 Ambiguity as Resistance: Tactical performance and embodied research in Shanghai’s 2023 Halloween Gathering

AN-RU CHU AND HANXIAO TENGHE

 

21 State Funding and/as Violence: Lessons on resistance from the Third Theatre Movement in India

SANDIP DEBNATH

 

33 Re-personalizing the Impersonal: Theorizing state violence through Lucy Beynon and Lisa Jay Jeschke's Tory Trilogy

LUCY FREEDMAN

 

47 Autogestic Performance: The tactical dramaturgy of reoccupation

JEFF GAGNON

 

59 E tū: Art and activism as resistance to colonial state violence in Aotearoa

MARK HARVEY

 

70 Making Sense of the Senseless [Artist pages]

XECE KHADIJA BAKER AND RACHEL GORMAN

 

74 Crimes Against the Breath: Black persistence and the politics of return

VANESSA DAMILOLA MACAULAY

 

85 ‘beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing…’: Abolitionist theatre practices with Donkeysaddle Projects

ASH MARINACCIO

 

94 Theatre of the Oppressors: Ethics, empathy and Forum Theatre in Israel Defense Forces

SEBASTIAN MYLLY

 

106 Armin Felmer’s Memorial Paseo Libertad Por Lxs Caídos: How psychophysical performance responds to state violence

MICAELA G. SIGNORELLI

 

116 Controlling Space: The performance of policing and the spatial incursions of undercover surveillance practices

EMILIA WEBER

 

127 Seeing Like a Cop: ear for eye and the spectatorial politics of policing

MARTIN YOUNG

 

................................................................................................

REVIEWS

140 On Conflicted Activist Performance

KFIR LAPID-MASHALL

 

141 Active Duty: Acts of solidarity and resistance

HEATHER S. NATHANS

 

143 Performative Aspects of Russian Nationalism in the Twentyfirst Century

ALEXANDRA SMITH

 

................................................................................................

145 Notes on Contributors