Disability, public space performance and spectatorship : unconscious performers /

Why would disabled people want to re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the everyday encounters in public spaces and places that cast them as ugly, strange, stare-worthy? In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hadley, Bree (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Temas:
People with disabilities and the performing arts.
Artists with disabilities.
Sociology.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Theater.
Sociology
Social Justice
Human Rights
Personnes handicapées et arts du spectacle.
Artistes handicapés.
Sociologie.
Justice sociale.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Théâtre.
sociology.
theater (discipline)
Art & design styles: from c 1960.
Performance art.
Disability: social aspects.
ART > Subjects & Themes > General.
Artists with disabilities
People with disabilities and the performing arts
History of art > Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999.
Performance art > Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999.
Disability: social aspects > Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999.
Art and Design.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Why would disabled people want to re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the everyday encounters in public spaces and places that cast them as ugly, strange, stare-worthy? In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Australasia who do exactly this. Operating in a live or performance art paradigm, artists like James Cunningham (Australia), Noemi Lakmaier (UK/Austria), Alison Jones (UK), Aaron Williamson (UK), Katherine Araniello (UK), Bill Shannon (US), Back to Back Theatre (Australia), Rita Marcalo (UK), Liz Crow (UK) and Mat Fraser (UK) all use installation and public space performance practices to restage their disabled identities in risky, guerrilla-style works that remind passers-by of their own complicity in the daily social drama of disability. In doing so, they draw spectators' attention to their own role in constructing Western concepts of disability. This book investigates the way each of us can become unconscious performers in a daily social drama that positions people with disabilities as figures of tragedy, stigma or pity, and the aesthetics, politics and ethics of performance practices that intervene very directly in this drama. It constructs a framework for understanding the way spectators are positioned in these practices, and how they contribute to public sphere debates about disability today.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:BibliographyIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781137396082
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