Performing the Wound

Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming

Niki Tulk (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-64488-8 (ISBN)

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This book offers a matrixial, feminist-centered analysis of trauma and performance, through examining the work of three artists: Ann Hamilton, Renée Green, and Cecilia Vicuña.

Each artist engages in a multi-media, or “combination” performance practice; this includes the use of site, embodied performance, material elements, film, and writing. Each case study involves traumatic content, including the legacy of slavery, child sexual abuse and environmental degradation; each artist constructs an aesthetic milieu that invites rather than immerses—this allows an audience to have agency, as well as multiple pathways into their engagement with the art. The author Niki Tulk suggests that these works facilitate an audience-performance relationship based on the concept of ethical witnessing/wit(h)nessing, in which viewers are not positioned as voyeurs, nor made to risk re-traumatization by being forced to view traumatic events re-played on stage. This approach also allows agency to the art itself, in that an ethical space is created where the art is not objectified or looked at—but joined with. Foundational to this investigation are the writings of Bracha L. Ettinger, Jill Bennett and Diana Taylor—particularly Ettinger’s concepts of the matrixial, carriance and border-linking. These artists and scholars present a capacity to expand and articulate answers to questions regarding how to make performance that remains compelling and truthful to the trauma experience, but not re-traumatizing.

This study will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, art history, visual arts, feminist studies, theatre, film, performance art, postcolonialism, rhetoric and writing.

Dr. Niki Tulk is an interdisciplinary artist and Director of Acting and Performance Studies at Plymouth State University. Her poetry book, O, won the 2021 Driftwood Poetry Prize (Driftwood Press). Find out more at www.nikitulk.com.

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

Reframing Performance within Trauma Studies Literature

The Textured Language of Rupture: Multimedia Installations by Ann Hamilton

Dreaming In-Between: Landscape, Trauma and Meaning-Making in the Work of Renée Green

Weaving Lament: Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetry in Performance

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	27.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Zusatzinfo	12 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-64488-6 / 0367644886
ISBN-13	978-0-367-64488-8 / 9780367644888
Zustand	Neuware