Disability, public space performance and spectatorship : unconscious performers /
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| Author / Creator: | Hadley, Bree. |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. |
| Description: | ix, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9984306 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Disability, Performance and the Public Sphere
- Seeing, imaging and imagining the other
- Disability, performance and performative interventions in public space
- Protesters, pranksters or pity seekers? - the motivations and conundrums of interventionalist performance
- Studying the performativity of spectatorship
- Book structure
- 1. Weebles, Mirages and Living Mirrors: The Ethics of Embarrassed Laughter
- Bodies in becoming - Igneous's Mirage
- Bodies ambiguous - Noemi Lakmaier's Exercise in Losing Control
- 'I can hear you looking at me' - Alison Jones's Portraits By Proxy
- Stepping into someone else's shoes?
- Interpreting spectators' self-performances
- 2. Drug Deals, Samaritans and Suicides: Bodies on the Brink of the Visible
- 'I want to be a full human being' - Back to Back Theatre's Small Metal Objects
- The weight of empathy - Bill Shannon's Regarding the Fall
- Guerrilla tactics - Aaron Williamson and Katherine Araniello in The Disabled Avant Garde's Assisted Passage
- Uncertain uncertainties
- 3. 'That you would post such a thing...': Staging Spectatorship Online
- 'She should work on that' - Rita Marcalo's Involuntary Dances
- 'Perhaps we should be looking to the future' - Liz Crow's Resistance on the Plinth
- 'Look deeper' - Katherine Araniello's Suicide Messages
- 'Before you come out with retarded comments...' - Channel 4's Cast Offs
- Scripts of spectatorship?
- 4. Same Difference?: Disability, Presence, Performance and Ethics
- Guillermo Gómez Pena - The Museum of Fetishized Identities
- Marie Chouinard - bODY rEMIX /gOLDBERG vARIATIONS
- Glee - dance, cripdrag and the Artie Abrams character
- Ethical encounters?
- Conclusion: (Dia)Logics of Difference
- Bibliography
- Index
