{"title":"Permanent Gestures","authors":"Meredith Lee","doi":"10.1017/S1054204323000242","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Primitive whiteness refers to the atavistic and colonial violence of the appropriation of tattooing in the United States. The radical deviance of the tattooist and their canvas, read through queer forms of pathologized identities, illuminates what happens when this primitive whiteness is indeed queer.","PeriodicalId":46402,"journal":{"name":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"32 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204323000242","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"THEATER","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Primitive whiteness refers to the atavistic and colonial violence of the appropriation of tattooing in the United States. The radical deviance of the tattooist and their canvas, read through queer forms of pathologized identities, illuminates what happens when this primitive whiteness is indeed queer.
期刊介绍:
TDR traces the broad spectrum of performances, studying performances in their aesthetic, social, economic, and political contexts. With an emphasis on experimental, avant-garde, intercultural, and interdisciplinary performance, TDR covers performance art, theatre, dance, music, visual art, popular entertainments, media, sports, rituals, and the performance in and of politics and everyday life. Each fully illustrated issue includes: -Articles on theatre, dance, popular entertainments, rituals, politics, and social life: the whole broad spectrum of performance -Original contributions to performance theory -Editorial comments, critical analysis, and book reviews -Articles by social scientists, cultural commentators, theorists, artists, scholars, and critics -Interviews with performers, choreographers, directors, composers, and performance artists -Texts of performance works -Translations of important new and decisive archival writings on performance