Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2081912
Kareem Khubchandani
ABSTRACT Though aunties are ubiquitous figures across global public cultures, they have received limited scholarly attention. Given the location of these women, femme, and queer figures at the periphery of nuclear families, it is little surprise that they are overlooked. Rather than fixate on their marginality, this introduction demonstrates how aunties become abundant figures to think kinship, desire, aesthetics, and politics. Examining academic and arts-based discussions of aunties, the special-issue editor connects labor associated with aunties to aesthetics they are known for. In addition to being embodied, fleshy, working figures, aunties offer methodological optics for critical study and strategies for navigating academic institutions.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2088849
Sarah Amira de la Garza
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Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2088846
Joshua Hamzehee
ABSTRACT I have experience adapting texts and subverting form because of my histories as a student, coach, instructor, scholar, and practitioner in both performance studies and forensics interpretation. I argue practitioners in each area can benefit by adapting with and to the other. This essay urges performance studies to embrace forensics interpretation because of potentials provided through consistent adaptive experimentation opportunities, exposure to texts and audiences, and feedback rooted in critical generosity. Applying a conceptual chiasmus, forensics gains by opening binders to performance theories, methodologies, and developed texts, to the diversity of forms performances take, and to insights experimental performance paradigms offer.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2088845
Patricia A. Suchy
ABSTRACT In 2018, I adapted and staged Marilynne Robinson's 1980 novel Housekeeping for the HopKins Black Box at Louisiana State University. The adaptation was both a return to my roots in Chamber Theatre and an adaptation of the method itself to speak to and of the contexts of a contemporary, situated ensemble of performers and audience. In this essay, I describe the rationale for returning to Chamber Theatre for an adaptation of Housekeeping and how my understanding of the practice has evolved in the last several decades.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2084152
Mindy Fenske
The cover of Fates of the Performative is a photograph of Jeff Koons’ 1980 installation piece entitled “New Hoover Quik Broom, New Hoover Celebrity IV.” In the 56 × 22 × 19 3/5 inch artwork, the back of a clear hard plastic case/frame is lined by 4 industrial-style fluorescent vertical lightbulbs. On the left, the beige-pink Quik Broom is mounted with handle up and broom down. On the right, the Celebrity is arranged with its bright mid-century modern blue canister at the top and the white flexible hose curling down to the blue-broom bottom. This might seem a curious choice for a cover to a heavily theoretical critical genealogy of the immaterial illocutionary force of the performative (Chapters 1–3) followed by biopolitical critical explorations of the performative in different scientific, social, political and cultural contexts (Chapters 4–6). Upon reading the book, however, the art is apt and provides a reading frame for Fates. Before taking up (or uptaking) the critical fancy of the cover art as an organizing conceit, here are a few observations. First, I recommend reading the book. While Nealon is not directly writing to a performance studies audience, the book’s deep investment in how language and matter productively intra-actively act within and outside structures (of meaning, institutions, science, etc.) is deeply relevant to posthuman performance, identity performance, and performance criticism (and more). Second, the book’s tapestry of insights about art, aesthetics, literature, and critical scholarship both articulate and perform the uncertain (and thus) powerful potential of the performative in the twenty-first century (C21). Third, Nealon presents an exceptionally well-crafted and persuasive argument that the performative is “second to none when it comes to its influence on recent humanities theory in North America” (x). In particular, the book situates the force of the performative within concepts and critiques of biopolitics, new materialism, and neo-liberalism. This argument is informed by Nealon’s encyclopedic theoretical knowledge (continental philosophy in general, and Foucault specifically), self-reflexivity (despite dealing with mostly continently philosophy, the book argues for de-colonizing the canon), and wit (although, perhaps by design, not all the jokes land). What follows is a tour through some of the book, guided by Koons’ art and Nealon’s ideas.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2065023
S. Krishnamurti
ABSTRACT South Asian aunties are responsible for gatekeeping in the social relations of caste-based heteropatriarchal families and in white supremacist academia. Through collective performative writing, we name the category of aunty-power, exploring its possibilities for upending the hegemonies that persist in South Asian culture, and in South Asian Studies. We are acutely aware of the need to resist Hindutva and Islamophobia and interrogate what is at stake in South Asian invocations of “aunty.” We present a reconceptualization of the aunty as subject through the figure of the auntylectual, our attempt to imagine a potentially transformative feminist figure who challenges these hierarchies.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-30DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2078874
T. M. L. Sutton
ABSTRACT This is a DIY chapbook of poems crafted between 2018 and 2021. I write found poems and centos drawing from newspaper coverage of fires and flowers in California. If the land exerts agential influence on epistemologies and ontologies, and as climate change affects changes to the land, I ask what new epistemologies and ontologies must necessarily emerge. I see in the California superbloom a utopian performative (Dolan) that potentially points toward reciprocal relationships with the land. Performative poetic inquiry offers a practise of attention that allows me to explore ethical and reciprocal futurities that include fire, flowers, and humans.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-25DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2078503
Cheyenne Zaremba
ABSTRACT The growing body of scholarship exploring nonhuman participation in performance and organizational space has made it clear that performance studies can offer a new perspective on space as a performer. Taking performance as the unit of analysis, this paper proposes engaging sites at the intersection of space, time, and culture to advance organizational dimensions of space by recognizing the agency of space as a performer. Using observational data gathered from rural cemeteries, this study finds a performance-centered approach affords a more nuanced understanding of sense-making for the study of space.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-25DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2076898
AB Brown
ABSTRACT In this essay, I describe how white South African drag queen Evita Bezuidenhout uses multiple performance platforms – a television series, a cookbook, and a political party to queer the temporality of national political transition. She does so by combining elements of tautological reasoning with her performance persona as an Afrikaner tannie, or aunty. I call this formation tau(n)tology to name the temporal and performative logics of aunties that assert an alternative reality, one that might often be deemed “needless,” redundant, excessive. At various moments of political transition, Tannie Evita’s aunty performances establish a particular relationship to time that reflect the sociopolitical context and teach her audience, particularly white South Africans, how to navigate shifting race, gender, and class politics.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-29DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2067349
Kate G. Willink
ABSTRACT This article explores the concept of affective legacies – the intergenerational transmission of affect through storytelling and embodied performance. I examine affective legacies as embedded in oral history interviews of school desegregation in rural North Carolina and what these oral history interviews teach us about how performances of memory shape our understandings of racism and racial integration as an embodied and affective practice. This study illuminates how affective legacies guide our relations, inform the way we perceive and remember, shaping an emotional meaning-making system that motivates our personal and cultural understandings and judgments as well as contemporary stories of racial struggles.
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