...Introduction<subtitle>Suzanne Lacy: Three Decades of Performing and Writing/Writing and Performing</subtitle> ...

... speak in stylized registers. Their autobiographies reveal a kind of doubled performativity, by which the self is twice created, both as a stage performer and as a social being. In the case of Jayshankar Sundari, a female impersonator of the highest order, the chapter analyzes the revealing and occlusion...

... This chapter looks at the production and performance of the Japanese-language theatrical adaptation of the iconic The Tale of Ch’unhyang (春香傳). This chapter details the complex process of translation and adaptation that led to the play’s performance, locating the play in the contemporary context...

... Post-9/11 security cultures cultivate transparency chic, or the artful performance of consumer and suspect. The chapter analyzes the Transportation Security Administration’s policies and procedures for monitoring the things that passengers carry onto planes. The airport is akin to a maximum...

... environment. The demand for affective transparency within airports potentially poses a threat to public participation beyond, insofar as it isolates members of the public, each of whom may be caught in a private experience of the terror of suspicion, and breeds conformity via the pressure to perform...

... accounts of the archival impulse in contemporary art, Horton emphasizes fluid exchanges between human bodies and sensuous objects—what she calls “performing props”—throughout Luna’s performances and installations. She focuses in particular on woven baskets, which reintegrate a colonial binary of “archive...