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Perfect Bodies and Digital Influencers: Gendered Ruptures of Performance on Social Media in Brazil
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Beatriz Polivanov; Fernanda Carrera Abstract The quest for the so-called perfect body has been an issue in Brazilian society for a long time, especially for women. A number of “digital influencers” perform a fitness lifestyle, producing subjectivities entangled with an idea of success and “well...
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“Participatory Drama”: The New Left, the Vietnam War, and the Emergence of Performance Studies
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2015
...) argued for participatory democracy, an experimental theater troupe called The Performance Group (TPG) developed a theatrical style that blurred the lines between audience and performer. These three developments were interrelated. All three, moreover, were connected to the continuation and escalation...
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The Institutionalization of Author Production and the Performance Imperative as an Ontological Fiction
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 March 2013
... a circuitry of value in which the performance imperative dominates transformative thought. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 literary production ontology parrēsia Solzhenitsyn Soviet writers' unions On May16, 1967, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn signed his name to an open letter to the Fourth...
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Figuring Performance
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 233–237.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Julie Gaillard Lyotard and the “Figural” in Performance, Art, and Writing by Bamford Kiff , New York : Continuum , 2012 , 224 pp., $120.00/€92.00 (hardcover) , ISBN 978-1-4411-6707-1 © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Lyotard Jean-François . 1988...
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in Collective Crafting in Post-Suharto Indonesia: A Journey with Ruangrupa from the Jakarta Institute of the Arts to Documenta Fifteen in Kassel
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 12 Ruangrupa, sound performance gig, National Gallery Indonesia, 2008.
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in Blazing Epiphany: Maintenance Art Manifesto 1969! : An Interview with Mierle Laderman Ukeles
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 4 Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Touch Sanitation Performance , July 24, 1979–June 26, 1980. Citywide performance with eighty-five hundred sanitation workers across all fifty-nine New York City Sanitation districts. Landfill (location and date unknown). Photograph by Deborah Freedman. © Mierle
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Do You Hear the People's Nonsense?: Performing Resistance in Pandemic-Era China
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 396–412.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Zhen Cheng Abstract This study examines the performance of artistic activism and mass protests in COVID-era China, with a particular focus on Yang Xiao's Farewell, Language and the White Paper protests. The objective of this article is to illuminate the interplay between politics and performance...
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Mui Cheuk-yin and dancers performing “Umbrella Dance” in Admiralty, October...
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Figure 7 Mui Cheuk-yin and dancers performing “Umbrella Dance” in Admiralty, October 12, 2014. Photo by Chu Wing Lun, provided by Apple Daily
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in Blazing Epiphany: Maintenance Art Manifesto 1969! : An Interview with Mierle Laderman Ukeles
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 3 Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside , 1973. Part of Maintenance Art performance series, 1973–74. Performance at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. © Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Courtesy the artist and Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York.
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The Everyman and the Dung Beetle: New Media Infrastructures for Lower-Class Cultural Politics
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 202–226.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Emma Baulch Noting the increasing tendency of Indonesian pop performers to organize and agitate politically, the article aims to locate these celebrity politics in a history of media change, and to explore their implications for lower-class collective organizing. Through a discussion of two pop...
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Wikination: On Peace and Conflict in the Middle East
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 5–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in Mouffe, but which can also be located in the institution of academic criticism more widely. “WikiNation” is part of a series of “performative media” projects. Performative media here stands for media that do not endeavor to represent the world so much as have an effect in or on it. They are media which...
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Prefigurative Politics at Bread and Puppet Theater
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 92–111.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Jasmine Erdener Abstract Bread and Puppet (B&P) Theater is one of the oldest, most influential, and well-known puppet theaters both in the United States and abroad and has been at the forefront of puppetry, performance, and political protest for more than half a century. B&P also functions...
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The Cliffhangers: Suicide Shows and the Aesthetics of Protest in China
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 147–170.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Margaret Hillenbrand Over the last couple of decades, workers in China’s vast and poorly regulated construction industry have increasingly turned to suicidal performance as a radical means of securing wage arrears. These so-called suicide shows have drawn attention as expressions of escalating...
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 5 Ace Lehner, Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure (2019). Mixed media installation and performance, Wassaic Project. Courtesy of the artist and the Wassaic Project.
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From India with Love: Troublesome Citizens of Fertility Travel
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 307–325.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Charlotte Kroløkke This essay inquires into how motherhood and citizenship are reinvented and performatively negotiated in cases of transnational surrogacy. One transnational surrogacy case reveals the workings of cultural and biological fundamentalism both. The case illustrates how transnational...
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Killing Memory: Roadside Memorial Removals and the Necropolitics of Affect
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Robert M. Bednar This article explores affect and memory at roadside car crash memorials within the context of what Achille Mbembe calls “necropolitics”: the performance of power to determine who legitimately can kill both persons and the memory of persons. By analyzing the ritualized performance...
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in The Spiritualization of Politics and the Technologies of Resistant Body: Conceptualizing Hunger Striking Subjectivity
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Published: 01 July 2021
Figure 2 Jane Frere, Return of the Soul (2008). Edinburgh Art Festival. Photograph by Malcolm Crowthers. This artwork depicts the dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948. The Gazans, in memory of the Nakba , performed conditions of expulsion and the possibilities of return.
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Turkish Delight in Vienna: Art, Islam, and European Public Culture
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 277–298.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and inhabited through performativity, conflict and confrontation. One needs to track how, at the present time, at ground level, by means of micro-practices, different cultural perspectives and social groups meet with each other, confront their differences and make them public. The notion of a European public...
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The Condemnation of Hate and the Violence of the Status Quo
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 45–59.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Sebastian Althoff Abstract This article interrogates the tension between the way that the condemnation of hate performatively establishes and reinforces discursive and affective boundaries for public debates and the embrace of hate by anti-racist, abolitionist, feminist, and queer activists...
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The Production of Wounded Attachment: Reactionary Sentiment in Post-2016 Turkey
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 July 2024
... around public performances of the ezan (the Islamic call to prayer). The article argues that feelings of indignation, victimhood, and revenge are crucial to Turkish politics, as their production lies at the intersection of specific memories of injury and the material foundations of contemporary...
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