"Bree Hadley (2014) Disability, Public Space Performance, and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers. London: Palgrave Macmillan."

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Title: "Bree Hadley (2014) Disability, Public Space Performance, and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers. London: Palgrave Macmillan."
Description: "Why would disabled people want to re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the everyday encounters in public spaces and places that cast them as ugly, strange, stare-worthy? In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who do exactly this. Operating in a live or performance art paradigm, artists like James Cunningham (Australia), Noemi Lakmaier (UK/Austria), Alison Jones (UK), Aaron Williamson (UK), Katherine Araniello (UK), Bill Shannon (US), Back to Back Theatre (Australia), Rita Marcalo (UK), Liz Crow (UK) and Mat Fraser (UK) all use installation and public space performance practices to re-stage their disabled identities in risky, guerilla-style works that remind passersby of their own complicity in the daily social drama of disability. In doing so, they draw spectators' attention to their own role in constructing Western concepts of disability. This book investigates the way each of us can become unconscious performers in a daily social drama that positions disability people as figures of tragedy, stigma or pity, and the aesthetics, politics and ethics of performance practices that intervene very directly in this drama. It constructs a framework for understanding the way spectators are positioned in these practices, and how they contribute to public sphere debates about disability today."
Identifier: BK00042
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
datePublished: 2014
sourceOrganization: Igneous; Back to Back Theatre
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creator: Bree Hadley; Bruce Gladwin; James Cunningham; Suzon Fuks
category: abstract
Type: Book
Format: URL
inLanguage: English
keywords: Theatre and Performance; Visual Art and Galleries; Film/TV/New Media; Digital arts; Multi Arts; D/deaf Arts and Artists; Blind or Low Vision Arts and Artists; Neurodivergent Arts and Artists; d/Deaf or hard of hearing; Blind or low vision; Autism/ADHD/Neurodiversity; Intellectual disability; Physical disability; Equity and non-discrimination; Advocacy and awareness raising; Access; Participation in politics and public life; Participation in cultural life; Education and employment
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url: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137396082

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