Surveillance Spectacles: The Big Art Group’s Flicker and the Screened Body in Performance

Notes

This article analyzes the question of where the dominant mode of production lies – on the screen, where action and a singular character identity cohere, or behind the screen, where the embodied difference of the actors is continually prioritized.

Artist / Author Jason Farman
Reference A0262
Date 2009
Journal Cont Theatre Review
Journal page 181-194
Type Article

Keywords

body Caden Manson digital body embodiment ethics gender identity race spectatorship surveillance The Big Art Group

Similar items

Uninstalling Normality: A Study Room Guide on Madness, Mad Pride & Questioning Normality (2024)
Artist/Author: Dolly Sen | Reference: P4219 | Type: Publication

A Study Room Guide by writer, filmmaker, artist, performer and activist Dolly Sen looking at madness and mental health

Bobby Baker Dolly Sen double consciousness identity mad pride madness normality psychiatry psychology queer Rebekah Ubuntu sanity the vacuum cleaner Vacuum Cleaner

Stop. Rewind. Replay. - Performance, police training and mental health crisis response
Artist/Author: Natalie Alvarez | Editor: felipe Cervera, Elizabeth De Roza, Michael Earley, Richard Gough | Reference: A918 | Type: Article

Training Utopias

Performance Research Volume 25 Issue No. 8 December 2020

Pg69-75

 

Agusto Boal ethics forum theatre law mental health Natalie Alvarez performance police training Theatre of the Oppressed training Training Utopias

Decolonising Performance Pedagogy - A position paper from Bangalore, South India
Artist/Author: Shabari Rao | Editor: Felipe Cervera, Elizabeth De Roza, Michael Earley, Richard Gough | Reference: A0916 | Type: Article

Training Utopias

Performance Research Volume 25 Issue No. 8 December 2020

Pg9-10

 

body collaboration cultural identity dance Dance Training decolonial pedagogy decolonising the curriculum Indian dance Indian Heritage Indian Theatre music nationalism Shabari Rao space

They Are All at Least Seventy - An exploration of female resistance to the decline narrative in theatre and live art
Artist/Author: Beth Watton | Editor: Richard Gough, Nanako Nakajima | Reference: A0915 | Type: Article

On Ageing (&Beyond)

Performance Research Volume 24 Issue No 3 April/May 2019

pg 40-48

activism ageing Beth Watton body female body feminism identity live art Lois Weaver older women Peggy Shaw performance art queer queer feminism Retro(per)spective Rocio Bolivier Split Britches Tammy Whynot

Blackness and Self-Imaging : Lorraine O'Grady's Performance as Mademoiselle Bourgeoise Noire
Artist/Author: Vanessa Damilola Macaulay | Editor: David Calder, Broderick Chow, Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Bryce Lease, Cariad Svich, Sarah Thomassona | Reference: A0911 | Type: Article

Contemporary Theatre Review Volume 32 Issue Number 1 February 2022

p4-20

1980s Black female bodies Black performance conceptual art feminism identity Lorraine O'Grady pageant performance performance art political performance Vanessa Damilola Macaulay

Towards an Eighth Fire Approach : Developing Modes of Indigenous-Settler Performance-Making on Turtle Island
Artist/Author: Melissa Poll | Editor: David Calder, Broderick Chow, Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Bryce Lease, Cariad Svich, Sarah Thomasson | Reference: A0908 | Type: Article

Contemporary Theatre Review, Volume 31 Issue Number 4 November 2021

cultural tradition identity Indigenous performance indigenous-settler performance making land Melissa Poll shakespeare theatre Turtle Island

Conservative Experiments : Women's Rewritings of The Imperial Stele Pavillion in the Twenty-First Century
Artist/Author: Josh Stenberg | Editor: David Calder, Broderick Chow, Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Bryce Lease, Cariad Svich, Sarah Thomasson | Reference: A0907 | Type: Article

Contemporary Theatre Review, Volume 31 Issue Number 3 August 2021

China Chinese Opera Chinese Playwrights cross-dressing FPLET Fujian Province Liyuan Experimental Theatre gender GuoGuang Josh Stenberg Liyuan theatre Taiwan theatre Xiqu

An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art : SELF/s
Artist/Author: T. J. Bacon | Reference: P4212 | ISBN: 978-1-78938-530-4 | Type: Publication

Applying a queer phenomenology to unpack the importance of a multiplicity of Self/s, the book guides readers to be academically rigorous when capturing embodied experiences, featuring exercises to activate their practices and clear introductory definitions to key phenomenological terms. Includes interviews and insights from some of the best examples of transgressive performance art practice of this century help to help unpack the application of phenomenology as Bacon calls for a queer reimagining of Heidegger’s ‘The Origin of the Work of Art.’

Anne Bean Arianna Ferrari body Chelsea Coon Clive Henry Ernst Fischer Esther Marveta Neff failure FK Alexander gender Hancock and Kelly Heather Sincavage Helen Spackman Helena Goldwater Hellen Burrough identity Jamal Harewood Joke Lanz Kamil Guenatri Katherine Araniello Lori Baldwin Louis Fleischauer Natalie Ramus Niko Raes Niko Wearden performance art Performance Philosophy phenomenology Queer Phenomenology Regina José Galindo Rocio Bolivier Rosana Cade Sarah Glass self Selina Bonelli sexuality Sonic Art T. J. Bacon Tempting Failure Weeks and Whitford Will Dickie Yol

Bodies of Knowledge : Three Conversations on Movement, Communication and Identity
Artist/Author: Adesola Akinleye, Isaac Briggs, Jennifer Cooke, Laurie Crow, Thomas Dawkins (aka Cara Noir), Tara Fatehi Irani, Julia Giese, Martin Hargreaves, Claire Heafford, Joe Moran, Laura Purseglove, Kesha Raithatha, Raju Rage, Nat Thorne, Claire Warden, Sam West and Sam Williams. | Editor: Laura Purseglove | Reference: p4205 | ISBN: 978-1-8380229-0-7 | Type: Publication

Featuring conversations, essays, drawings and photographs, Bodies of Knowledge(Ed. Laura Purseglove) reflects and builds on an interdisciplinary project involving artists, amateur and professional dancers, wrestlers, members of a trans community group and academic researchers interrogating how our bodies are both produced by and productive of knowledges.

Adesola Akinleye body Cara Noir care choreography Claire Heafford Claire Warden communication dance documentation gender human body identity Isaac Briggs Jennifer Cooke Joe Moran Julia Giese Kesha Raithatha Laura Purseglove Laurie Crow live art Martin Hargreaves memory movement Nat Thorne performance photography Raju Rage Sam West Sam Williams Tara Fatehi Irani Thomas Dawkins trans body trans identity Wrestling

Strategies of Success : Curator Series 2002-2003
Artist/Author: Tanja Ostojić | Reference: P4204 | ISBN: 2-910164-32-2 | Type: Publication

Book in English with translations to Serbian and French language
With essays by Dr Marina Grzinic, Dr Suzana Milevska and Tanja Ostojić

archive body class curation documentation gender identity installation life live art performance art power queer sexuality Tanja Ostojic women

Queer Fiesta: Hybridity, drag and performance in Bolivian folklore
Artist/Author: Enzo E. Vasquez Toral | Reference: A0901 | ISBN: 1352-8165 | Type: Article

On hybridity, drag and performance in Bolivian folklore

Performance Research pg 98-106, On Hybridity Volume 25, No 4, June 2020.

Bolivian folklore drag Enzo E. Vasquez Toral fiesta folklore gender hybridity La Familia Galán LGBTQ performance queer

Queer Communion: Ron Athey
Editor: Amelia Jones, Andy Campbell | Reference: P4197 | ISBN: 9781789380941 | Type: Publication

Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific and influential performance artists of the past four decades. Queer Communion, an exploration of Athey’s career, refuses the linear narratives of art discourse and instead pays homage to the intensities of each mode of Athey’s performative practice and each community he engages.

Alpesh Patel Amber Musser Automatic writing David Getsy Dominic Johnson gender Julie Tolentino Ming Ma performance art queer Ron Athey sexuality Zackary Drucker