Performing Institutions (eBook, ePUB)

Contested Sites and Structures of Care
Redaktion: Lindelof, Anja Mølle; Janssen, Shauna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Performing Institutions: Contested Sites and Structures of Care builds upon scholarly work rooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self-organization, activist practices, performance, design, and artistic research, (at)tending to the ways that institutions are necessarily political and performed.

By evoking the idea of Performing Institutions, it foregrounds all kinds of 'actors' that engage with (re)imagining creative practices - social, artistic, and pedagogical - that critically interact with institutional frameworks and the broader local and global society of which these institutions are part.

With case studies and critical reflections from Denmark, Ireland, Finland, the UK, Canada, the USA, Chile, Asia and Australasia contributors show how they envision or pursue performing artistic, cultural, social and educational practices as caring engagements with contested sites, addressing the following questions. How do current institutions perform - academically, spatially, custodially and structurally? How might we stay engaged with the ways that institutions are inherently contested sites, and what role do care, and counter-hegemonic practices play in rearticulating other ways of performing institutions, and how they perform on us?

These are the questions central to this book as it stages a productive tension between two main themes: structures of care (instituting otherwise) and sites of contestations (desiring change).

Some of the texts in this collection stage a productive tension between ideas about caring contestations and contestation as a caring engagement in practice, with a view towards institutional transformation. Other contributors investigate the idea of caring contestations as a critical concept that draws attention to questions of power and to the exclusions produced and reproduced in and through specific institutional practices. As such, this collection of writing puts forward caring contestations as a critical mode for (re)enacting institutional engagements. This also brings forward questions of agency and how, for those of us who perform within institutional structures, we care to engage and/or contest those institutional engagements.

It is primarily aimed at scholars, educators, research-practitioners and postgraduate students in the fields of performance studies, theory, creation and design, those working at art institutions and art schools Also relevant to researchers working across various fields of organizational as well as educational approaches to performance culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Intellect Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789386677
• Artikelnr.: 67294859

Autorenporträt

Anja Mølle Lindelof is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator. She is associate professor and head of studies in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. Shauna Janssen is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher and educator based in Tiohtià ke/Montréal, Turtle Island/Canada. She is associate professor of performance creation and holds a university research chair in performative urbanism at Concordia University.