The situated performative: Considering the politics of the pause in performance

Abstract

This chapter explores the political potential of the ‘pause’ in performance through reflecting on the performance work Standing Bird, which premiered at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in 2012. Drawing on Jill Dolan’s concept of the ‘utopian performative moment’, the chapter questions what it means to make truly political performance for spectators in the ‘globalising West’, and considers how a ‘situated performative’ – which engages the real alongside the imagined – can engender the political ‘re-’ by opening up different ways of responding to the world.

RAS ID

40542

Document Type

Book Chapter

Date of Publication

2019

School

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)

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Taylor & Francis

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Taylor, A. (2019). The situated performative: Considering the politics of the pause in performance. In The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics (pp. 322-324). Routledge.

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203731055

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10.4324/9780203731055