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Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject This book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity pol- itics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledges the important close relationship between the discourses and practices historically, while speculating that theatre and performance can enlighten ways of being that are not limited by conventional identitarian languages or formations. The essays engage contemporary theatre and performance practices that pose challenging questions about identity and politics—as well as subjectiv- ity, relationality, and ethics—responding to neoliberal constructions and exploitations of identity by seeking to discern, describe, or imagine a new political subject. The volume includes essays by leading international schol- ars who look to a range of performance sites that include visual arts prac- tice, digital culture, music, public events, and experimental theatre. Matthew Causey is Associate Professor in the School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and Founder and Director of the College’s Arts Technology Research Laboratory. Fintan Walsh is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Birkbeck, Univer- sity of London, UK. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies 1 Theatre and Postcolonial Desires 9 Crossing Cultural Borders Awam Amkpa Through the Actor’s Work Foreign Bodies of Knowledge 2 Brecht and Critical Theory Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento Dialectics and Contemporary Aesthetics 10 Movement Training for the Sean Carney Modern Actor Mark Evans 3 Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting 11 The Politics of American Actor Jonathan Pitches Training Edited by Ellen Margolis and 4 Performance and Cognition Lissa Tyler Renaud Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn 12 Performing Embodiment in Edited by Bruce McConachie and Samuel Beckett’s Drama F. Elizabeth Hart Anna McMullan 5 Theatre and Performance in 13 The Provocation of the Senses in Digital Culture Contemporary Theatre From Simulation to Stephen Di Benedetto Embeddedness Matthew Causey 14 Ecology and Environment in European Drama 6 The Politics of New Media Downing Cless Theatre Life®™ 15 Global Ibsen Gabriella Giannachi Performing Multiple Modernities Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, 7 Ritual and Event Barbara Gronau, and Christel Interdisciplinary Perspectives Weiler Edited by Mark Franko 16 The Theatre of the Bauhaus 8 Memory, Allegory, and The Modern and Postmodern Testimony in South American Stage of Oskar Schlemmer Theater Melissa Trimingham Upstaging Dictatorship Ana Elena Puga 17 Feminist Visions and Queer 27 Dramas of the Past on the Futures in Postcolonial Drama Twentieth-Century Stage Community, Kinship, and In History’s Wings Citizenship Alex Feldman Kanika Batra 28 Performance, Identity, and the 18 Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Neo-Political Subject the Imperial Encounter Edited by Matthew Causey and Marty Gould Fintan Walsh 19 The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players Sarah Gorman 20 Shakespeare, Theatre and Time Matthew D. Wagner 21 Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11 Patriotic Dissent Edited by Jenny Spencer 22 Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith Edited by Lance Gharavi 23 Adapting Chekhov The Text and its Mutations Edited by J. Douglas Clayton and Yana Meerzon 24 Performance and the Politics of Space Theatre and Topology Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte and Benjamin Wihstutz 25 Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama Katrine K. Wong 26 The Unwritten Grotowski Theory and Practice of the Encounter Kris Salata This page intentionally left blank Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject Edited by Matthew Causey and Fintan Walsh NEW YORK LONDON First published 2013 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2013 Taylor & Francis The right of Matthew Causey and Fintan Walsh to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Performance, identity, and the neo-political subject / edited by Matthew Causey and Fintan Walsh. pages cm. — (Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 28) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Performing arts—Political aspects. 2. Theater—Political aspects. 3. Identity (Psychology) I. Causey, Matthew. II. Walsh, Fintan. PN1590.P64P47 2013 792—dc23 2012040725 ISBN: 978-0-415-50965-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-07845-7 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by IBT Global. Contents List of Figures xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject 1 MATTHEW CAUSEY AND FINTAN WALSH PART I Positioning the Neo-Political Subject 1 The Metaphyiscal Fight: Performative Politics and the Virus of Alienation 21 HERBERT BLAU 2 ID/entity: The Subject’s Own Taking Place 33 MATTHEW CAUSEY AND GABRIELLA CALCHI NOVATI PART II A/Semiotic Directions 3 The Theatre of Thought 51 PATRICIA MACCORMACK 4 ‘I Scream the Body Electric’: Performance, the Field Body, and Zombies in Societies of Entrainment 62 DAVID FANCY viii Contents 5 The Fugitive Theatre of Romeo Castellucci: Intermedial Refractions and Fractalactic Occurrences 82 ADAM BRYX AND BRYAN REYNOLDS 6 The Post-subjective Body, Or Deleuze and Guattari Meet Romeo Castellucci 101 AUDRONĖ ŽUKAUSKAITĖ PART III Collaborative Practice, Collective Action 7 A Diluted Manifesto 119 LAURA CULL, MATTHEW GOULISH, AND LIN HIXSON 8 Being Janez Janša 138 MAAIKE BLEEKER 9 The Bone’s Pirouette: Disability Dance Writing and the Crip Relic 154 PETRA KUPPERS 10 Dance and the Event: John Jasperse’s Giant Empty and the Disclosure of Being 166 NIGEL STEWART PART IV Performing Along and Outside the Borders of Identity 11 Temporary Legitimacy: Queer Possibilities in Digital Performance 185 STEPHEN GREER 12 Aff ective Presents/Eff ective Presence: History, Futurity, and the Theatrical Politics of the Child 201 JOSHUA ABRAMS Contents ix 13 The Matter of Queer Politics and Ethics: Antony Hegarty and The Crying Light 215 FINTAN WALSH 14 Refl ective Viewing: ORLAN’s Hybridised Harlequin, Banksy, Bacon, and the Animal-Human Divide 230 JENNIFER PARKER-STARBUCK 15 Palestine and Political Invention 245 MAURYA WICKSTROM Contributors 261 Index 267
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