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Queering Time, Ageing, and Relationships with Split Britches
This article begins by outlining some dominant narratives that produce ageism by socially constructing older age as a time of linear decline, social dependency, social isolation, and intergenerational conflict. It then ... -
A Sense of Place: Staging Psychogeographies of the UK Housing Crisis
(De Gruyter, 2023-05-03)Contemporary Britain is experiencing an enduring and devastating housing crisis spearheaded in 1980 by Margaret Thatcher’s introduction of the “Right to Buy” social housing and sustained by an enduring neoliberal hegemony. ... -
A manifesto to decentre theatre and performance studies
(2021-01-01)With the climate of Brexit, xenophobia and white supremacy on the rise, health and safety of Black and Global Majority people under threat during the spread of Covid in the UK and elsewhere, a discussion of colonialism, ... -
Relative Values: apreendendo o valor da cultura
(Itau Cultural, 2022-09-12)O artigo apresenta a relative values, metodologia proposta pelo People’s Palace Projects, centro de pesquisa em artes com sede em Londres. Explicitam-se a relação entre os objetivos do trabalho e a importância do seu caráter ... -
‘This is My Life’
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‘Kind of Goya-esque or Something’: Charles Ray’s Early Works
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A PLACE OF SEEING: PEOPLE'S PALACE PROJECTS AND THE CITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO
(2022-05-01)Since 2002, Rio de Janeiro has been a place from where the People's Palace Project (PPP) beholds the world. Created in 1997, the PPP is a research centre and a professional arts organisation that aims to explore how the ... -
Delete the Idea Down: James Lee Byars and the Performance of Abbreviation
A self-described “momenteer,” James Lee Byars (1932–1997) is arguably best remembered for the extravagant, imposing, and durable sculptural works he made in the 1980s and 1990s, typically using marble, bronze, glass, or ... -
Labor in Contemporary Shakespeare Performance
(2020-01-01)