Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship : Unconscious Performers / by B. Hadley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hadley, B., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts.

Theater.

Sociology.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Human rights.

Theatre and Performance Arts.

Cultural Studies.

Human Rights.

Local Subjects:

Theatre and Performance Arts.

Sociology.

Cultural Studies.

Human Rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Disability, Performance and the Public Sphere; Seeing, imaging and imagining the other; Disability, performance and performative interventions in public space; Protesters, pranksters or pity seekers? - the motivations and conundrums of interventionalist performance; Studying the performativity of spectatorship; Book structure; 1 Weebles, Mirages and Living Mirrors: The Ethics of Embarrassed Laughter; Bodies in becoming - Igneous's Mirage; Bodies ambiguous - Noemi Lakmaier's Exercise in Losing Control

BibliographyIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349484492

1349484490

9781137396082

1137396083