Socially Engaged Creative Practice : Contemporary Case Studies / edited by Jess Moriarty and Kate Aughterson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moriarty, Jess, editor.

Aughterson, Kate, editor.

Series:

Performance and Communities Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social practice (Art).

Art and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect, [2024]

Summary:

This collection is the second in the Performance and Communities series. Contributions from academics and artists engage with both these notions of performance - that of identities in and through time and space - and of more formal instances of specific time-limited performances (textual/ embodied/ visual/ communal). 31 b&w illus.

Contents:

Cover

Socially Engaged Creative Practice

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

SECTION ONE: CHANGING THEATRES

1 In Our Sites: A Personal View of the Writer’s Role in Place-Making Theatre with, by, and for Communities

2. Dramatizing Recent History: The Bombing of the Grand Hotel

3. Thoughts on Appropriation: Collaboration for Silkmoth

4. Disremembered

5. Representation and Collective Creation: The Work of MENA Arts UK

SECTION TWO: TAKING TO THE STREETS

6. Disorientation, Creativity, and Performance in Liminal Spaces: A Case Study of a Writer in Residence at Heathrow Airport and Oval Underground Station

7. Conversations Between Borders: Cyclical Thinking and Alternative Worlds

8. Extinction Rebellion and Performance Activism on the Streets of London

9. Making Community from Mess: Mapping the Santiago de Cuba Carnival and the Carnivalesque of my Research Journey

SECTION THREE: TRANSFORMING SPACES AND STORIES

10. Holding Queer Space/Holding Space Queerly: Lockdown Reflections on Queer Performance and Community

11. You’ll Never Forget, I’ll Never Remember. You’ll Neve rRemember, I’ll Never Forget

12. Preserving Fruit: Using Oral History to Preserve Stories of Black British History and the Transatlantic Journeys from Which OurTraditions Have Emerged

SECTION FOUR: OPENING UP INSTITUTIONS

13. Beyond the Room

14. Monsters and Campfires: Using Storytelling to Humanize Institutional Spaces

15. The Clothes on Our Backs: Diversifying the Curriculum

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ISBN:

9781789388893

1789388899

9781789388886

1789388880