New Anthropologies of Political Performance – thematic thread on performance
Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the […]
‘All the world’s a stage?’ A review of Bruno Latour’s Gaïa Global Circus
Theatre, it could be argued, involves three major concerns: warning (criticism), representation (mimesis), and collective aesthetic imagination (aisthesis/poïesis). While the
‘15 Minutes’: Artistic responses to German refugee temporalities
“Early in the morning”, one of my informants, a 39 year-old Iranian political refugee and former lecturer at the University
The Politics of Framing and Staging. Interdisciplinary approaches to performance
Bernardo: Who’s there? Francisco: Nay, answer me: stand and unfold yourself! [i] These opening lines of Shakespeare’s Hamlet create a scenario