Bears and the Russian Body Politic. Watching Vladimir Putin’s Press Conference on 18 December 2014
Sitting at an empty table, occasionally sipping from a large white cup, the Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed to be […]
A review of some Middle Eastern Movies
Today’s post comes to you from our unofficial but very active and growing “Allegra Lab Italy”, and is a partial and
Stitched Up, part 2/2!
This is the second part in our Special Review section of Tansy E. Hoskins´ book Stitched Up – 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
Stitched Up, part 1/2!
Tansy E. Hoskins. 2014. Stitched Up. The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion. Pluto Press. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780745334561. Tansy E. Hoskins’
Boredom at #EASA2014
On August 2nd, 2014, Allegra ran a panel titled ‘Boredom, Intimacy and Governance in ‘Normalized’ Times of Crisis’ at
Music’s Marvellous Medicine & Moerman’s ‘Meaning Effect’
I am not alone in using music medicinally. The use of music’s mood altering properties was one of the themes
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
DanceExtravaganza Threads
Karaoke as performance ideology: youth and self-fashioning in Kampala’s night life
Yellow Bar, Mukono, Central Uganda; February 2010. It is Saturday night in Mukono on the outskirts of Kampala city. The