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Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance

Danger, Im/mobility and Politics

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Editors:
  1. Marina Gržinić

    1. Institute of Fine Arts (IBK), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  2. Aneta Stojnić

    1. Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia

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  • Brings together perspectives form different fields and different geopolitical contexts
  • Includes chapters from both established academics and new, emerging scholars
  • Includes a special section of statements from artists practising in this area

Part of the book series: Avant-Gardes in Performance (AGP)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Marina Gržinić, Aneta Stojnić
    Pages 1-19

  3. Shifting Corporealities from Biopolitics to Necropolitics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Reclaiming the Body: Fem Positions Repoliticized

      • Marina Gržinić, Aneta Stojnić
      Pages 23-43

    3. “We’re Trying to Destroy the World”: Anti-Blackness and Police Violence After Ferguson

      • Frank B. Wilderson III
      Pages 45-59

    4. Revolutionary Performances

      • Ramsay Burt, Adham Hafez
      Pages 61-85

  4. Protest and Opposition: Performing Towards Provoking and Bypassing a Dissensus

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Standing Still Dancing in a Circle: Performance Dissent and Failed Gestures in Public Protest

      • Johannes Birringer
      Pages 89-102

    3. Countering Persecution, Misconceptions, and Nationalism: Roma Identity and Contemporary Activist Art

      • Jasmina Tumbas
      Pages 103-127

    4. Performing Ideology: Communitas and Immunitas

      • Ana Vujanović
      Pages 129-141

    5. Reconstructing the Bodies: Between the Politics of Order and the Politics of Disorder

      • Goran Petrović Lotina
      Pages 143-163

  5. Technology and the Body in the Changed Scenery of Stagnation, Disposability and Immobility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. The Mascot as Neoliberal Body: Kris Verdonck’s UNTITLED

      • Kristof van Baarle
      Pages 167-181

    3. “Dangerous” Choreopolitics of Labouring Bodies: Biopolitics and Choreopolitics in Conflict in the Act of Jana Natya Mandali in India

      • Brahma Prakash
      Pages 183-201

    4. The Appearance of Truth in Art: Body, Subjectivation and the Generic Life

      • Bojana Matejić
      Pages 203-215

    5. Invisible Mothers: Biopolitical Control in Ireland

      • S. E. Wilmer
      Pages 217-230

  6. Decolonizing Disciplines, Decolonizing Regimes, Unruly Bodies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
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    2. Disciplining as a Human Science

      • Lewis R. Gordon
      Pages 233-250

    3. Performing Self-sacrifice, Despite Everything or Despite Oneself? Embodying a Necropolitical Space of Appearance in the Tunisian Revolution

      • Joachim Ben Yakoub
      Pages 251-274

    4. Post Millennial Choreographic Challenges: Survival, Celebration and Critique

      • Stacey Prickett
      Pages 275-292
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This book investigates how contemporary artistic practices engage with the body and its intersection with political, technological, and ethical issues. Departing from the relationship between corporeality and performing arts (such as theater, dance, and performance), it turns to a pluriversal understanding of embodiment that resides in the extra violent conditions of contemporary global necro-capitalism in order to conduct a thorough analysis that goes beyond arts and culture. It brings together theoretical academic texts by established and emerging scholars alike, exposing perspectives form different fields (philosophy, cultural studies, performance studies, theater studies, and dance studies) as well as from different geopolitical contexts. Through a series of thematic clusters, the study explores the reactivation of the body as a site of a new meaning-making politics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Fine Arts (IBK), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Marina Gržinić

  • Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia

    Aneta Stojnić

About the editors

Marina Gržinić is a philosopher and artist who lives in Ljubljana and works in Ljubljana and Vienna. She is Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria, and a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the SRC SASA (Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has published ten books (monographs and translations) as well as numerous influential articles in renowned academic journals.


Aneta Stojnić is a theoretician, artist, curator, and Professor of Performance and Media Theory in the Faculty of Media and Communications at Singidunum University in Belgrade, Serbia. She is currently a candidate at IPTAR Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York, USA. She has published three books and numerous articles in renowned peer reviewed publications and has authored various artistic and curatorial projects across Europe.

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