An investigation of performative encounters of culture, politics, and education in and for institutional settings.
This book builds on scholarly work rooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self-organization, activist practices, performance, design, and artistic research, (at)tending to the ways that institutions are necessarily political and performed. By evoking the idea of performing institutions, it foregrounds different kinds of “actors” that engage with (re)imagining creative practices—social, artistic, and pedagogical—that critically interact with institutional frameworks and the broader local and global society of which these institutions are part.
With an international range of case studies and critical reflections—from Denmark, Ireland, Finland, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Chile, Asia, and Australasia—contributors show how they envision or pursue performing artistic, cultural, social, and educational practices as caring engagements with contested sites. They address the following questions: How do current institutions perform—academically, spatially, custodially, and structurally? How might we stay engaged with the ways that institutions are inherently contested sites, and what role do care, and counter-hegemonic practices play in rearticulating other ways of performing institutions, and how they perform on us? These are the questions central to this book as it stages a productive tension between two main themes: structures of care (instituting otherwise) and sites of contestations (desiring change).
Edited by:
Anja Mølle Lindelof,
Shauna Janssen,
Anja Molle Lindelof
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789386653
ISBN 10: 1789386659
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 19 April 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Contested Sites and Structures of Care – Shauna Janssen and Anja Mølle Lindelof ACT ONE 1. Silver: Self/Site-Writing A Courthouse Drama – Jane Rendell 2. Act 01: Love. On Political Love vs. Institutional Loyalty – Sepideh Karami 3. The Thinkers: Thought–Action Figures #7 – Jon McKenzie and Aneta Stojnić ACT TWO 4. Performing Indigenization: New Institutional Imperatives Post Truth and Reconciliation – Kathleen Irwin 5. Foolish White Men: Tree-Felling and Wrestling: Performing the Institution of the White Man from an Aotearoa Perspective – Mark Harvey ACT THREE 6. Performing Aural and Temporal Architecture: Re-framing the University through The Verbatim Formula – Maggie Inchley, Paula Siqueira, Sadhvi Dar, Sylvan Baker and Mita Pujara 7. Performance Design as Education of Desire – Franziska Bork Petersen and Michael Haldrup 8. Mode D: Evental Forms of Exchange in Art Education – Glenn Loughran 9. Performative Urbanism: Mapping Embodied Vision – Christina Juhlin and Kristine Samson 10. Performance Design: Performative Gestures within Academic Institutions – Rodrigo Tisi ACT FOUR 11. Caring Buildings – Liisa Ikonen 12. Alieni nati: Journey-Performance at S. Maria della Pietà Former Psychiatric Hospital in Rome – Fabrizio Crisafulli ACT FIVE 13. From Garage to Campus: Exploring the Limits of the Museum in Contemporary Russia – Anton Belov and Katya Inozemtseva 14. Not Not Research – Henk Slager 15. LGB’s Manifest – LGB Society of Mind ACT SIX 16. Dis-establishment – Sam Trubridge 17. Reclaiming Subjectivity through Urban Space Intervention: The People’s Architecture Helsinki – Maiju Loukola 18. Public-Making as a Strategy for Spatial Justice – Kenneth Bailey and Lori Lobenstine, Design Studio for Social Intervention Notes on Contributors
Anja Mølle Lindelof is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator, affiliated with Roskilde University, Denmark. She has served as head of studies for the Performance Design Programme and investigates performative approaches to institutions and their audiences. Shauna Janssen is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher and educator based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Turtle Island/Canada. She is Assistant Professor of Performance Creation and holds a University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism at Concordia University.
