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  • "I Saw a Woman": Performance, Performativity and Affect

    Author(s)
    Lovell, Sue
    Reinthal, Teone
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Lovell, Sue R.
    Reinthal, Teone T.
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    Drawing on Augusto Boal’s revolutionary deconstruction of the aesthetic space of theatre in preference for social action theatre existing beyond the proscenium, the article focuses on the concepts of performativity, emotion and embodiment as they occur in experimental forms of improvised performance and explores the relationship of affect to agency. It suggests that the symbiosis of affect and performance marks the shift to performativity, recognising performativity as a tool of agency. Integral to the argument is the recognition that, again drawing on Boal, people have a capacity to see themselves seeing themselves, prompting ...
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    Drawing on Augusto Boal’s revolutionary deconstruction of the aesthetic space of theatre in preference for social action theatre existing beyond the proscenium, the article focuses on the concepts of performativity, emotion and embodiment as they occur in experimental forms of improvised performance and explores the relationship of affect to agency. It suggests that the symbiosis of affect and performance marks the shift to performativity, recognising performativity as a tool of agency. Integral to the argument is the recognition that, again drawing on Boal, people have a capacity to see themselves seeing themselves, prompting deeper understandings of self in relation to the social. Accordingly, the paper espouses an awareness of how improvised, community theatre projects shift participant understandings of emerging and liminal identities and argues that in order for the performance to become performative, there must be the taking up and nurturing of a contingent, discursively produced agency.
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    Journal Title
    Anglistica AION
    Volume
    18
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    https://www.unior.it/ateneo/13400/1/anglistica-aion-an-interdisciplinary-journal.html
    Subject
    Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/123578
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