Socially Engaged Creative Practice : Contemporary Case Studies by Kate Aughterson

This is?the second book in the Performance and Communities series.? An edited collection from academics and artists?engages with both these notions of?performance - that of identities in and through?time and space - and of more formal instances of?specific time-limited performances; textual, embodied, visual and communal. Each chapter?focuses on an individual or group's mode of?working and methodological practice of?performance across a range of modes, disciplines?and media - from community opera to online?queer performance, from anti-racist class-room pedagogy to 1980s cabaret in nightclubs, from?community art projects in schools to community?writing projects in transport interchanges, the?performers, writers and creators represented here?all engage and grapple with contemporary?performance as a situated practice and as a?problematic. The personal perspective of each?performer - directors, librettists, producers,?writers, performers - is explicitly located in a?community and the book offers a series of case?studies detailing socially engaged work that aligns?with concepts of performance and community.
Binding: Hardback