Performance Research Volume 21 Issue 5
On Trans/Performance
Issue editors: Amelia Jones
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2016) 21:5
In the special issue On Trans/Performance authors address a range of intersections between trans- (implying exceeding, moving towards, changing; going across, over or beyond) and the performative (saying as doing, or that which performs something while articulating it). The trans- implies movement and fluidity while the performative implies action and opens up questions of agency; together, they point to innovative ways of thinking about topical questions such as how we live and take action, how we identify ourselves and others, how we write history, and how we approach local versus global tensions and intersections. In this issue articles and thought pieces, as well as artists’ projects attending to the interrelation between trans- concepts and performativity, allow for the emergence of new insights regarding how performance theory works across fields such as language (translation), history (transformation or change), gender/sexuality (transgender and transsexuality or transidentification), and culture (transnational).
Introduction : Trans-ing performance
Amelia Jones
pp. 1 - 11
An Object that Belongs to No One : Theorizing performativity in relation to trans-
Tawny Andersen
pp. 12 - 16
Translatio
Kélina Gotman
pp. 17 - 20
Reperformance and Transhistoricity : The Danse[s] dans la neige by Françoise Sullivan and by Luis Jacob
Anne Bénichou
pp. 21 - 34
After Performance : On transauthorship
After Performance Working Group
pp. 35 - 36
Transgenealogies of Portuguese Performance Art
Cláudia Madeira
pp. 37 - 46
Transnational Tongan Life
Teena Brown, Richard Pamatatau
pp. 47 - 48
Trans-embodiment : Embodied practice in puppet and material performance
Alissa Mello
pp. 49 - 58
The Human and the Chatterbot : Tracing the potential of transdimensional performance
Madison Mainwaring
pp. 59 - 64
Trans-ing
Stefania Mylona
pp. 65 - 67
Going Ape : Simian feminism and transspecies drag
Joshua Williams
pp. 68 - 77
Transmaterial Becoming
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker
pp. 78 - 80
Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues : Transactions and translations
Lisa Lewis, Aparna Sharma
pp. 81 - 84
A Dictionary in the Archives : Translating and transcribing silenced histories in French and Wendat
VK Preston
pp. 85 - 88
Decolonizing Immersion : Translation, spectatorship, rasa theory and contemporary British dance
Royona Mitra
pp. 89 - 100
No pressure, but find me a bed out there
Tara Fatehi Irani
pp. 101 - 106
The Transtemporality of Online Performance
Christopher Engdahl
pp. 107 - 110
TRANS TIME : Time for trans visibility in contemporary art
Marie-Claude G. Olivier, Audrey Laurin
pp. 111 - 113
Protocol and Performativity : Queer selfies and the coding of online identity
Mikhel Proulx
pp. 114 - 117
Bleed through : an artist project insert
Sean Griffin, Susan Silton, Juliana Snapper
pp. 118 - 118
Myths of Stillness
Johnny Forever Nawracaj
pp. 119 - 122
Transactivism, the Translocal, Art and Performance
Mark W. Rectanus
pp. 123 - 126
Trans-Spectator : The spectator’s bodily participation in Via Negativa’s performance Bi ne bi
Tomaž Krpič
pp. 127 - 130
Tightrope, Translation and Transformation
Stephen Lawson, Aaron Pollard
pp. 131 - 133
When Trans Walks into Action, Mission and Formation
Victoria Stanton, Sylvie Tourangeau, Evelyne Bouchard, Nicole Panneton, Nicole Panneton, Diane Dubeau, Julie Laurin
pp. 134 - 137
Transgressing the Transmission of Performance in La Zona Centro, Mexicali
Dino Dinco
pp. 138 - 139
The Politics of Plants : A botanical exploration of urban transformation
Noémie Despland-Lichtert
pp. 140 - 141
Performing Environments : Site-specificity in medieval and early modern English drama (review)
Roberta Barker
pp. 142 - 144
Showroom : A decade of rapid urban development in Toronto (review)
Teresa Carlesimo
pp. 145 - 147
Notes on Contributors
pp. 148 - 150
