Performance Research Volume 22 Issue 5
On Names
Issue editors: Konstantina Georgelou & Janez Janša
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2017) 22:5
Prompted by the pervasive operation of names, which on the one hand act as empty signifiers and on the other ‘fix’ subjects within their cultural and social environments, this issue brings together a variety of contributions that explore the performativity, agency and problematics of names. On Names addresses issues around centring and decentring subjectivities through naming and asks what one can (un)do with names by means of art and performance. Ranging across recent political debates, astronomy, authorship, scholarship, procedures of renaming and artistic pseudonyms, the articles collected in this issue urge us to consider how names ‘capture’ us and at the same time generate different modes of agency and possibilities for political intervention.
Editorial : What Names (Un)do
Konstantina Georgelou, Janez Janša
pp. 1 - 3
‘I am the Donald.’ : On the sound symbolism and symbolic power of powerful names
Marco Deseriis
pp. 4 - 14
Proper Name by Performing the Self : A dramaturgical analysis
Ana Vujanović
pp. 15 - 23
Refresh
Kristin Sue Lucas
pp. 24 - 27
Naming the Cosmos Death : On performance, astronomy and Katie Paterson’s The Dying Star Letters
Felipe Cervera
pp. 28 - 34
Calling the Signifier by its Name : Citational rescue and the politics of ecstatic reception
Swen Steinhäuser
pp. 35 - 43
Spell or Spill It Out : Dismembering a name
Nazlihan Eda Ercin
pp. 44 - 51
To Name or Else
Janez Janša
pp. 52 - 61
Complicating Authorship : Contemporary artists’ names
Nicola McCartney
pp. 62 - 71
Juridical Regulation of a Name Change
Tadej Kovacic
pp. 72 - 79
The Unnaming of ‘Aliass’
Karin Bolender
pp. 80 - 84
How to Do Things with Names and Signatures : On the politics of performative (re)naming
Aldo Milohnić
pp. 85 - 93
The Function of Names in US Presidential Debates : Some recent powerplays
F. L. Blumberg
pp. 94 - 105
Naach, Launda Naach or Bidesiya : Politics of (re)naming
Janeindra Kumar Dost
pp. 106 - 112
On Stealing Viewpoints
Tony Perucci
pp. 113 - 125
Naming and Calling : Missing words
Lynette Hunter
pp. 125 - 127
Missing Names
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
pp. 128 - 137
Art and the Politics of Human Rights after 1945 (review)
Arnaud Kurze
pp. 138 - 140
Notes on Contributors
pp. 141 - 142
