Performance Research Volume 23 Issue 6
On Generosity
Issue editors: Laurie Beth Clark & Michael Peterson
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2018) 23:6
On Generosity offers critical examinations of the ethics and practices of generosity, as well as generosity’s inherent performativity. Without recourse to a naïve faith in its potential, but also without devolving into cynicism about its limits, this volume takes a fresh look at how generosity appears in performance and how generosity is performed. Contributors analyse practices and discourses of generosity in political and economic interventions, in everyday life, in social practice art and as represented in theatrical performances. Generosity is considered as a performative relation, and the volume includes enquiries into the generosity and generativity that may lie at the heart of performance itself. This is amplified in a special showcase section, ‘Cabinet of Generosities’, which proliferates examples of performance works that engage generosity as practice and as theme.
Editorial
Laurie Beth Clark, Michael Peterson
pp. 1 - 6
A Rhapsody For You
Helen Paris
pp. 7 - 11
To Offer/To Exchange : A conversation
Lauren van Haaften-Schick, Charles Simonds
pp. 12 - 19
Toxic Colonialism and the Gesture of Generosity
Jisha Menon
pp. 20 - 24
To Be Undone
Patrick Anderson
pp. 25 - 34
Whole Parts : On rupture and the other side of generosity [artists' pages]
Jeannine Shinoda
pp. 35 - 39
Have I Done Enough? : Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton’s culture of generosity
Laura MacDonald
pp. 40 - 49
Performing Philanthropy from Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates
Alisa Zhulina
pp. 50 - 57
Radical Care : Performative generosity and generativity in Third Theatre
Jane Turner, Patrick Campbell
pp. 58 - 64
Assister au Spectacle [artists' pages]
Julia-Kristina Bauer, Carl Lavery
pp. 65 - 68
The Gift of Cake : Baking together in performance
Jenny Lawson
pp. 69 - 73
Even Better than the Real Thing : Economies of ontological authenticity in socially engaged art practice
Ciaran Smyth
pp. 74 - 79
Performing Labour’s (Non)Futures : Universal basic income and the monetary imagination
Christian Riley Nagler
pp. 80 - 89
Contagion as Method : Generating stages of enunciation
Anyely Marín Cisneros, Rebecca Close
pp. 90 - 92
Cabinet of Generosities (cont)
Clara Rocha
pp. 93 - 120
Cabinet of Generosities (cont.)
Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Nick Kline, Tomaž Krpič, Kirsty Máté, Kirsty Máté, Walmeri Ribeiro, Arianna Richardson
pp. 93 - 120
Cabinet of Generosities
Cristiane Bouger, Joseph Connelly, Carolyn Defrin, Mark Flisher, Mark Flisher, Richard Gough, Mark Harvey
pp. 93 - 120
Letter to the Editors [artists’ pages]
Mick Douglas, Amaara Raheem
pp. 121 - 124
Notes on Contributors
pp. 125 - 126
