Performance Research Volume 27 Issue 5

On Solidarity

Issue editors: Noyale Colin and Stefanie Sachsenmaier

ISSN: 1352-8165 (2023) 27:5

This special issue critically examines the notion of solidarity from and within the field of performance. Solidarity as a concept is ethically vacuous and in need of a clear ethical and political agenda. This issue specifically addresses questions concerning the ways that solidarity is ‘performed’ and the kinds of contributions the field of performance can make in working towards social equality. Across the various contributions, the issue sketches out the ways that solidarity is practised in and through performance as a potential generative force for social change. In discussing situated practices within various socio-political contexts, it examines a variety of solidary formations and bindings, such as within racial and religious minority groups, as well as solidarity existing across difference. It offers discussions of the ways solidarity is performed in colonial contexts, in post-disaster relief work, as well as in local activist groups.

 

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1 Editorial: On Solidarity

NOYALE COLIN AND STEFANIE GABRIELE

SACHSENMAIER

 

4 Solidarity in Performance: Considering activist processes in

neoliberal times

STEFANIE GABRIELE SACHSENMAIER

 

16 Solidarity as a Common Notion: The transindividual 'we’ of

social movements in Southern Europe since 2011

BOJANA CVEJI?

 

26 Conversations and Convergences for Solidarity

YOUNGSOOK CHOI, CIAN DAYRIT, ANNIE JAEL KWAN

AND CUI YIN MOK

 

35 Who is Afraid of Mourning? Mourning as a site of solidarity in

South Asia

BRAHMA PRAKASH

 

45 Theatre and Solidarity among the Transnational Alevi

Community: Memory, trauma and political economy

RÜYA KALINTA?

 

54 Utopian Performatives Matter: Creating solidarity with the

Korean/Japanese diaspora

BOMI CHOI

 

64 Defiant Joy and Care-Based Solidarity in Puerto Rican

Theatre

COLLEEN RUA

 

74 Confronting Coloniality’s Unpayable Debts: (Per)Forming

solidarity in a settler society

REBECCA STRUCH

 

85 Moving Together: Building a spirit of solidarity through sitespecific

performance in post-Katrina New Orleans

WESTON TWARDOWSKI

 

96 Becoming Us: Finding solidarity across difference

JACKY LANSLEY WITH FERGUS EARLY, JREENA GREEN,

ESTHER HUSS, INGRID MACKINNON AND TIM TAYLOR

 

111 Performing Solidarity

NOYALE COLIN

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REVIEWS

125 Sensation and Sensibility: Ron Athey’s archive of feeling

LAUREN DELAND

 

126 Reorientations and Reckonings in Response to Wild Weather

ALEXANDRA TÁLAMO

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128 Notes on Contributors