Performance Research Volume 23 Issue 1
On Children
Issue editors: Adele Senior and The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2018) 23:1
On Children features critical analyses and practice-research interrogations on the politics and aesthetics of children in performance. It gathers new insights from international researchers and artists who work with children and seeks to draw up some of the epistemological and ontological borders of the child and childhood in relation to both historical and contemporary conceptualizations of children. Moving beyond well-established pedagogical paradigms of children’s participation in performance within the field, the issue poses questions of adult–child transvestism; queering children; the political and cultural rights of children; children as activists and collaborators; and children and radical immanence. Transnational in scope, with contributions from Australia, Canada, Greece, India, Italy, the Netherlands, the USA and the UK, this issue charts the multifaceted work of children in a wide range of performance practices as well as corresponding theoretical approaches across the fields of philosophy, gender studies, psychoanalysis, childhood studies, feminism, disability studies and political theory. On Children opens up new ways of working with and critically reflecting on children in performance.
On Children : Editorial
Adele Senior, Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent
pp. 1 - 4
Child & Co : In the company of your own making
Alan Read
pp. 5 - 23
‘Build Your Own Keynote’, Child & Co : In the company of your own making
Neal Anderson, Hedda Fletcher-Watson, Minny Fletcher-Watson, Elisabeth Anna Mastrokalou, Elisabeth Anna Mastrokalou, Lili Osborne
pp. 24 - 25
‘Age Transvestism’ in Contemporary Performance and Live Art With Children
Adele Senior
pp. 26 - 36
Delicate Faces, Virtuosic Bodies : Imagined childhood in Gotipua performances
Krittika Mondal
pp. 37 - 43
So Cute, So Creepy : Children undoing the human in Het Hamilton Complex
Isis Germano
pp. 44 - 51
Children’s Queered Voicings : Questions of (voiced) power
Yvon Bonenfant
pp. 52 - 60
Children, Performance and Ecology
Sarah Hopfinger
pp. 61 - 67
The Errant Method as a ‘Children’s Art Theatre’
Chiara Guidi, Cristina Ventrucci
pp. 68 - 75
Do Algorithms Dance? Viral Kids and Contagious Scripts : The infantile logic of spreadable media
Bryoni Trezise
pp. 76 - 84
Lookout [artist's pages]
Andy Field
pp. 85 - 88
SOUR VS SOUR [artist's pages]
Hannah Jickling, Helen Reed, Big Rock Candy Mountain
pp. 89 - 90
Haunting Dreams of a Wild Future : or What children have to teach us about politics
Gigi Argyropoulou
pp. 91 - 97
A Plea for Transgenerational Research in Live Art
Sibylle Peters, Theatre of Research
pp. 98 - 101
How to Talk About Gender Equality With a 9‑year-old : Performing feminist values for children
Elena Marchevska
pp. 102 - 108
The Child as Art Object in Tino Sehgal’s Ann Lee, Ann Lee & Marcel and This Progress : A reflection
Antje Hildebrandt
pp. 109 - 112
Open Your Eyes : Working with my children on Sit with me for a moment and remember
Michael Pinchbeck
pp. 113 - 116
Afterword : Children ruin everything!
Gary Anderson
pp. 117 - 124
Notes on Contributors
pp. 125 - 126
