Looking Back at 10 years of Performance Matters!
Please join the inaugural conversation for the virtual speaker series “Looking Back at 10 Years of Performance Matters” on Tuesday January 14that 9:30 CST/10:30 AM EST (zoom link).
As the new co-editors of Performance Matters, Coleman Nye and Lily Mengesha are reflecting on the journal’s impact in the field of performance studies. They will be joined by the fabulous co-editors of the most recent special issue, “Performing (in Place: Space, Relation, Action” (2024), Melissa Poll and Jenn Cole. The conversation will also reflect on their earlier special issue, “Performing (in) Place: Moving on/with the Land” (2021).
Performing (in) Place: Space, Relation, Action:
The special issue “Performing (in) Place: Space, Relation, Action” focuses on artistic expressions that create renewed awareness of the networks of relations that create territory in the context of Indigenous sovereignties and decolonization. Authors and artists in this issue offer critical engagement with notions of place making: ways in which our creative actions animate shared spaces as well as how place animates us. In this follow-up to Performing (in) Place: Moving on/with land, the editors (Jenn Cole and Melissa Poll) are interested in actions that exist in addition to/beyond spoken acknowledgments of territory and how these actions enable Indigenous people, other than human kin, and Settler collaborators to lift each other up in resurgent and decolonization efforts.
Performing (in) Place: Moving on/With the Land:
This special double issue features works that reflect on “walking” (or moving) practices that have been enacted in recognition of contributors' relationships to the ancestral Indigenous lands and territories they occupy, arrive to, or originate from.
