Biopolitics and the Unemployed Body in Applied Performance: Staging Labour, Disrupting Productivity, and Contesting Cate
Exploring two examples, Tangled Feet’s One Million (2013) and Helix Arts’ MindFULL (2013), I contend that applied performance deploys bodily strategies that disrupt the construction of the unemployed in political rhetoric and unsettle rigid definitions of
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Performing Welfare Applied Theatre, Unemployment, and Economies of Participation Sarah Bartley
Contemporary Performance InterActions Series Editors Elaine Aston Lancaster University Lancaster, Lancashire, UK Brian Singleton Samuel Beckett Centre Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Theatre’s performative InterActions with the politics of sex, race and class, with questions of social and political justice, form the focus of the Contemporary Performance InterActions series. Performative InterActions are those that aspire to affect, contest or transform. International in scope, CPI publishes monographs and edited collections dedicated to the InterActions of contemporary practitioners, performances and theatres located in any world context. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14918
Sarah Bartley
Performing Welfare Applied Theatre, Unemployment, and Economies of Participation
Sarah Bartley University of Reading Berkshire, UK
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Acknowledgements
The caring, creative, and politically charged arts practices that intersect with the welfare state have been a constant source of inspiration throughout the writing of this monograph. I would like to thank Rebecca Adamson, Naomi Alexander, Kate Anderson, Alexander Augustus, Richard Barber, Katherine Chandler, Michael Chandler, Nathan Curry, Anna H
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