Performance Paradigm: Journal of Performance & Contemporary Culture

Performance Paradigm: Journal of Performance & Contemporary Culture

PERFORMANCE PARADIGM 6 (JUNE 2010) INTERRUPTIONS: LETTERS TO JIMMIE DURHAM

Introduction
Stephen Muecke

A Stone Pretending to be a Landscape
Valerie Tring

Dear Jimmie Durham, Dear John Citizen: I would like to ask you about contemporary art and politics.
Darren Jorgensen

Vulture and its …
Nikos Papastergiadis

On the train again: apparitions across the Nullarbor (to the spirit, not to the letter of Jimmie Durham)
Hamish Morgan

“Is that a pistol in your pocket…?”: Corral Consciousness and the Performance of Enclosure and Concealment.
Misha Myers

THIS: Message in a Bottle to Jimmie Durham
Kim Satchell

Tall Stories: On poetical and non poetical prose and rhythms in fieldwork notes, July 2003, Colombia
Michael Taussig

I had a Dream in Tropical Islands Resort in Berlin. Was it real?
Stephen Muecke

Interview

The ‘Nervous State’: A Conversation between Jimmie Durham and Mick Taussig
Mick Taussig

Book Reviews

Review of Bertolt Brecht, Meg Mumford (London & New York: Routledge 2009)
Denise Varney

Review of Theatre & series, edited by Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2009- )
Bryoni Trezise

Review of Performative Realism: Interdisciplinary Studies in Art and Media, edited by Rune Gade and Anne Jerslev (Copenhagen: Museum of Tusculanum Press, 2005)
Anna Scheer

Review of To Watch Theatre. Essays on Genre and Corporeality, Rachel Fensham (Brussels, Bern, e.a.: PIE Peter Lang, 2009)
Laura Ginters

Review of The Infinity Machine: Mike Parr’s Performance Art 1971-2005, Edward Scheer (Melbourne: Schwartz City Press 2009) Mike Parr: Performances 1971-2008, Mike Parr (Melbourne: Schwartz City Press 2008)
Adam Geczy

Review of Performance, Ethics, and Spectatorship in a Global Age, Helena Grehan (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009)
Una Chaudhuri

PERFORMANCE PARADIGM 5.2 (OCTOBER 2009) AFTER EFFECTS: PERFORMING THE ENDS OF MEMORY

After Effects: Performing the Ends of Memory. An Introduction to Volume II
Bryoni Trezise

Embodied Spaces of Nation: Performing the National Trauma at Hellfire Pass
Chris Hudson

Coming to Terms with Trauma Tourism
Laurie Beth Clark

Disturbing the Sound of Silence: Towards the Thick Vision of the Long Soviet Silence
Maria Tumarkin

‘Did you mean post-traumatic theatre?’: The vicissitudes of traumatic memory in contemporary postdramatic performances
Karen Jürs-Munby

Ambivalent Bereavements: Embodying Loss in the Twenty-First Century
Bryoni Trezise

Interview

On the Ethics of Non-Disclosure: a Roundtable with Urban Theatre Projects and Collaborators
Bryoni Trezise and Caroline Wake

Book Reviews

Review of Performance Histories, Bonnie Marranca (New York: PAJ Publications, 2008).
Kate Rossmanith

Review of Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance. Graham St John (eds.), (New York & Oxford: Bergham Books, 2008).
Sandra D’Urso

The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art, Petra Kuppers (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
Erin Hefferon

Critical Theory and Performance, eds., Janelle G. Reinelt and Joseph R. Roach (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007)
Jane Goodall

PERFORMANCE PARADIGM 5.1 (MAY 2009) AFTER EFFECTS: PERFORMING THE ENDS OF MEMORY

Introduction to After Effects: Performing the Ends of Memory
Bryoni Trezise and Caroline Wake

After Effects: Performing the Ends of Memory. An Introduction to Volume I
Caroline Wake

Watching Whoopi: The Ethics and Politics of the Ethics of Witnessing
Geraldine Harris

Towards a Phenomenology of the Witness to Pain: Dis/Identification and the Orlanian Other
Christine Stoddard

Identity Politics of Mobility: Kara Walker and Berni Searle
Petra Kuppers

Sentences from the Archive
Jenn Webb

The Accident and the Account: Towards a Taxonomy of Spectatorial Witness in Theatre and Performance Studies
Caroline Wake

Interview

Trauma, Antagonism and the Bodies of Others: a dialogue on delegated performance
Julia Austin with Claire Bishop

Book Reviews

Visuality in the Theatre: The Locus of Looking, Maaike Bleeker (Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillian, 2008)
Peta Tait

Stage Presence, Jane Goodall (London: Routledge, 2008).
Veronica Kelly

Theatre, ecological sanity, and finding Baz Kershaw
Paul Brown

Theorising the Angura Space: avant-garde performance and politics in Japan 1960-2000, Peter Eckersall (Leiden, Brill Academic, 2006)
Michael Cohen

PERFORMANCE PARADIGM 4 (MAY 2008) EMERGENCES: 21ST CENTURY PERFORMANCE

Introduction – Performance and Critical Optimism
Peter Eckersall, Edward Scheer and Helena Grehan

Terrifying Grief
Sam Trubridge

Down and Under, Up and Over: Animalworks by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Meiling Cheng

Mapping Native Flora in NYC: The Chorography of Collaboration
Lise Brenner, Ulrich Lorimer & Katrina Simon

‘Leave No Trace’: The Art of Wasted Space– The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft
Pamela Karantonis

The More I Study Nature: Georgiana Molloy and the Code of Modernity
Angela Campbell

Optimism and Pessimism: Cynthia Hopkins Returns to the Stage as an Alien Mother
Beth Kurkjian

Becoming Human/Artist: Humans Moving in Accord with the Change that Makes the World
Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse

‘Mobility is our goal!’: challenging perceptions towards citizenship, migration and asylum seeking through performative interventions
Anja Kanngieser

The Augmented Theatre in Virtualised Society: See You in Walhalla
Eirini Nedelkopoulou

We Are Cells: BioArt, Semi-Livings, and Visceral Threat
Kate Rossmanith

‘Dragging’ Liveness in the Video Art of The Kingpins
Diana Smith

Embracing a Mediat[is]ed Modernity: An Approach to Exploring Humanity in Posthuman Music
Jeffrey M. Morris

Book Reviews

Judie Christie, Richard Gough, Daniel Watt (eds.), A Performance Cosmology: Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past. London & New York: Routledge, published for the Centre for Performance Research, 2006.
Peter Eckersall

Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin, Rustom Bharucha (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Mika Eglinton

“In Comes I”: Performance, Memory and Landscape, Mike Pearson
Ian Maxwell

Performance and Place, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
David Moody

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion, eds. Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).
Meg Mumford

The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities, (Second Edition), Ramsay Burt (London and New York: Routledge, 2007).
Maggi Phillips

PERFORMANCE PARADIGM 3 (MAY 2007) THE END OF ETHICS? PERFORMANCE, POLITICS AND WAR

Introduction: The End of Ethics?
Edward Scheer

Theatre of/or Truth
Maaike Bleeker

Performing war: ‘military theatre’ and the possibilities of resistance.
Michael Balfour

Rupture in the Surface: Ethics of the Abject
Horit Herman Peled

Is there a gene responsible for our obsession with perfection? Disability, ethics and responsibility
Lalita McHenry

Performance, Politicians, and War: Selling Iraq in the culture war
David A. Williams

Being Near: Visiting the Rwandan genocide memorial site at Murambi, Gikongoro
Jeff Stewart

Interviews

Art And Politics And The Zürcher Theater Spektakel
Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann talks with Margaret Hamilton

Envisioning Ethics Anew
Rustom Bharucha talks with Performance Paradigm

Pathologies of Hope
Baz Kershaw talks with Performance Paradigm

Book Reviews

Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre, Joanne Tompkins
Gay McAuley

Making Theatre in Northern Ireland: Through and Beyond the Troubles, Tom Maguire
Rebecca Pelan

Postdramatic Theatre, Hans-Thies Lehmann, trans. Karen Jürs-Munby
Denise Varney

Performance Reviews

I La Galigo. Directed by Robert Wilson. State Theatre, Melbourne International Arts Festival, 19 – 23 October 2006.
Margaret Hamilton

PERFORMANCE PARADIGM, NUMBER 2 (MARCH 2006) JAPAN AFTER THE 1960S: THE ENDS OF THE AVANT-GARDE.

Introduction: Japan after the 1960s: the ends of the avant-garde
Peter Eckersall and Edward Scheer

On Vernacular Theatre
Satô Makoto, translated by Yuji Sone

Performances of Masculinity in Angura Theatre: Suzuki Tadashi on the Actress and Satô Makoto’s Abe Sada’s Dogs
Yasuko Ikeuchi

Bursting Bodies of Thought: Artaud and Hijikata
Michael Hornblow

Ghosts of Premodernity: Butoh and the Avant-Garde
Shannon C. Moore

Dancing the Elemental Body: Butoh and Body Weather: Interviews with Tanaka Min and Yumi Umiumare
Jonathan Marshall

Translation, Hybridity, and ‘The Real Thing’: Don Kenny’s English Kyôgen
Lisa Kuly

The Spectacle of Woman in Japanese Underground Theatre Posters
Vera Mackie

Off Museum! Performance Art That Turned the Street
Midori Yoshimoto

Ruins of the Future: Yanobe Kenji Revisits Expo ‘70
Gunhild Borggreen

Mapping/Zapping ‘J’ Theatre At The Moment
UCHINO, Tadashi

Book Reviews

Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shûji and Postwar Japan, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei
M. Cody Poulton

Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York, Midori Yoshimoto (New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005)
Mika Eglinton

Alternatives: Debating Theatre Culture in the Age of Con-Fusion, Peter Eckersall, Uchino Tadashi and Moriyama Naoto
Yuji Sone

Event Reviews

Tradition and Innovation: Dance Hakushu 2005. August twelfth through twenty-first, Body Weather Farm, Yamanashi, Japan.
Zack Fuller

PERFORMANCE PARADIGM, NUMBER 1 (MARCH 2005) LIVE ENDS. PERFORMANCE IN THE INFORMATION AGE

Introduction
Edward Scheer and Peter Eckersall

Elements of ‘interactive drama’: Behind the Virtual Curtain of Jupiter Green
Christy Dena

Hacktivism and Machinic Performance
Jon McKenzie

Vibrations in the Air: Performance and Interactive Technics
Andrew Murphie

East meets West: Bunraku, Intermediation and Australian Institutional Conceptions of Interdisciplinarity
Yuji Sone

Theatre of Agencies: The LGB Story
Ray LanGenBach

Interviews

Performing In-Difference E-Interview
Stelarc talks to Edward Scheer

After Liveness: An e-interview
Philip Auslander

Eavesdrop and New Media
David Pledger talks to Rosemary Klich

Performance Reviews

The Politics of Compassion in Theatre and the Economics of Emotions: Alladeen at the 2004 Melbourne International Arts Festival
Peta Tait

Book Reviews

‘What is Installation?’ (Sydney: Power Publications, 2003) Eds Adam Geczy and Benjamin Gennochio
Sam Spurr

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