Improvised Futures: Encountering the Body in Performance

Winner, 2022 Printed Book of the Year (English), Publishing Next

In an atmosphere of growing authoritarianism, how can we draw attention to performance as a transaction of sensorial agency - the right to be seen, heard, recognized - the right to be palpable? Improvised Futures attempts to frame performance as doing, as fraught negotiations of agency and identity. As it considers the performative effect of a range of ideas, actions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8194534828
• ISBN13: 9788194534822
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Tulika Books
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.1"