Mess and Contemporary Performance: Complexity, Containment, and Collapse

Author:   Harriet Curtis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032034195


Pages:   158
Publication Date:   19 November 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Mess and Contemporary Performance: Complexity, Containment, and Collapse


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This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains. Using a queer feminist and intersectional critical framework, this book analyses how established and emerging artists mess with and mess up capitalist tendencies towards productivity, usefulness, and efficiency. Whilst the materiality of mess provides a starting point and emerges in many of the works analysed, the implications of mess as related to vulnerability, shame, and resistance occupy a larger space in the book’s chapters. These performances are messy not only in content or style; they reveal critical readings of how perceived-as messy' subjects and practices are shaped and regulated. In attending to the public, personal, and structural uses of mess, and emphasising the critical possibilities of what might otherwise be skipped over or cleared away, this book develops and opens out shared understandings of mess as creative chaos and as a practice of political action or change. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars incontemporary theatre, art, and performance.

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Author:   Harriet Curtis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032034195


ISBN 10:   103203419
Pages:   158
Publication Date:   19 November 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: locating mess 2. Mess, materiality, and labour 3. Holding space: mess, complexity, and containment 4. Hot mess: vulnerability and exhibitionism in performance 5. The uses and misuses of mess 6. Conclusion: mess, exhaustion, and collapse

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Harriet Curtis is Senior Lecturer in Drama at De Montfort University, Leicester.

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