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OverviewThis book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as recovery-engaged. Focusing on examples of practice from a growing movement of UK-based recovery arts practitioners and performers, it highlights a unique approach to performance that infuses an understanding of lived experiences of addiction and recovery with creative practice. It offers a philosophy of being in recovery that understands lived experience, and performance practice, as a dynamic system of interrelations with the human and nonhuman elements that make up the societal settings in which recovery communities struggle to exist. It thereby frames the process of recovery, and recovery-engaged performance, as an affective ecology – a system of messy connections. Building upon ideas from posthumanist research on addiction, cultural theory on identity and new materialist interpretations of performance practice, it considers how such contemporary theory might offer additional ways of thinking and doing arts practice with people affected by addiction. The discussion highlights the distinct aesthetics, ethics and politics of this area of performance practice. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in Applied Theatre and Critical Arts and Mental Health studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cathy SloanPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.400kg ISBN: 9781032220727ISBN 10: 1032220724 Pages: 122 Publication Date: 25 April 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Assembling Atmospheres of Recovery through Artistic Practice Chapter 1: Creating Spaces of Potentiality through Collaborative Theatre-making Chapter 2: Facilitating Recovery-engaged Performance Atmospheres Chapter 3: Objects of Addiction and Recovery in Artistic Practice Chapter 4: Place in Recovery-engaged Performances Chapter 5: Sustaining Recovery Connections through Creative Kinship Coda: Addiction Recovery Arts Network IndexReviewsAuthor InformationCathy Sloan is a Senior Lecturer in Applied and Socially Conscious Theatre at the University of West London. She is co-founder of the Addiction-Recovery Arts network and Performing Recovery magazine. Her artistic practice specialises in a recovery-engaged ethos of collaborative theatre-making, specifically with addressing lived experiences addiction and associated wellbeing issues. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |