PERFORMANCE RESEARCH
VOL.27 ISSUE 1
ON BIOPOLITICS

Editor: Simon Donger,
Eve Katsouraki
Published by Routledge
146 pages
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2023) 27:1
Softcover

Price: 95 lei


For Foucault, biopolitics and biopower concern the management of populations seen as machines for production wherein increased productivity across domains is organized unequally with the production of wealth focused on certain sectors (industrial, military, pharmaceutical, etc.) over others. This themed edition critically examines numerous problems resulting from an organization of power anchored in ideological taxonomies of biological life in relation to performance. Our starting hypothesis urgently asks whether biological life—having been captured by the field of power—has become an essential issue of control under the premises of care and progress, with various critical implications attached, as recently seen in the face of the SARS-CoV 2 pandemic.

CONTENTS:

p.1 Vulnerable Paths to Freedom
SIMON DONGER AND EVE KATSOURAKI

p.7 Inscribing Bodily Narratives: Four-fold structure of biopower in the Festival of Spring and Flowers
ECE KONUK AND V. ŞAFAK UYSAL

p.19 Police: Choreographing demobilisation
MARC VILLANUEVA MIR

p.27 Breaking Bureaucracy: Law, performing chronopolitics and the logic of terror in Aotearoa-New Zealand’s Te Urewera 2007 raids
RYAN HARTIGAN

p.38 Performing Disidentification and Disrupting Neoliberal Multiculturalism in HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness
NIMALAN YOGANATHAN

p.48 Marriage in Death and the Cyberspace of Feminist Intervention in Contemporary China
YIZHOU HUANG

p.55 The Transindividual Act of Self-Burning
BOJANA CVEJIĆ

p.64 Performing Viral Resistance
ANTHONY KUBIAK

p.73 Mette’s Pharmacy: An immunitary detour into contaminated publics
EYLÜL FIDAN AKINCI

p.83 Performing Livelier Biosecurity in Human–Candida Artistic Encounters
OLGA TIMURGALIEVA

p.93 On the Political Biology of Eating and Performing (with) Food
STEPHEN LOO

p.105 Performative Scores in Pandemic Times
ANDREAS LØPPENTHIN AND DORTE BJERRE JENSEN

p.115 The Political Theatre of Dirty Hands in the UK Government Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
MOIRA S. LEWITT

p.122 Biopolitical Animation: A lockdown reading of Mandel’s Station Eleven
GRAHAM WOLFE

p.131 minkfestival.com: An online festival about the zoo of the pandemic
KATERINA SOTIRIOU AND ELENI TIMPLALEXI

REVIEWS

p.139 Ballet, Biopolitics and the Relevance of History
MADISON MAINWARING

p.140 The 'Squishy Science' of Theatre and the Post-Relativistic Universe
JONATHAN W. MARSHALL

p.142 Towards an Ecodramaturgical Human
TALLEY MURPHY

p.143 Activating Specimens
MIKE VANDEN HEUVEL

145 Notes on Contributors