PERFORMANCE RESEARCH
VOL.26 ISSUE 7
ON AIR
Edited by Evelyn O'Malley,
Chloe Preedy
Published by Routledge
180 pages
ISSN 1352-8165
Softcover
Price: 95 ron
Air is a fundamental, life-sustaining aspect of existence. As a mediating element, air also shapes human modes of expression, including performance. Yet the air has not always received the attention it deserves, with its virtual omnipresence paradoxically making this mostly invisible element all too easy to forget. ‘On Air’ considers how performance might encourage more careful attunement to the air. Both breathing and environmental contexts of atmospheric exposure are central to its concerns, with pieces that consider diverse lived experiences and degrees of vulnerability to this element. Various contributors reflect on the specific implications of COVID-19 for understandings of and interactions with the air, while others discuss how performed responses and negotiations might foreground aerial embodiment. Above all, this issue invites reflection on what it might mean for us, as individuals and communities, to live -- and perform -- in the air.
Index:
Editorial: On Air
- EVELYN O'MALLEY AND CHLOE KATHLEEN PREEDY
Tribute to Mike Pearson: Non omnis moriar (Not all of me will die)
- RICHARD GOUGH AND MICHAEL SHANKS
Counter-attacking Pollution in Three Aerial Acts
- WOOD ROBERDEAU
Performing Shared Atmospheres: Museo Aero Solar
- SASHA ENGELMANN
To ‘Hold In-Common’ in the Midst of Clouds’ Drift
- CATERINA ALBANO
Love Is in the Air? Notes from Wales on air vapour as atmospheric affect
- FRANCES WILLIAMS
Breath^work [Artist pages]
- MEGHAN MOE BEITIKS AND KENYA (ROBINSON)
‘This is My Life’: Managing breath in Kirsty Young’s and Cumbernauld Theatre's LipSync (2019) and the COVID-19 pandemic
- MAGGIE INCHLEY
Performances of Exposure and Ethical Spectatorship in Hanna Cormick’s The Mermaid
- MEGAN JOHNSON
Airpocalypse: Cycling as a performative art methodology for investigating air pollution
- CLARE NATTRESS
Air Time [Artist pages]
- NIK WAKEFIELD AND SANDRA ZELLMER
Celestial Bodies in a Viscous Sky: Liquid Sky’s reshaping of aerial space using lasers
- KATE HOLMES
Conversations with an Invisible Partner
- NATALIE ROWLAND
Walking in Air
- EMMANUELLE WAECKERLÉ AND WILL MONTGOMERY
Addressable Volume
- EDITH KOLLATH
Choreographing Breath and Air in Object Performances
- S. R. MAY
On Air and in Breath: Atmospheric ethics of exposure
- VERONICA JIMENEZ BORJA
Signposting the Anthropocene: Air care, poleotolerance and the queering of ecosystem services
- ALEXANDRA R. TOLAND, HARRIET RABE VON FROREICH AND BEATE KÖRNER
Becoming with Wheat: Photosynthesis-Respiration Collaborations [Artist pages]
- AMANDA COUCH
Collective Breath: A conversation between artist Neville Gabie and curator Jeni Walwin
- NEVILLE GABIE AND JENI WALWIN
Playing with Then and Now: The liveness of breath
- ISABEL STOWELL-KAPLAN
From an Atmospheric Point of View: Gustav Metzger in the context of the air war
- GABRIELLA DARIS
Breathing Air into the Archive: Preserving Otobong Nkanga’s performance art
- LOTTE BODE AND TIMMY DE LAET
On Processing the Texts in The Air Journey
-LEENA ROUHIAINEN