‘Rated RX’: Book Review
Lucy Weir reviews Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan (Ohio State University Press, 2020) edited by Yetta Howard. One of art history’s most frustrating tropes is that of its invisible woman. Linda
The Last Breath Society (Coughing Coffin)
Playwright and filmmaker Ash Kotak reviews Martin O’Brien’s performance installation ‘The Last Breath Society (Coughing Coffin)’. Deciding to go to ‘The Last Breath Society (Coughing Coffin)’ at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, created
‘Performance, Medicine and the Human’: Book Review
Maria Patsou reviews Performance, Medicine and the Human (Bloomsbury Methuen, 2020) by Alex Mermikides.
‘Archiving an Epidemic’: Book Review
Louisa Hann reviews Robb Hernández’s Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Avant-Garde (New York: New York University Press, 2019). The broad and ever-expanding domain of HIV/AIDS arts and performance scholarship has faced
The Problem of Queer Sex and AIDS Theatre
Ash John discusses tensions between representing sexual desire and the moral histories of HIV/AIDS in contemporary AIDS theatre. What we think of now as the AIDS Crisis has become both a cultural and historical
The Gendered Spectacle of Suffering
Lucy Weir explores the gendered nature of critical responses to on-stage violence I am an art historian by training, though my expertise lies in performance, from dance and theatre to live art. Throughout my
The [Dis]appearance of Hysteria
Performance artist Professor Laura González on paying attention to the hysteric utterance Hysteria is a condition that has been diagnosed since before Hippocrates’ time. In Ancient Egypt, a papyrus recorded an illness in which
Neurology Meets Geomorphology: “Panarchy (2): Rivearthings”, a Performance Project
Theatre practitioner Rachel Clive discusses a performance project which explores crossovers between neurology and geomorphology. Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed in the first place to consider the seasons of the
‘Found Performance’: Reflections on an undisciplinary symposium exploring aesthetic methodologies in health care and medicine
‘Found Performance’: An undisciplinary symposium exploring aesthetic methodologies in health care and medicine. Studio Theatre, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, June 15th 2018. Report by co-chairs Alex Mermikides and Stuart Wood What happens if