Terror on Tour: Borders, Detours, and Contingencies

Edited by Paul Antick & Ariane de Waal




By Way of an Introduction    [essay/pdf]
Ariane de Waal & Paul Antick

Terror and the Sublime in the So-Called Anthropocene    [essay/pdf]
Gene Ray

Boat to Bulldozer: The Abstraction of Home    [soundscape/mp3 & essay/pdf]
Jo Langton

Photography, Borders and the Fear of the 'Racialised Other'     [essay/pdf]
Antigoni Memou

"We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us": On the Becoming Nomadic of the post-9/11 Spectator    [essay/pdf]
Elisabeth Massana

Je suis Smith: A Report on Europe     [installation/pdf]
Smith & Willing

Selfies at the Border: A Terror Management Reading    [essay/pdf]
Claire Hampton

Monuments of Terrorism: (De)Selecting Memory and Symbolic Exchange at the Interface Between Westminster and Raqqa    [essay/pdf]
Theodore Price

Disappaering Acts    [video & essay/pdf]
Yael Flexer & Nic Sandiland



<notes on contributors>

» Paul Antick is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. His work has appeared in various publications, including Journal of Visual Culture, Fashion Theory Russia, Transcultural Montage, Informal Architectures, Memory and Securitization in Contemporary Europe, and Photographies. His exhibition and performance work has been supported by outlets in Europe, North America and Asia, including Belfast Exposed (UK), John Hansard Gallery (UK), Walter Philips Gallery (Canada), and Galeria Rusz (Poland). His most recent project 'Smith in Belfast', a radiophonic ethnodrama, produced with Jo Langton, aired on Resonance FM in 2017. He is a co-founder of the Terror and the Tour international research collective.

» Ariane de Waal is an Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). She is the author of Theatre on Terror: Subject Positions in British Drama (De Gruyter, 2017). Her most recent publications have addressed cultural responses to the 'war on terror', neoliberal citizenship, and post-Brexit racisms. Her current research project examines the navigation of cutaneous borders in Victorian dermatology and literature.

» Yael Flexer is co-artistic director of Flexer & Sandiland. She originally formed the company as Choreographer in Residence at The Place Theatre, London. She has created 13 full-length productions, touring throughout the UK and internationally. Flexer & Sandiland have also been commissioned to create live/digital works for Brighton Festival, Sadler's Wells, South East Dance, and Barbican Centre. The company recently completed research for a new intergenerational work Acting Our Age as well as touring Curiouser for family audiences co-produced with dybwikdans, Norway. The sited smartphone app The Hum (2017) toured to cities across the UK also as part of Without Walls. Disappearing Acts (2016) performed in the UK and internationally alongside the digital installation Weighting (2015). Past touring productions include Weightless (2012-14), The Living Room (2010-2011) and the installations Trip Hazard (2013) and Gravity Shift (2010). Yael leads professional training & commissions in the UK and internationally. She completed her PhD in 2013 and co-directs mapdance, the University of Chichester's postgraduate repertoire touring company.

» Claire Hampton is a PhD candidate at Brunel University London and Senior Lecturer at University of Wolverhampton. Her current research employs a performance studies paradigm to interrogate selfie taking, considering the ontology and performativity of selfies from a feminist materialist perspective. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include performance studies perspectives on subjectivity, trauma studies, gender studies, cyber studies and popular culture.

» Jo Langton spends her life researching, recording and experimenting with sound and music. Having trained as a musician then sound engineer, she is interested in the point of convergence between music and sound technology. She has worked as a recording engineer for radio and music since 2000. She is also a composer/sound designer of experimental music and sound art and her work has been shown at the Museum of London, Tower Bridge exhibition centre, Tate Modern, and played on BBC Radio 3, Channel 4 and Resonance FM. She is currently researching a PhD on the work of electroacoustic experimental composers Beatriz Ferreyra, Eliane Radigue, Delia Derbyshire and Teresa Rampazzi, which focusses on their methods for creating new electronic sound material in the pre-digital analogue studios of the 1960s and early 1970s.

» Elisabeth Massana is a Lecturer in the English Literature Section of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies at the University of Barcelona, where she is currently finishing her PhD thesis on contemporary British theatre, terror and queer methodologies. She is a member of the research group Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona and a co-investigator for the four-year research project "British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and the EU European Regional Development Fund (FFI2016-75443).

» Antigoni Memou (PhD, Courtauld Institute of Art, MA University of Southampton) is Senior Lecturer in Visual Theories at the School of Arts and Digital Industries at the University of East London (UK). She has published in several volumes and journals, including Third Text, Philosophy of Photography, Photographies, Art and the Public Sphere. She is the author of Photography and Social Movements: From the Globalisation of the Movement (1968) to the Movement Against Globalisation (2001) (Manchester University Press, 2013) and co-author of Resist! The 1960s Protests, Photography and Visual Legacy (Lannoo, 2018).

» Theodore Price is a London-based artist, curator and researcher whose practice is located at the intersection between art and politics. He is an Associate Lecturer at The University of Roehampton in Media, Culture and Language, Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths University in Art and Politics and a AHRC-funded PhD candidate at the Centre for Curatorial Studies, University of Essex. Since 2013, Price has primarily focused on the relationship between aesthetics and emergency politics via the curatorial project COBRA RES, which examines the aesthetics of emergency events as defined by the UK Government's emergency response committee COBR.

» Gene Ray is Associate Professor in the CCC Research Master Programme at HEAD — Genève / Geneva School of Art and Design. He writes about the cultural politics of memory, political theory and Marxist aesthetics, in relation to planetary meltdown.

» Nic Sandiland is a UK-based artist whose work explores new choreographic forms through installation, performance and film. He originally trained as an electronics engineer before studying dance and performance in the late 80s. Over the past 30 years he has made movement-based works focusing on simple pedestrian choreography. He is particularly interested in engaging the everyday movements of the viewer in a choreographic context through digital technology. Recent work has drawn on cinematic techniques, such as slow motion and moving camera mechanisms as ways to elevate the mundane and often overlooked choreography of everyday life. He has made work in London, Europe and South East Asia and has presented at theatres, art galleries, and many unusual venues. His film work has been shown worldwide and on UK TV (Channel 4). His work has been commissioned by the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Arts Centre, Sadler's Wells Theatre, and The Brighton Festival. Nic is currently a senior lecturer in fine art at Middlesex University.

» Smith & Willing live in London. Smith is a photographer. Willing is a 'citizen anthropologist.' For more information, visit smithandwilling.com.









Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (issn: 1557-2935)

editor-in-chief: Michael LeVan (Washington State University, Vancouver)
managing editor: Greg Langner (California State University, Los Angeles)
the city editor: Daniel Makagon (DePaul University)
digital horizons editors: Craig Gingrich-Philbrook (Southern Illinois University) and Daniel (Jake) Simmons
   (Missouri State University)
performance & pedagogy editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)
book review editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)
banner/issue image (Red Route, 2015) by Theodore Price

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