Gazed At: Stories of a Mortal Body
Run time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Written and Performed by Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock
Directed by Frank P. Trimble
filmed for the Plenary performance for the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. It was internationally live-streamed from Leutze Hall at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, 22 May 2021. It was viewed in real time from 4 continents (North America, South America, Australia, and Europe)
Script: Gazed At: Stories of a Mortal Body (by Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock)
Artist statement: Managing the Able-Bodied Gaze: The Complicated, Risky Decision to Perform Disabled Identity in Autoethnographic Performance (by Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock, Frank P. Trimble, and Evan Scott-Pollock)
Forum
A Response to Gazed At: Stories of a Mortal Body by Dr. Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock (by Peter Joseph Gloviczki)
Gazed With: A Relational Response to/with Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock's Gazed At: Stories of a Mortal Body (by Lore/tta LeMaster & Drew Finney)
Directing Time's Arrow: A Response to Gazed At: Stories of a Mortal Body (by Keith Nainby and Julie Cosenza)
Response to Gazed At: Stories of a Mortal Body (by Patricia A. Suchy)
» Julie Cosenza is a Performance Studies scholar-practitioner. Their research interests lie at the intersections of queer theory and critical disability studies. With an interdisciplinary background in Theatre Arts, Women and Gender Studies, and Communication Studies, their research and performance activism works to subvert dominant notions of normative embodiment.
» Drew Finney (they/them) is a graduate student in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Their current work focuses on social movements, disability, and resistance.
» Peter Joseph Gloviczki (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Mass Communication, 2012) examines representation in the digital age. He is particularly interested in the ways that memorialization and mediated narration either hold space for or obscure voices that are most often othered or excluded in mediated discourses. He works as Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Broadcasting and Journalism at Western Illinois University. He also serves as an assistant editor of the Journal of Loss and Trauma (Taylor & Francis). Gloviczki is active in both the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the Carolinas Communication Association (CCA). His first book is Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media (Palgrave Mac-millan, 2015) and his second book is Mediated Narration in a Digital Age: Storying the Media World (University of Nebraska Press, 2021).
» Lore/tta LeMaster, Ph.D. (she/they) lives, loves, and creates on stolen Akimel O'otham and Piipaash land currently called Arizona. She is assistant professor of critical/cultural communication studies in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Her scholarship engages the intersectional constitution of cultural difference with particular focus on queer and trans of color life, art, and embodiment. She is a fulltime care-taker, worldmaker, and avid eater of donuts and tacos.
» Keith Nainby is professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. His research interests include critical communication pedagogy, philosophy of communication, and performance studies. His most recent publications include Bob Dylan in Performance: Song, Stage, and Screen (with John M. Radosta), a chapter in Polyvocal Bob Dylan, and two introductory books on communication (with Deanna L. Fassett).
» Evan Scott-Pollock, PhD, is a senior lecturer of physics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. As a scientist, he never imagined his publication journey would include creating digital backdrops for Julie-Ann's shows after co-teaching interdisciplinary courses on robots and culture and discovery and persuasion with her, but our academic paths take us in unexpected directions. He has loved helping Julie-Ann's story become accessible to non-academic audiences, particularly his and Julie-Ann's kids who helped create art for the backdrop. He's never missed one of her shows and is honored to be a part of this one. He'd like to thank Mr. Mages, his art teacher from high school who always told him that he had an eye for art and there was no aesthetic problem he couldn't pragmatically solve using his natural ability to assess the world. He knows that Mr. Mages would love the backdrop for Gazed At.
» Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her research and performance work focus on Personal Narrative as Performance of Identity in Daily Life with a focus on stigmatized embodiment. She is the director of UNCW Performance Studies which includes the UNCW Storytellers, UNCW Hawk Tale Players, and the Just Us Performance Troupe for Social Justice that perform annually. She also directs UNCW Performance Ethnography that most recently staged narratives from her current research project: Seizing: Personal Stories of Living with Seizures. Scott-Pollock is the recipient of the National Communication Association's Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies, Ethnographic Article of the Year Award, Best Ethnographic Book Award, the Best Book Chapter Award, and the Outstanding IDEA Engagement Award. She is also the recipient of the Donald H. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education. When she is not performing, researching, writing or teaching, she enjoys spending time near the water with her husband Evan and their 5 kids, Tony, Vinny, Nico, Theo and Rosalie. She would like thank Evan, Tony, Vinny, Nico Theo, and Rosalie, Frank Trimble, Rick Olsen, David Pernell, and Robert Seagle for their support in making this performance happen.
» Patricia A. Suchy is HopKins Professor of Performance Studies and Director of the Screen Arts Program at Louisiana State University.
» Frank P. Trimble is a professor in the UNCW Department of Communication Studies. He served as Department Chair [1994-2007] and then Interim Chair in the Department of Theatre [2009-2011]. Trimble earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Speech Communication from Southern Illinois University. Primary teaching areas are organizational communication, performance studies, public address, and senior capstone. Research and professional activities encompass stage and screen acting, directing, choreography, script writing, music composition, and producing. Original musical plays include Fly Wright! - The Story of Two Brothers, On A Nutrition Mission!, Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, and EXTRA! EXTRA! The Musical. Among his video projects are HIV-Stigma in Five Voices, Beneath the Airlie Oak, and PREA Training Video for Youth. Trimble is recipient of several honors as an author/composer, performer, director, and instructor, including the UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching and J. Marshall Crews Distinguished Faculty Award.
