(essays & projects)

Form's Connection to Political Possibility in Noise Performance    [essay/pdf]
Rebecca Himelstein

On the Medium [essays/pdf]
Jamie N. Davidson
        a. A Carta Tá Dizendo / On the Medium: Embodiment, Textuality, and Performativity
        b. Deserto

Performance on the Doll's Head Trail
Nicole Costantini
        a. Performance on the Doll's Head Trail: Co-Creating Experience Through
          Participatory Installation Art
    [essay/pdf]
        b. Participatory Art installations on the Doll's Head Trail    [photo essay/html ]
           with Alexandra Fincher

Making "Space" for Suicide: Radical Depictions of Suicide's Potential
[essay/pdf]
Alison Parks

Re-membering Family: Recollections of a Coming-of-Age    [essay/pdf]
Jennifer Woolley Barone

"Humanity First": Performing Terror in Bioware's Mass Effect    [essay/pdf & video clips]
M. Landon

(book review)

Review of Performance Activism: Precursors and Contemporary Pioneers (by Dan Friedman)
    [essay & videos]
Sandra Paola López Ramírez



<notes on contributors>

» Jennifer Woolley Barone is a PhD student in Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. Her scholarly interests engage questions surrounding how publics respond to precarity, the utility of public emotion, and the frames of justify in/attention to inhumane conditions or injustice. Through rhetorical and performative inquiries, her research hopes to emphasize relationality and interdependence in both personal and political action.

» Nicole Costantini, Ph.D., is a performance scholar and practitioner who teaches communication at a college in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on the intersections of identity, space and place..

» Jamie Davidson is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Performance Studies Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. Her research regards mediumship, dance and spirit possession in Afro-Brazilian religions. A dancer and ethnographer, her creative practice also involves experimental and performative modes of writing about/with/as embodied practices. Her work also appears in Anthropology and Humanism and Current Anthropology.

» Alexandra Fincher is an artist and writer from Atlanta, GA. She earned a BA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2019 and currently works in digital distribution for public television.

» Rebecca Himelstein is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar who lives, works, and keeps bees in Chicago, IL.

» M. Landon is a PhD student in Theatre Studies and Game Studies & Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a dramaturg and game historian, they analyze gaming through a performance studies lens, arguing that contemporary games utilize theatrical methodologies to envision and enact the future. [website]

» Sandra Paola López Ramírez (MFA, EdM) is an interdisciplinary dancemaker, performance activist, and mother. Her work radically integrates her creative process and her community organizing efforts creating small and large scale works that activate public spaces, non-traditional performance venues, and natural landscapes. She is currently faculty in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at El Paso and is the Faculty Liaison for Community Engaged Practices in the Arts at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts on campus.

» Alison Parks is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stetson University. Their research uses the frameworks of contemporary political theory and queer theory to examine the effects of a life lived in proximity to suicide.









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

editor-in-chief: Michael LeVan (Washington State University, Vancouver; Temple University)
managing editor: Greg Langner (Antelope Valley College)
the city editor: Patrick Duggan (Northumbria University)
performance & pedagogy editor: Robert Gutierrez-Perez (California State University, San Marcos)
performance wunderkammer: a cabinet of curiosities editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)
book review editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)
banner/issue image by Michael LeVan

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