3213 HOW DO YOU WEAR YOUR GENDER? SOCIAL CHANGE AS A “PERFORMANCE OF THE STRIVING”
8:45 – 10:00 Sunday, February 19 Sendero III
A “performance of striving” is a process of naming, reflecting, and acting in the pursuit of social change. Rather than asking questions and then searching for the answer, a move to understanding social change as a process of almost, not-quite, in-the-pursuit-of performances names injustice on real bodies. Utilizing performance as research, this program places Judith Butler’s often-cited work on gender and performance onto actual flesh to research the merits of gender performativity in an increasingly polarized society. In the wake of a great recession and a widening racial/class divide, this panel strives for an understanding of gender in the service of social change. Engaging dance, song and combinations of movements, gestures, performance, and orality, this panel offers three performances of/on gender in the service of social change.
Participants:
- Robert M. Gutierrez, San Jose State University
- Miranda Olzman, San Francisco State University
- Brittany Chavez, San Jose State University
- Bedilia Ramirez, San Jose State University
Respondent: Amy Kilgard, San Francisco State University
3313 IN TREATMENT: PERFORMING RITUALS OF NORMALCY AND SOCIAL CONTROL
10:15 – 11:30 Sunday, February 19 Sendero III
This interactive, multimedia, ensemble performance is an inquiry into treatment and its relationship to performative practices. Treatment and related themes such as diagnosis, patient narratives of illness and doctor–patient communication are established focal points of research in the performance studies discipline, and performance methodologies provide a vital dimension through which to extend this research.
Participants:
- Sabrina Worsham, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Christine Warda, Chabot College
- Suzanne Pullen, Arizona State University
- Miranda Olzman, San Francisco State University
- Amy K. Kilgard, San Francisco State University
- Allen Conkle, San Francisco State University
- Julie Cosenza, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
3509 CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND BEYOND
1:00 – 2:15 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment E
This panel joins five graduate students together to seek out new strategies and tactics for subverting dominant ideologies surrounding concepts of identity, ownership, religion, capitalism, sexuality, and silence. Originally performed in places and spaces across San Francisco, the artists behind these interventions will blend live performance, visual projection, audio and video to retell these stories. These works, informed by performance artists such as the Yes Men, Reclaim the Streets, Reverend Billy and Augusto Boal, all creatively utilize public spaces, transforming them into their stage and challenging assumptions about “proper” public performances.
Chair: Stephanie Eisenberg, San Francisco State University
Participants:
- Marlon Burns, San Francisco State University
- Allen Conkle, San Francisco State University
- Stephanie Eisenberg, San Francisco State University
- Thao P. Nguyen, San Francisco State University
- Miranda Olzman, San Francisco State University
Respondent: Jeanine Minge, California State University Northridge
3613 WRITING A NEW FUTURE: PERFORMING GENDER, RACE, AND DESIRE
2:30 – 3:45 Sunday, February 19 Sendero III
Chair & Respondent: Jeanine Minge, California State University Northridge
- Feminist Oral History as an Interruption of the Patriarchal Symbolic Order: A Feminist Artist’s Last Performance – Jennifer A. Zenovich, Shane T. Moreman, California State University Fresno
- Born This Way?: A Critical Interpretation of Race and Lady Gaga – Carlos A. Tarin, University of Utah – James M. Fortney, University of Colorado Boulder
- Marking and (Re)Mapping White Straight Feminine Desires – Dawn Marie D. McIntosh, Metropolitan State College of Denver
3709 TOP FOUR PAPERS IN THE PERFORMANCE STUDIES INTEREST GROUP
4:00 – 5:15 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment E
Chair: Christine Warda, Chabot College
- “Queer…That…Performance”: A Queer, Performative, and Affective Intervention in the Classroom* – Kathryn Hobson, University of Denver
- I Am a Real American: Comedic Performance and (De)Construction of U.S. Citizenship and Nationhood at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner** – Katelyn Hale Wood, University of Texas at Austin
- Art, Academics, and Activism: Theorizing Feminist Methodology through Theatrical Practice in E. Patrick Johnson’s Sweet Tea – Annika C. Speer, University of California Santa Barbara
- How Open is the Open-Mic? Practicing Poetry and Rehearsing an Urban Polis Yet to Be — Jenifer Rea Vernon, University of Alaska Southeast
*Top Paper, Performance Studies Interest Group **Top Student Paper, Performance Studies Interest Group
4109 (DE/RE)CONSTRUCTING MASCULINITY: PERFORMING OTHER(ED) MASCULINITIES
8:00 – 9:15 Monday, February 20 Enchantment E
This session seeks to stir critical dialogue surrounding the tensions of masculine performances and experiences across our diverse social landscape and attempts to propel underrepresented areas of masculinity studies to the forefront of conversation. Some initial points of concern that arise as a result of this tension include patriarchal performativity in trans-masculinities; queer alternatives to masculinity including feminine masculinities; and the reification of hegemonic masculinity through homosocial behavior. Focusing on these issues, our panel attempts to interrogate various dilemmas surrounding contemporary popular culture and mediated representations of masculinity.
Chair & Respondent: Dana Jean Smith, California State University Long Beach
Participants:
- Benny LeMaster, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Ryan Castillo, California State University Long Beach
- Colle Carpenter, California State University Long Beach
4509 PLAYING BACK BLIND SPOTS AND RESISTANCE IN FIELDWORK: USING PEQuA TO REVEAL HIDDEN INSIGHTS IN ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK
3:45 – 5:00 Monday, February 20 Enchantment E
This panel offers the debut of playback of ethnographic/qualitative analysis, a method that adapts traditional playback theatre techniques for use in ethnographic inquiry.
Chair & Respondent: Kurt Lindemann, San Diego State University
Participants:
- Sarah Amira de la Garza, Arizona State University
- Chema Salinas, Arizona State University
- Roberta Chevrette, Arizona State University
- Amy Rae Pearson, Arizona State University
- Brigitte Bavousett, Arizona State University
4609 AIDING THE BODY, AIDING THE MIND: PERFORMANCE INTERVENTIONS INTO THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS, CLASS, AND THE CLASSROOM
5:15 – 6:30 Monday, February 20 Enchantment E
Chair & Respondent: Kurt Lindemann, San Diego State University
- Sit, Stay, Heal: Animal-Assisted Therapy and Military Veterans – Amy McCullough, University of Denver
- Understanding Social Justice Through the Body: Toward a New Class Consciousness – Brandi Lawless, University of New Mexico
- Processing Constructors and Activators Through the Lens of Critical Performative Pedagogy – Hunter H. Fine, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
5313 THE CLINIC, THE LIBRARY, THE MEMORIAL: PERFORMING PLACES AND SPACES IN THE COMMUNITY
10:00 – 11:15 Tuesday, February 21 Sendero III
Chair: Sabrina Worsham, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Performing (Home)place: Investigating the Blythe Madison Public Library as a Context for Culture and Community – Tiffany D. McDonald, University of Denver
- The Practical Aesthetics of Park51: A Politics of Identity for Muslim Americans – Nicholas Stephen Paliewicz, University of Utah
- Mapping Contested Terrain: Bodies, Safety, and Gender at the Family Planning and Abortion Clinic – Shelly Blair, Texas A&M University
