Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship

Hadley, Bree

ISBN 10: 1349484490 / ISBN 13: 9781349484492

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

About this Item

In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFC; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349484490
• ISBN 13: 9781349484492
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out.

About the Author

Bree Hadley is Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Her research investigates the construction of identity in contemporary, pop cultural and public space performance practices, concentrating particularly on the way spectators are positioned as co-performers in these practices.