Socially Engaged Creative Practice

Jess Moriarty

ISBN 10: 1789388872 / ISBN 13: 9781789388879

Published by Intellect, GB, 2024

This is the second book in the Performance and Communities series. An edited collection from academics and artists engages with both these notions of performance - that of identities in and through time and space - and of more formal instances of specific time-limited performances; textual, embodied, visual and communal.Each chapter focuses on an individual or group's mode of working and methodological practice of performance across a range of modes, disciplines and media - from community opera to online queer performance, from anti-racist class-room pedagogy to 1980s cabaret in nightclubs, from community art projects in schools to community writing projects in transport interchanges, the performers, writers and creators represented here all engage and grapple with contemporary performance as a situated practice and as a problematic.The personal perspective of each performer - directors, librettists, producers, writers, performers - is explicitly located in a community and the book offers a series of case studies detailing socially engaged work that aligns with concepts of performance and community. Seller Inventory # LU-9781789388879

Synopsis:

This edited collection engages with both identity and specific time-limited notions in performance: textual, embodied, visual, and communal.

Each chapter of Socially Engaged Creative Practice focuses on an individual or group’s mode of working and methodological practice of performance across a range of modes, disciplines, and media, from community opera to online queer performance; from anti-racist classroom pedagogy to 1980s cabaret in nightclubs; from community art projects in schools to community writing projects in transport interchanges. The performers, writers, and creators represented here engage and grapple with contemporary performance as a situated practice and as a problem.

The personal perspective of each performer—as directors, librettists, producers, and writers—is explicitly located in a community, and the book offers a series of case studies detailing socially engaged work that aligns with concepts of performance and community.
 

About the Authors: Jess Moriarty is a principal lecturer in creative writing.

Kate Aughterson is an independent scholar who has taught in UK universities for thirty years.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Socially Engaged Creative Practice
Publisher: Intellect, GB
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New