Editorship, Editorial and Article in a Special Issue of Performance Research 'On the Maternal'
- Submitting institution
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University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
: A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Output identifier
- 1882626
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1080/13528165.2017.1374762
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis/Routledge
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - Drama, Theatre and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Maternal studies is currently experiencing a renaissance; however, the maternal has been neglected within performance studies. This special edition centralises the maternal within performance studies. The edition brings together scholarly writing with texts from performance practitioners in order to address this gap within the discipline. Underwood-Lee was co-editor on the whole edition and co-authored the ‘Introduction’ and the ‘Manifesto for Maternal Performance (Art) 2016!’. All tasks were shared equally between Simic and Underwood-Lee. The Introduction to the issue (2537 words) charts the scholarly activity around the maternal and explores this in relation to performance, making an original contribution through exposing synergies between performance and the maternal and offering opportunities for live art and performance as a means of exploring the maternal. ‘Manifesto for Maternal Performance (Art) 2016!’ takes as its starting point Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Manifesto for Maintenance (Art) 1969!. It locates the manifesto as a performative writing form and attempts to foreground the subjective experience of motherhood as a means of exploring the wider conception of the maternal. The Manifesto has gained considerable currency since its publication and has been shared as an invited performative presentation at the ‘Bringing Up the Future’ exhibition and conference at SC Gallery in Zagreb, ‘Oxytocin Festival’ at the Royal College of Art in London, ‘The Mothernists II: Who Cares for the 21st Century?’ at the Astrid Noack’s Atelier in Copenhagen, and the Live Art Development Agency, London. The innovative research imperative driving this article is the location of the maternal as a form of performance and its manifestation within writing.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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