Lucy Weir: Bodies in Crisis? Rethinking gender and self-injury in performance Endurance, suffering, and self-injury are recurring characteristics in the global history of performance art. While critical responses to this work range from dismissiveness to veneration, there is a curiously gendered component to analysis of self-injury on stage that, to date, has not been thoroughly interrogated. "I resist the narrative of ‘masculinity in crisis,’ instead seeking to formulate a new analytical approach for understanding the aestheticisation of violence and self-injury in contemporary performance practice." All welcome, no registration necessary. Mar 13 2019 15.00 - 16.30 Lucy Weir: Bodies in Crisis? Rethinking gender and self-injury in performance This seminar will explore some of the key questions emerging from Lucy's new research project, which aims to challenge and reframe established readings of self-injury in both mainstream and subcultural performance. Room 1.9, Doorway 6, Medical School, Teviot Place
Lucy Weir: Bodies in Crisis? Rethinking gender and self-injury in performance Endurance, suffering, and self-injury are recurring characteristics in the global history of performance art. While critical responses to this work range from dismissiveness to veneration, there is a curiously gendered component to analysis of self-injury on stage that, to date, has not been thoroughly interrogated. "I resist the narrative of ‘masculinity in crisis,’ instead seeking to formulate a new analytical approach for understanding the aestheticisation of violence and self-injury in contemporary performance practice." All welcome, no registration necessary. Mar 13 2019 15.00 - 16.30 Lucy Weir: Bodies in Crisis? Rethinking gender and self-injury in performance This seminar will explore some of the key questions emerging from Lucy's new research project, which aims to challenge and reframe established readings of self-injury in both mainstream and subcultural performance. Room 1.9, Doorway 6, Medical School, Teviot Place
Mar 13 2019 15.00 - 16.30 Lucy Weir: Bodies in Crisis? Rethinking gender and self-injury in performance This seminar will explore some of the key questions emerging from Lucy's new research project, which aims to challenge and reframe established readings of self-injury in both mainstream and subcultural performance.
