{"product_id":"performing-the-wound-niki-tulk-9780367644888","title":"Performing the Wound: Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a matrixial, feminist-centered analysis of trauma and performance, through examining the work of three artists: Ann Hamilton, Ren馥 Green, and Cecilia Vicu. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach artist engages in a multi-media, or \"combination\" performance practice; this includes the use of site, embodied performance, material elements, film, and writing. Each case study involves traumatic content, including the legacy of slavery, child sexual abuse and environmental degradation; each artist constructs an aesthetic milieu that invites rather than immerses-this allows an audience to have agency, as well as multiple pathways into their engagement with the art. The author Niki Tulk suggests that these works facilitate an audience-performance relationship based on the concept of ethical witnessing\/wit(h)nessing, in which viewers are not positioned as voyeurs, nor made to risk re-traumatization by being forced to view traumatic events re-played on stage. This approach also allows agency to the art itself, in that an ethical space is created where the art is not objectified or looked \u003cem\u003eat\u003c\/em\u003e-but joined with. Foundational to this investigation are the writings of Bracha L. Ettinger, Jill Bennett and Diana Taylor-particularly Ettinger's concepts of the matrixial, carriance and border-linking. These artists and scholars present a capacity to expand and articulate answers to questions regarding how to make performance that remains compelling and truthful to the trauma experience, but not re-traumatizing. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis study will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, art history, visual arts, feminist studies, theatre, film, performance art, postcolonialism, rhetoric and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Niki Tulk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367644886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367644888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Niki Tulk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056758288639,"sku":"9780367644888","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c7df334-a535-44e7-93c4-ee17460078d8.jpg?v=1685043108","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/performing-the-wound-niki-tulk-9780367644888","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}