Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition
Australia’s brutal carceral-border regime is a colonial system of intertwining systems of oppression that combine the prison-industrial complex and the border-industrial complex. It is a violent and multidimensional regime that includes an expanding prison industry and onshore and offshore immigrati...
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| author | Omid Tofighian Rachael Swain Dalisa Pigram Bhenji Ra Chandler Connell Emmanuel James Brown Feras Shaheen Issa El Assaad Luke Currie-Richardson Miranda Wheen Czack (Ses) Bero Zachary Lopez |
| author_facet | Omid Tofighian Rachael Swain Dalisa Pigram Bhenji Ra Chandler Connell Emmanuel James Brown Feras Shaheen Issa El Assaad Luke Currie-Richardson Miranda Wheen Czack (Ses) Bero Zachary Lopez |
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| description | Australia’s brutal carceral-border regime is a colonial system of intertwining systems of oppression that combine the prison-industrial complex and the border-industrial complex. It is a violent and multidimensional regime that includes an expanding prison industry and onshore and offshore immigration detention centres; locations of cruelty, and violent sites for staging contemporary politics and coloniality. This article shares insights into the making of a radical intersectional dance theatre work titled <i>Jurrungu Ngan-ga</i> by Marrugeku, Australia’s leading Indigenous and intercultural dance theatre company. The production, created between 2019–2021, brings together collaborations through and across Indigenous Australian, Kurdish, Iranian, Palestinian, Filipino, Filipinx, and Anglo settler performance, activism and knowledge production. The artistic, political and intellectual dimensions of the show reinforce each other to interrogate Australia’s brutal carceral regime and the concept of the border itself. The article is presented in a polyphonic structure of expanded interviews with the cast and descriptions of the resulting live performance. It identifies radical ways that intersectional and trans-disciplinary performances can, as an ‘act of liberation’, be applied to make visible, embody, address, and help dismantle systems of oppression, control and subjugation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7763d944ecf54617a5d78c748f6818e62023-11-23T20:13:29ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872022-02-011112810.3390/h11010028Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of AbolitionOmid Tofighian0Rachael Swain1Dalisa Pigram2Bhenji Ra3Chandler Connell4Emmanuel James Brown5Feras Shaheen6Issa El Assaad7Luke Currie-Richardson8Miranda Wheen9Czack (Ses) Bero10Zachary Lopez11Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, AustraliaSchool of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, AustraliaMarrugeku, Broome 6725, AustraliaMarrugeku, Broome 6725, AustraliaMarrugeku, Broome 6725, AustraliaMarrugeku, Broome 6725, AustraliaMarrugeku, Broome 6725, AustraliaMarrugeku, Broome 6725, AustraliaMarrugeku, Broome 6725, AustraliaMarrugeku, Broome 6725, AustraliaMarrugeku, Broome 6725, AustraliaMarrugeku, Broome 6725, AustraliaAustralia’s brutal carceral-border regime is a colonial system of intertwining systems of oppression that combine the prison-industrial complex and the border-industrial complex. It is a violent and multidimensional regime that includes an expanding prison industry and onshore and offshore immigration detention centres; locations of cruelty, and violent sites for staging contemporary politics and coloniality. This article shares insights into the making of a radical intersectional dance theatre work titled <i>Jurrungu Ngan-ga</i> by Marrugeku, Australia’s leading Indigenous and intercultural dance theatre company. The production, created between 2019–2021, brings together collaborations through and across Indigenous Australian, Kurdish, Iranian, Palestinian, Filipino, Filipinx, and Anglo settler performance, activism and knowledge production. The artistic, political and intellectual dimensions of the show reinforce each other to interrogate Australia’s brutal carceral regime and the concept of the border itself. The article is presented in a polyphonic structure of expanded interviews with the cast and descriptions of the resulting live performance. It identifies radical ways that intersectional and trans-disciplinary performances can, as an ‘act of liberation’, be applied to make visible, embody, address, and help dismantle systems of oppression, control and subjugation.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/11/1/28intersectionalperformancecontemporary dancebordersincarcerationabolition |
| spellingShingle | Omid Tofighian Rachael Swain Dalisa Pigram Bhenji Ra Chandler Connell Emmanuel James Brown Feras Shaheen Issa El Assaad Luke Currie-Richardson Miranda Wheen Czack (Ses) Bero Zachary Lopez Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition Humanities intersectional performance contemporary dance borders incarceration abolition |
| title | Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition |
| title_full | Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition |
| title_fullStr | Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition |
| title_short | Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition |
| title_sort | performance as intersectional resistance power polyphony and processes of abolition |
| topic | intersectional performance contemporary dance borders incarceration abolition |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/11/1/28 |
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