Lilian G Mengesha
Biographic Data
| ID | 1695847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lilian G Mengesha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lilian G |
| FAMILY NAME | Mengesha |
| SIGNATURE | MENGESHA L G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction toPerforming Refusal/Refusing to Perform
This introduction outlines an aesthetic of refusal as it emerges from instances of racialized exhaustion. Described as an aesthetics of minoritarian inaction and non-reproductivity, refusal challenges the centrality of action and repetition as the central tenets of political performance. Instead, the two valences of performing refusal/refusing to perform name an ethics of relation under racial capitalism, negating the dialectic of assimilation or…
Defecting Witness
In 2005, Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo carved the letters P-E-R-R-A (bitch) into her thigh, the same word carved onto the many victims of her country’s feminicide crisis. PERRA urgently asks spectators to defect in the wake of grotesque violence, to refuse easy understanding and instead occupy a position of shared vulnerability. A practice of defecting privileges an ethics of responsibility despite and because of the impossibility for acc…
Embodied avatars
What happens when bodies that have historically faced dehumanizing practices mobilize objecthood? How must performance studies adjust its frame when the avant-garde begins from the position of ante
Introduction toPerforming Refusal/Refusing to Perform
This introduction outlines an aesthetic of refusal as it emerges from instances of racialized exhaustion. Described as an aesthetics of minoritarian inaction and non-reproductivity, refusal challenges the centrality of action and repetition as the central tenets of political performance. Instead, the two valences of performing refusal/refusing to perform name an ethics of relation under racial capitalism, negating the dialectic of assimilation or…
Defecting Witness
In 2005, Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo carved the letters P-E-R-R-A (bitch) into her thigh, the same word carved onto the many victims of her country’s feminicide crisis. PERRA urgently asks spectators to defect in the wake of grotesque violence, to refuse easy understanding and instead occupy a position of shared vulnerability. A practice of defecting privileges an ethics of responsibility despite and because of the impossibility for acc…
Embodied avatars
What happens when bodies that have historically faced dehumanizing practices mobilize objecthood? How must performance studies adjust its frame when the avant-garde begins from the position of ante
Introduction toPerforming Refusal/Refusing to Perform
This introduction outlines an aesthetic of refusal as it emerges from instances of racialized exhaustion. Described as an aesthetics of minoritarian inaction and non-reproductivity, refusal challenges the centrality of action and repetition as the central tenets of political performance. Instead, the two valences of performing refusal/refusing to perform name an ethics of relation under racial capitalism, negating the dialectic of assimilation or…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)