Bryan Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Far Country
In The Far Country Lloyd Suh asserts the power of one’s name, with attention to the familial, material, and even metaphysical burdens of being forced to cast it off. Yale Repertory Theatre’s production, through the inspired direction of Ralph B. Peña, leans into Suh’s imaginative dramatic language, which combines longitudinal storytelling (spanning 1909–30) with dreamy, pensive sequences that animate concepts like memory, translation, and transfo…
South Africa’s National Arts Festival (review)
Reviewed by: South Africa’s National Arts Festival Bryan W. Schmidt SOUTH AFRICA’S NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL. Various venues, Makhanda, South Africa. June 23–July 3, 2022. South Africa’s National Arts Festival (NAF) built its reputation on being a platform for vital social critique, a major draw for the Eastern Cape economy, and also a kuierfees—a social festival with an immersive, artsy atmosphere. After being forced to move online for two straight…
Covid Relief and the Dynamics of State Care in South Africa’s Performance Economy
This article addresses South Africa’s Covid relief plan for its creative sector—the Presidential Employment Stimulus Plan (PESP)—as a locus for understanding the evolution of state arts sponsorship since the country’s first free elections in 1994. It begins with an historical discussion outlining the evolution of various philosophies of national arts sector caretaking. Particular attention is drawn to the philosophical shift from democratic aspir…
South Africa's National Arts Festival
Black feminism fleshes out the human
The title Habeas viscus neatly encapsulates Alexander Weheliye’s intervention into the long-standing interdisciplinary project of troubling the liberal conception of personhood. He pivots from figu
Boutiquing at the Raindance Campout
This article uses Nicholas Bourriaud's theorizing of "relational aesthetics" to consider the mechanics that facilitate strong subcultural ties amongst participants of small-scale, "boutique" festivals. Relational aesthetics describes art that takes human interaction as its theoretical horizon, where art works are envisioned primarily as social interstices. Using California's Raindance Campout as a case study, I argue that festivals may be viewed …
Fatty Boom Boom and the Transnationality of Blackface in Die Antwoord's Racial Project
The South African hip hop group Die Antwoord deploys blackface performance as part of a racial project that characterizes race as contingent and mutable in contrast to its rigid apartheid articulation. Examining the flows that carry their work transnationally makes visible the ways US cultural consumption becomes entangled with processes of racialization
Boutiquing at the Raindance Campout
This article uses Nicholas Bourriaud's theorizing of "relational aesthetics" to consider the mechanics that facilitate strong subcultural ties amongst participants of small-scale, "boutique" festivals. Relational aesthetics describes art that takes human interaction as its theoretical horizon, where art works are envisioned primarily as social interstices. Using California's Raindance Campout as a case study, I argue that festivals may be viewed …
Fatty Boom Boom and the Transnationality of Blackface in Die Antwoord's Racial Project
The South African hip hop group Die Antwoord deploys blackface performance as part of a racial project that characterizes race as contingent and mutable in contrast to its rigid apartheid articulation. Examining the flows that carry their work transnationally makes visible the ways US cultural consumption becomes entangled with processes of racialization
Boutiquing at the Raindance Campout
This article uses Nicholas Bourriaud's theorizing of "relational aesthetics" to consider the mechanics that facilitate strong subcultural ties amongst participants of small-scale, "boutique" festivals. Relational aesthetics describes art that takes human interaction as its theoretical horizon, where art works are envisioned primarily as social interstices. Using California's Raindance Campout as a case study, I argue that festivals may be viewed …
Black feminism fleshes out the human
The title Habeas viscus neatly encapsulates Alexander Weheliye’s intervention into the long-standing interdisciplinary project of troubling the liberal conception of personhood. He pivots from figu
Covid Relief and the Dynamics of State Care in South Africa’s Performance Economy
This article addresses South Africa’s Covid relief plan for its creative sector—the Presidential Employment Stimulus Plan (PESP)—as a locus for understanding the evolution of state arts sponsorship since the country’s first free elections in 1994. It begins with an historical discussion outlining the evolution of various philosophies of national arts sector caretaking. Particular attention is drawn to the philosophical shift from democratic aspir…
South Africa's National Arts Festival
South Africa’s National Arts Festival (review)
Reviewed by: South Africa’s National Arts Festival Bryan W. Schmidt SOUTH AFRICA’S NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL. Various venues, Makhanda, South Africa. June 23–July 3, 2022. South Africa’s National Arts Festival (NAF) built its reputation on being a platform for vital social critique, a major draw for the Eastern Cape economy, and also a kuierfees—a social festival with an immersive, artsy atmosphere. After being forced to move online for two straight…
The Far Country
In The Far Country Lloyd Suh asserts the power of one’s name, with attention to the familial, material, and even metaphysical burdens of being forced to cast it off. Yale Repertory Theatre’s production, through the inspired direction of Ralph B. Peña, leans into Suh’s imaginative dramatic language, which combines longitudinal storytelling (spanning 1909–30) with dreamy, pensive sequences that animate concepts like memory, translation, and transfo…
Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · The arts (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works)