Aylwyn Walsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aylwyn Walsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aylwyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Walsh |
| SIGNATURE | WALSH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1501-8804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critical hope (and hopelessness) in youth participatory arts praxis: ImaginingOtherwise
This article considers moments from youth participatory arts praxis in Cape Town, South Africa. Hopelessness can ensure that dreams and desires are quashed and keep one ‘in place’ (Muñoz, 2009). We thus consider the role of ‘concrete struggle’ [Giroux, Henry. 2004. “When Hope is Subversive.” Tikkun 19 (6): 38–39], how it relates to youth ‘agency’ [Häkli, Jouni, & Kallio, Kirsi P. 2018. On Becoming Political: The Political in Subjectivity. Subject…
Indigenous resurgence, collective ‘reminding’, and insidious binaries: A response to Verbuyst’s ‘settler colonialism and therapeutic discourses on the past’
This essay intervenes in the on-going debate over the power-knowledge entanglements of classifying emic Indigenous resurgence accounts of the past as “therapeutic history”. We refer to how “therapeutic history” was defined by Ronald Niezen in his 2009 book, The Rediscovered Self. We argue that despite the important refinement of the concept made by Rafael Verbuyst in his application of the term in his work on Khoisan resurgence in South Africa, w…
Forum Theatre as a mechanism to explore representation of local people's values in environmental governance: A case of study from Chiapas, Mexico
Nature degradation, poverty and social discrimination are some of the consequences of unfair decision‐making over environmental resources within rural communities in the Global South. Barriers to achieving fair environmental decisions are entrenched power differences and the lack of representation of the diversity of local values in environmental decision‐making. Using intersectionality and value pluralism as a conceptual base, this is the first …
Valuing trans-disciplinarity: Forum Theatre in Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico
This article intervenes in the persistent hierarchy of epistemological worth that produces scientific knowledge as meaningful, and knowledge from arts or humanities as marginal, or illustrative. The specific trans-disciplinary project we discuss brings together environmental social sciences with performance-based Forum Theatre methods to explore ‘value’ as understood in communities in Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico in relation to Payment for Ecosyst…
Can theatre be used in environmental governance? The view of environmental professionals in Mexico
Values of local people are often poorly represented in environmental decisions due to power differences. Performance arts-based methods have been put forward as one way to increase the representation of local values and signalling power differences. Environmental professionals’ validation of these methods is essential as they shape the interpretation, uptake, and implementation of environmental decisions in practice, but their views remain largel…
Towards redress: The ‘not-yet’ future between harm and repair in Cape Town
ImaginingOtherwise was a participatory arts education initiative engaging peripheralised young people to explore how ‘race’ and space are reproduced in the specific context of the Cape Flats, Cape Town, which like all apartheid cities, was a result of violent dispossession by forced removals. There is a need to attend to local, specific accounts of young people and their capacity to resist the ravages of disposability. I bring together youth stud…
South Africa’s Student Activist Turn in the Decolonial Present
In order to understand the tactics and representational strategies of recent South African Student activism, I consider the devised ensemble play The Fall (Baxter Theatre Centre 2017) for instances of performance as protestation. Resistance in the form of #RhodesMustFall protests must be considered alongside the race and class dimensions that continue to structure access to tertiary education. The aim is to demonstrate ‘fallism’ as a performative…
A politics of reminding: Khoisan resurgence and environmental justice in South Africa’s Sarah Baartman district
In the wake of colonial fragmentation and genocide, Indigenous ‘Khoisan resurgence’ movements in South Africa have mobilised subversive forms of authenticity, including heteroglossic and inventive translanguaging from fragments of Khoekhoegowab. In our analysis of video ethnographic texts produced in collaboration with the Gamtkwa Khoisan Council (GKC) in Hankey, the birthplace of Sarah Baartman, we explore how memory, language politics, and envi…
Manifesting desire and anarchy as method: The problem of Inside Pussy Riot
My aim is to consider how anarchy reads and resists punitive regimes in performance, particularly in ‘immersive performance’. Punk troupe Pussy Riot forms a starting point, via Riot Days in 2017–18, with a sustained consideration on Inside Pussy Riot at the Saatchi Gallery in 2017, produced by Les Enfants Terrible. I concentrate on claims for authenticity that seem to lend theatre and performance legitimacy in relation to social change, to critiq…
Voicing ambiguities in the Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba co-creator collective
This article considers youth co-production in the context of Global Challenges Research funded project, Changing the Story. The participatory project conceives of ‘voice' as research data, turn of phrase, and character by engaging with the work produced by South African co-creator collective Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, who contribute to voicing issues related to land, stewardship and futures. Developing Linda Tuhiwai Smith's five dimensions of dec…
Prison Cultures: Performance, Resistance, Desire
Dear Tina: Protesting Institutions in Times of Crisis
Speaking from within a time of economic crisis, It's a Beautiful Thing, the Destruction of Wor(l)ds investigates how scholarly activities reflect activist identities and the affect of experiencing social change in the Greek crisis. In Dear TINA, we write through and about workplaces: correctional institutions and higher education, and their effects on our ways of knowing. These two performance lectures by Ministry of Untold Stories offer a workin…
Staging women in prisons: Clean Break Theatre Company’s dramaturgy of the cage
The article explores the limitations of the dramaturgies of the cell through a close reading of several key play texts commissioned by the UK’s leading arts in criminal justice organisation working with women, Clean Break. The apparently humanist positioning of women in prison as just like everyone else erases the specificity of women’s backstories. Conversely, by adhering to the constructions of female prisoners as holding binary positions of ei…
Virtues of Violence: A Testimonial Performance, or an Affidavit of Lies, Excuses, and Justifications
This is a performance of statements/records/made up lies. We collected testimonies that spoke of some of the violences that we are facing-from Greece and Turkey-but these glimpses of frustration, bruising, broken dreams are evident everywhere, with different masks and excuses: 'neoliberalism'/'extremism'/'unionism.' All have the common suggestion: that this is how we play the game. The mediated moral panic about urban insurrections demonstrates h…
Re-viewing an arts-in-health process: For the Best
This paper focuses on several images and metaphors from an artist residency at the Evelina Children's Hospital and subsequent production at the Unicorn Theatre, For the Best. The intention is to consider how reflecting on an arts-based process with children on dialysis, and their school-mates can provide new ways of viewing performance outcomes. The narrative about a family's struggle to manage with a young boy's long-term chronic illness under t…
Breaking frames: Mark Storor’s For the Best – A case study about an artist in residence
This article analyses For the Best, referring to a research and development phase with chronically ill patients at both Evelina Children’s Hospital and the Royal Liverpool Hospitals and professional performances at the Unicorn Theatre and Gostin’s Building. The case study makes an argument for the careful nurturing of multiple partnerships, and draws on the findings of the external evaluation of the project. As such, it offers a specific overview…
Merry Crisis-mas (from Greece)
25 December 2011: While families were sitting down to a Christmas f(e)ast, we were grappling with a tough slice of life in Athens. We devoured a delicious side dish of ethical questions and a desse
Chasing after white rabbits: Directing community theatre for the National Arts Festival
" The article analyses the director's experiences of creating community-based theatre for the National Arts festival in South Africa. It is a reflection on a practice process. "
A politics of reminding: Khoisan resurgence and environmental justice in South Africa’s Sarah Baartman district
In the wake of colonial fragmentation and genocide, Indigenous ‘Khoisan resurgence’ movements in South Africa have mobilised subversive forms of authenticity, including heteroglossic and inventive translanguaging from fragments of Khoekhoegowab. In our analysis of video ethnographic texts produced in collaboration with the Gamtkwa Khoisan Council (GKC) in Hankey, the birthplace of Sarah Baartman, we explore how memory, language politics, and envi…
Indigenous resurgence, collective ‘reminding’, and insidious binaries: A response to Verbuyst’s ‘settler colonialism and therapeutic discourses on the past’
This essay intervenes in the on-going debate over the power-knowledge entanglements of classifying emic Indigenous resurgence accounts of the past as “therapeutic history”. We refer to how “therapeutic history” was defined by Ronald Niezen in his 2009 book, The Rediscovered Self. We argue that despite the important refinement of the concept made by Rafael Verbuyst in his application of the term in his work on Khoisan resurgence in South Africa, w…
Can theatre be used in environmental governance? The view of environmental professionals in Mexico
Values of local people are often poorly represented in environmental decisions due to power differences. Performance arts-based methods have been put forward as one way to increase the representation of local values and signalling power differences. Environmental professionals’ validation of these methods is essential as they shape the interpretation, uptake, and implementation of environmental decisions in practice, but their views remain largel…
Towards redress: The ‘not-yet’ future between harm and repair in Cape Town
ImaginingOtherwise was a participatory arts education initiative engaging peripheralised young people to explore how ‘race’ and space are reproduced in the specific context of the Cape Flats, Cape Town, which like all apartheid cities, was a result of violent dispossession by forced removals. There is a need to attend to local, specific accounts of young people and their capacity to resist the ravages of disposability. I bring together youth stud…
Chasing after white rabbits: Directing community theatre for the National Arts Festival
" The article analyses the director's experiences of creating community-based theatre for the National Arts festival in South Africa. It is a reflection on a practice process. "
Breaking frames: Mark Storor’s For the Best – A case study about an artist in residence
This article analyses For the Best, referring to a research and development phase with chronically ill patients at both Evelina Children’s Hospital and the Royal Liverpool Hospitals and professional performances at the Unicorn Theatre and Gostin’s Building. The case study makes an argument for the careful nurturing of multiple partnerships, and draws on the findings of the external evaluation of the project. As such, it offers a specific overview…
Merry Crisis-mas (from Greece)
25 December 2011: While families were sitting down to a Christmas f(e)ast, we were grappling with a tough slice of life in Athens. We devoured a delicious side dish of ethical questions and a desse
Re-viewing an arts-in-health process: For the Best
This paper focuses on several images and metaphors from an artist residency at the Evelina Children's Hospital and subsequent production at the Unicorn Theatre, For the Best. The intention is to consider how reflecting on an arts-based process with children on dialysis, and their school-mates can provide new ways of viewing performance outcomes. The narrative about a family's struggle to manage with a young boy's long-term chronic illness under t…
Staging women in prisons: Clean Break Theatre Company’s dramaturgy of the cage
The article explores the limitations of the dramaturgies of the cell through a close reading of several key play texts commissioned by the UK’s leading arts in criminal justice organisation working with women, Clean Break. The apparently humanist positioning of women in prison as just like everyone else erases the specificity of women’s backstories. Conversely, by adhering to the constructions of female prisoners as holding binary positions of ei…
Virtues of Violence: A Testimonial Performance, or an Affidavit of Lies, Excuses, and Justifications
This is a performance of statements/records/made up lies. We collected testimonies that spoke of some of the violences that we are facing-from Greece and Turkey-but these glimpses of frustration, bruising, broken dreams are evident everywhere, with different masks and excuses: 'neoliberalism'/'extremism'/'unionism.' All have the common suggestion: that this is how we play the game. The mediated moral panic about urban insurrections demonstrates h…
Dear Tina: Protesting Institutions in Times of Crisis
Speaking from within a time of economic crisis, It's a Beautiful Thing, the Destruction of Wor(l)ds investigates how scholarly activities reflect activist identities and the affect of experiencing social change in the Greek crisis. In Dear TINA, we write through and about workplaces: correctional institutions and higher education, and their effects on our ways of knowing. These two performance lectures by Ministry of Untold Stories offer a workin…
Prison Cultures: Performance, Resistance, Desire
Manifesting desire and anarchy as method: The problem of Inside Pussy Riot
My aim is to consider how anarchy reads and resists punitive regimes in performance, particularly in ‘immersive performance’. Punk troupe Pussy Riot forms a starting point, via Riot Days in 2017–18, with a sustained consideration on Inside Pussy Riot at the Saatchi Gallery in 2017, produced by Les Enfants Terrible. I concentrate on claims for authenticity that seem to lend theatre and performance legitimacy in relation to social change, to critiq…
Voicing ambiguities in the Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba co-creator collective
This article considers youth co-production in the context of Global Challenges Research funded project, Changing the Story. The participatory project conceives of ‘voice' as research data, turn of phrase, and character by engaging with the work produced by South African co-creator collective Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, who contribute to voicing issues related to land, stewardship and futures. Developing Linda Tuhiwai Smith's five dimensions of dec…
South Africa’s Student Activist Turn in the Decolonial Present
In order to understand the tactics and representational strategies of recent South African Student activism, I consider the devised ensemble play The Fall (Baxter Theatre Centre 2017) for instances of performance as protestation. Resistance in the form of #RhodesMustFall protests must be considered alongside the race and class dimensions that continue to structure access to tertiary education. The aim is to demonstrate ‘fallism’ as a performative…
A politics of reminding: Khoisan resurgence and environmental justice in South Africa’s Sarah Baartman district
In the wake of colonial fragmentation and genocide, Indigenous ‘Khoisan resurgence’ movements in South Africa have mobilised subversive forms of authenticity, including heteroglossic and inventive translanguaging from fragments of Khoekhoegowab. In our analysis of video ethnographic texts produced in collaboration with the Gamtkwa Khoisan Council (GKC) in Hankey, the birthplace of Sarah Baartman, we explore how memory, language politics, and envi…
Forum Theatre as a mechanism to explore representation of local people's values in environmental governance: A case of study from Chiapas, Mexico
Nature degradation, poverty and social discrimination are some of the consequences of unfair decision‐making over environmental resources within rural communities in the Global South. Barriers to achieving fair environmental decisions are entrenched power differences and the lack of representation of the diversity of local values in environmental decision‐making. Using intersectionality and value pluralism as a conceptual base, this is the first …
Valuing trans-disciplinarity: Forum Theatre in Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico
This article intervenes in the persistent hierarchy of epistemological worth that produces scientific knowledge as meaningful, and knowledge from arts or humanities as marginal, or illustrative. The specific trans-disciplinary project we discuss brings together environmental social sciences with performance-based Forum Theatre methods to explore ‘value’ as understood in communities in Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico in relation to Payment for Ecosyst…
Can theatre be used in environmental governance? The view of environmental professionals in Mexico
Values of local people are often poorly represented in environmental decisions due to power differences. Performance arts-based methods have been put forward as one way to increase the representation of local values and signalling power differences. Environmental professionals’ validation of these methods is essential as they shape the interpretation, uptake, and implementation of environmental decisions in practice, but their views remain largel…
Towards redress: The ‘not-yet’ future between harm and repair in Cape Town
ImaginingOtherwise was a participatory arts education initiative engaging peripheralised young people to explore how ‘race’ and space are reproduced in the specific context of the Cape Flats, Cape Town, which like all apartheid cities, was a result of violent dispossession by forced removals. There is a need to attend to local, specific accounts of young people and their capacity to resist the ravages of disposability. I bring together youth stud…
Critical hope (and hopelessness) in youth participatory arts praxis: ImaginingOtherwise
This article considers moments from youth participatory arts praxis in Cape Town, South Africa. Hopelessness can ensure that dreams and desires are quashed and keep one ‘in place’ (Muñoz, 2009). We thus consider the role of ‘concrete struggle’ [Giroux, Henry. 2004. “When Hope is Subversive.” Tikkun 19 (6): 38–39], how it relates to youth ‘agency’ [Häkli, Jouni, & Kallio, Kirsi P. 2018. On Becoming Political: The Political in Subjectivity. Subject…
Indigenous resurgence, collective ‘reminding’, and insidious binaries: A response to Verbuyst’s ‘settler colonialism and therapeutic discourses on the past’
This essay intervenes in the on-going debate over the power-knowledge entanglements of classifying emic Indigenous resurgence accounts of the past as “therapeutic history”. We refer to how “therapeutic history” was defined by Ronald Niezen in his 2009 book, The Rediscovered Self. We argue that despite the important refinement of the concept made by Rafael Verbuyst in his application of the term in his work on Khoisan resurgence in South Africa, w…
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