Maurya Wickstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 3981328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurya Wickstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurya |
| FAMILY NAME | Wickstrom |
| SIGNATURE | WICKSTRÖM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macmillan Cancer Support |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nathaniel Mackey and M. Lamar
Putting the work of the poet Nathaniel Mackey into correspondence with that of the singer, composer, performance and video artist M. Lamar offers a unique perspective on the complex relationship between automation and possession. Mackey’s Andoumboulou and Mu move in and through M. Lamar so that possession and automation are destabilized and replaced by molecular distintegrations of plantation worlds and the sonic apertures of a Black Afrofuturist…
Performances of Capitalism, Crisis and Resistance
Reviewed by: Performances of Capitalism, Crisis and Resistance: Inside/Outside Europe ed. by Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager Maurya Wickstrom PERFORMANCES OF CAPITALISM, CRISIS AND RESISTANCE: INSIDE/OUTSIDE EUROPE. Edited by Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; pp. 266. In her essay “Staging the Others,” included in this new collection, Aylwyn Walsh remarks parenthetically that the word crisis in the …
Desire and Kairos
In Cassils’s Terisias, the artist’s naked flesh is pressed to a classical Greek male torso made of ice. Cassils’s own heat slowly melts the ice in an act imagined as the innovation of a new temporality
Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism
Culture and performance cross borders constantly, and not just the borders that define nations. In this new series, scholars of performance produce interactions between and among nations and cultures as well as genres, identities and imaginations
I am Jerusalem (review)
Reviewed by: I am Jerusalem Maurya Wickstrom I am Jerusalem. Written and directed by Nasser Omar. Conceptualized and performed by Iman Aoun. Ashtar Theatre Company, Al Midan Theatre, Haifa, Israel. 9 January 2010. The Ashtar Theatre Company is based in Ramallah, Palestine, where I interviewed artistic director Iman Aoun a few days after seeing I Am Jerusalem in the Arab section of Haifa. I found it a beautiful work, equal to any international per…
The Labor of Architecting
In Architecting, the TEAM inaugurates a unique form of theatrical labor. This labor moves beyond identitarian politics to imagine, in the midst of neoliberalism's tendencies to development through destruction, an entirely new kind of space in which an Idea, in Alain Badiou's sense, is resurrected
Commodities, Mimesis, and The Lion King
Commodities, Mimesis, and The Lion King: Retail Theatre for the 1990s Maurya Wickstrom (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. New Amsterdam Theatre and the Disney Store on 42nd Street. Photograph by author. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. “Show Your Character.” Photograph by author. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Toon Square Subway. Photograph by author. An advertisement in the progra…
Vietnam Protest Theatre
Reviewed by: Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage Maurya Wickstrom Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage. By Norma M. Alter. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996; pp. x + 187. $29.95 cloth. Norma M. Alter identifies Vietnam protest theatre as a genre according to three characteristics: it is live, it is a protest (unlike other kinds of narratives about the war), and it was made while the war was still being w…
Girl Child and Camera
Notes on “The History of Corporations,” Part 2
Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism
Culture and performance cross borders constantly, and not just the borders that define nations. In this new series, scholars of performance produce interactions between and among nations and cultures as well as genres, identities and imaginations
Commodities, Mimesis, and The Lion King
Commodities, Mimesis, and The Lion King: Retail Theatre for the 1990s Maurya Wickstrom (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. New Amsterdam Theatre and the Disney Store on 42nd Street. Photograph by author. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. “Show Your Character.” Photograph by author. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Toon Square Subway. Photograph by author. An advertisement in the progra…
Notes on “The History of Corporations,” Part 2
Girl Child and Camera
Vietnam Protest Theatre
Reviewed by: Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage Maurya Wickstrom Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage. By Norma M. Alter. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996; pp. x + 187. $29.95 cloth. Norma M. Alter identifies Vietnam protest theatre as a genre according to three characteristics: it is live, it is a protest (unlike other kinds of narratives about the war), and it was made while the war was still being w…
Commodities, Mimesis, and The Lion King
Commodities, Mimesis, and The Lion King: Retail Theatre for the 1990s Maurya Wickstrom (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. New Amsterdam Theatre and the Disney Store on 42nd Street. Photograph by author. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. “Show Your Character.” Photograph by author. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Toon Square Subway. Photograph by author. An advertisement in the progra…
The Labor of Architecting
In Architecting, the TEAM inaugurates a unique form of theatrical labor. This labor moves beyond identitarian politics to imagine, in the midst of neoliberalism's tendencies to development through destruction, an entirely new kind of space in which an Idea, in Alain Badiou's sense, is resurrected
I am Jerusalem (review)
Reviewed by: I am Jerusalem Maurya Wickstrom I am Jerusalem. Written and directed by Nasser Omar. Conceptualized and performed by Iman Aoun. Ashtar Theatre Company, Al Midan Theatre, Haifa, Israel. 9 January 2010. The Ashtar Theatre Company is based in Ramallah, Palestine, where I interviewed artistic director Iman Aoun a few days after seeing I Am Jerusalem in the Arab section of Haifa. I found it a beautiful work, equal to any international per…
Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism
Culture and performance cross borders constantly, and not just the borders that define nations. In this new series, scholars of performance produce interactions between and among nations and cultures as well as genres, identities and imaginations
Desire and Kairos
In Cassils’s Terisias, the artist’s naked flesh is pressed to a classical Greek male torso made of ice. Cassils’s own heat slowly melts the ice in an act imagined as the innovation of a new temporality
Performances of Capitalism, Crisis and Resistance
Reviewed by: Performances of Capitalism, Crisis and Resistance: Inside/Outside Europe ed. by Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager Maurya Wickstrom PERFORMANCES OF CAPITALISM, CRISIS AND RESISTANCE: INSIDE/OUTSIDE EUROPE. Edited by Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; pp. 266. In her essay “Staging the Others,” included in this new collection, Aylwyn Walsh remarks parenthetically that the word crisis in the …
Nathaniel Mackey and M. Lamar
Putting the work of the poet Nathaniel Mackey into correspondence with that of the singer, composer, performance and video artist M. Lamar offers a unique perspective on the complex relationship between automation and possession. Mackey’s Andoumboulou and Mu move in and through M. Lamar so that possession and automation are destabilized and replaced by molecular distintegrations of plantation worlds and the sonic apertures of a Black Afrofuturist…
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