Amy K Kilgard
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy K Kilgard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy K |
| FAMILY NAME | Kilgard |
| SIGNATURE | KILGARD A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dear sabbatical committee
Modest trickster
This essay explores the proposition of the relational aesthetics of audience participation in Kirt Shineman's performance Last Words. I describe my own participation in the performance as a modest trickster and question the possibility of moving beyond this modest intervention to truly test the limits of audience interactivity
(Four)casting Detroit
Casting in the theatre usually refers to assigning actors roles. However, in this response to Mercilee M. Jenkins's play Spirit of Detroit, I consider casting in several other senses—to mold, to throw out and gather back in, to look forward and backward. I discuss this play as a mutable and living thing, and reflect on the processes and collaborations that have made it what it is
Tossing and Turning
In this paper, I use a performance methodology to theorize how performances of family narratives might be queered through the disruptive or disorienting practices of collage and fracturing. Using Halberstam's 'queer art of failure' as a theoretical foundation and Etchells's performance and writing practices as a methodological guide, I attempt to 'fail' narratively as a way to explore the queer possibilities of some normative family stories. It i…
Chaos as Praxis
Performance pedagogy scholarship often incorporates traditional (orderly) scholarly writing practices, even as the activities such scholars describe are far from orderly. Chaos theory provides an alternative explanatory model for understanding and writing about performance pedagogy. I propose that chaos in form and content is more than a metaphor for such radical performance pedagogy. Pieces of the essay unravel, expand, and repeat to create a ch…
Staging Stain Upon the Snow
Scholars in the emerging field of critical white studies maintain that as a result of the naturalization of whiteness, the vast majority of whites are blind to the power and privilege afforded by whiteness. This essay reflects on a production that attempted to put the spotlight on whiteness. Written from the points of view of the director and a performer, this essay reflects on the process of using reiterative stagings of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "T…
Staging Stain Upon the Snow
Scholars in the emerging field of critical white studies maintain that as a result of the naturalization of whiteness, the vast majority of whites are blind to the power and privilege afforded by whiteness. This essay reflects on a production that attempted to put the spotlight on whiteness. Written from the points of view of the director and a performer, this essay reflects on the process of using reiterative stagings of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "T…
Chaos as Praxis
Performance pedagogy scholarship often incorporates traditional (orderly) scholarly writing practices, even as the activities such scholars describe are far from orderly. Chaos theory provides an alternative explanatory model for understanding and writing about performance pedagogy. I propose that chaos in form and content is more than a metaphor for such radical performance pedagogy. Pieces of the essay unravel, expand, and repeat to create a ch…
Staging Stain Upon the Snow
Scholars in the emerging field of critical white studies maintain that as a result of the naturalization of whiteness, the vast majority of whites are blind to the power and privilege afforded by whiteness. This essay reflects on a production that attempted to put the spotlight on whiteness. Written from the points of view of the director and a performer, this essay reflects on the process of using reiterative stagings of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "T…
Chaos as Praxis
Performance pedagogy scholarship often incorporates traditional (orderly) scholarly writing practices, even as the activities such scholars describe are far from orderly. Chaos theory provides an alternative explanatory model for understanding and writing about performance pedagogy. I propose that chaos in form and content is more than a metaphor for such radical performance pedagogy. Pieces of the essay unravel, expand, and repeat to create a ch…
(Four)casting Detroit
Casting in the theatre usually refers to assigning actors roles. However, in this response to Mercilee M. Jenkins's play Spirit of Detroit, I consider casting in several other senses—to mold, to throw out and gather back in, to look forward and backward. I discuss this play as a mutable and living thing, and reflect on the processes and collaborations that have made it what it is
Tossing and Turning
In this paper, I use a performance methodology to theorize how performances of family narratives might be queered through the disruptive or disorienting practices of collage and fracturing. Using Halberstam's 'queer art of failure' as a theoretical foundation and Etchells's performance and writing practices as a methodological guide, I attempt to 'fail' narratively as a way to explore the queer possibilities of some normative family stories. It i…
Modest trickster
This essay explores the proposition of the relational aesthetics of audience participation in Kirt Shineman's performance Last Words. I describe my own participation in the performance as a modest trickster and question the possibility of moving beyond this modest intervention to truly test the limits of audience interactivity
Dear sabbatical committee
Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)