Theron Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theron Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theron |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9147-3310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Traces of disappearance, disruptions of representation: The art and public action of Cassils
Over 15 years, the work of transgender performance artist Cassils has engaged with the histories and ongoing lived experiences of LGBQTI + violence and representation, as well as the double-edged sword of trans invisibility and over-representation in culture. Drawing on interviews with the artist, this article provides a survey of the artist’s work, connecting its themes of disappearance and invisibilization, traces left behind by bodies, and act…
To teach as if there were no future
Drawing on diverse situated experiences, the twelve authors of this article suggest the potential in teaching as if there was no future. To speak of a performance pedagogy futurity is to speak of an impossibility – the coexistence and circulation of technique does not lead towards a shared future, as intercultural pedagogies might have it, but instead to the absence of futurity altogether. The question is not when a future will arrive, as institu…
By the time you read this it is already too late: The problem of the online lecture
Performance is that which attempts to hold that within which it itself is held. This may take the form of an explicit theatricality, foregrounding and reflecting upon the conditions of being seen and being heard, of the speech and appearance of an actor – which can have both dramatic as well as political dimensions (Arendt [1958] 1998; Schmidt 2017). Or it may take the form of an intentional or habitual performativity, generating the conditions w…
What are Performance Philosophy Problems
Performance Philosophy is an emerging interdisciplinary field of thought, creative practice and scholarship. The international, peer-reviewed, open access journal publishes articles that interrogate what this field might be and what might be possible within it
The First Thing We Make is the Conditions of our Meeting: A gathering on gathering
When we gather to or for something, the first thing we make is the gathering itself. How can we approach that making of gathering as a creative and expansive endeavour? From diverse perspectives, the artists here offer new shapes, forms, maps, diagrams, rituals, scores, and protocols of attending to the conditions within which we meet – and the conditions that we make in meeting. When we are in attendance with others, how can we broaden not only …
Performance Philosophy 7(2) (2022): Imagining the open
This is the editorial for Performance Philosophy 7(2) (2022)
Ensemblography: Making Collaboration through Performing Writing
What if we think of the classroom as a work of art? Performance, collaboration, and social engagement considered as pedagogic practices
This article brings into relation critical perspectives and practical tactics from a range of different fields—performance studies, visual art practice, pedagogy and educational theory, and activism and community organising—in order to create some space for re-imagining what might be possible within the dynamics of the Higher Education classroom. It proceeds through a series of speculative modes: ‘what if we think of the classroom as a market?’, …
Tactics: Practical and imagined
Since December 2017, a group of us (including Kim Solga, Sylvan Baker, Diana Damian Martin, Rebecca Hayes Laughton, and Katherine Low) have been convening working sessions at various schools and conferences that address the questions and problems animating this issue of RiDE. In this final article, a handful of our respondents from ASTR 2018 in San Diego ruminate upon, list, and re-member tactics they have used, or dreamed of using, to make it th…
Ain't Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left
Journal Article Ain't Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Get access Erin Royston Battat. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xviii, 233 pp. Paper, $32.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 281–282, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav278 Published: 01 June 2015
We Say Sorry’: Apology, the Law and Theatricality
When ideas about theatre are used to describe political events, the theatrical is usually made to stand for that which is undesirable, inauthentic and empty about political life: we might describe a particular speech or gesture as ‘only theatre’, or use language such as ‘playing politics’ or ‘political drama’ to denounce the way self-referential questions about character or personal intrigue have obscured the ‘real’ issues of politics. In contras…
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We Say Sorry’: Apology, the Law and Theatricality
When ideas about theatre are used to describe political events, the theatrical is usually made to stand for that which is undesirable, inauthentic and empty about political life: we might describe a particular speech or gesture as ‘only theatre’, or use language such as ‘playing politics’ or ‘political drama’ to denounce the way self-referential questions about character or personal intrigue have obscured the ‘real’ issues of politics. In contras…
Ain't Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left
Journal Article Ain't Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Get access Erin Royston Battat. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xviii, 233 pp. Paper, $32.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 281–282, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav278 Published: 01 June 2015
Tactics: Practical and imagined
Since December 2017, a group of us (including Kim Solga, Sylvan Baker, Diana Damian Martin, Rebecca Hayes Laughton, and Katherine Low) have been convening working sessions at various schools and conferences that address the questions and problems animating this issue of RiDE. In this final article, a handful of our respondents from ASTR 2018 in San Diego ruminate upon, list, and re-member tactics they have used, or dreamed of using, to make it th…
What if we think of the classroom as a work of art? Performance, collaboration, and social engagement considered as pedagogic practices
This article brings into relation critical perspectives and practical tactics from a range of different fields—performance studies, visual art practice, pedagogy and educational theory, and activism and community organising—in order to create some space for re-imagining what might be possible within the dynamics of the Higher Education classroom. It proceeds through a series of speculative modes: ‘what if we think of the classroom as a market?’, …
Ensemblography: Making Collaboration through Performing Writing
Performance Philosophy 7(2) (2022): Imagining the open
This is the editorial for Performance Philosophy 7(2) (2022)
The First Thing We Make is the Conditions of our Meeting: A gathering on gathering
When we gather to or for something, the first thing we make is the gathering itself. How can we approach that making of gathering as a creative and expansive endeavour? From diverse perspectives, the artists here offer new shapes, forms, maps, diagrams, rituals, scores, and protocols of attending to the conditions within which we meet – and the conditions that we make in meeting. When we are in attendance with others, how can we broaden not only …
By the time you read this it is already too late: The problem of the online lecture
Performance is that which attempts to hold that within which it itself is held. This may take the form of an explicit theatricality, foregrounding and reflecting upon the conditions of being seen and being heard, of the speech and appearance of an actor – which can have both dramatic as well as political dimensions (Arendt [1958] 1998; Schmidt 2017). Or it may take the form of an intentional or habitual performativity, generating the conditions w…
What are Performance Philosophy Problems
Performance Philosophy is an emerging interdisciplinary field of thought, creative practice and scholarship. The international, peer-reviewed, open access journal publishes articles that interrogate what this field might be and what might be possible within it
Traces of disappearance, disruptions of representation: The art and public action of Cassils
Over 15 years, the work of transgender performance artist Cassils has engaged with the histories and ongoing lived experiences of LGBQTI + violence and representation, as well as the double-edged sword of trans invisibility and over-representation in culture. Drawing on interviews with the artist, this article provides a survey of the artist’s work, connecting its themes of disappearance and invisibilization, traces left behind by bodies, and act…
To teach as if there were no future
Drawing on diverse situated experiences, the twelve authors of this article suggest the potential in teaching as if there was no future. To speak of a performance pedagogy futurity is to speak of an impossibility – the coexistence and circulation of technique does not lead towards a shared future, as intercultural pedagogies might have it, but instead to the absence of futurity altogether. The question is not when a future will arrive, as institu…
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