Alan Sikes
Biographic Data
| ID | 4860486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Sikes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sikes |
| SIGNATURE | SIKES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5995-9326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The 2023 Prague Quadrennial
This article offers an illustrated review of the 2023 Prague Quadrennial. It draws upon the author’s experience of attending the last three Quadrennials, from 2011 through 2019
Pedagogy, performativity and ‘never again’
As collaborators on the project Performing the Jewish Archive we worked with students in the US and in the UK to devise two separate peformances based on a script from the Terezín Ghetto (in German, Theresienstadt) titled Comedy about a Trap. By developing with them what we call ‘co-textual’ scenes, we engaged in a type of performance pedagogy that we hope will achieve lasting transformation: the students created and performed a relationship betw…
Politics and Pornography
The most popular performance practices to emerge recently from the Czech Republic may come as something of a surprise to readers of academic theatre journals. While scholars may consider dissident theatrical texts of the communist era as the principal performance exports of the Czech nation, these texts and their productions have been overwhelmed by performances characterized by a marked complicity with, rather than resistance to, the current eco…
Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present
Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras. The book joins history and historiography and is grounded in a body of research
The performing genome
This essay argues for the reconception of the human genome as performative inasmuch as the articulation of the genome does not merely describe or represent the body, but actually brings the body into being. Such a reconception suggests that human bodies and, by extension, human subjects are produced in acts of articulation and are therefore open to potential re-articulations, a suggestion with important aesthetic and political implications. After…
The performing genome
This essay argues for the reconception of the human genome as performative inasmuch as the articulation of the genome does not merely describe or represent the body, but actually brings the body into being. Such a reconception suggests that human bodies and, by extension, human subjects are produced in acts of articulation and are therefore open to potential re-articulations, a suggestion with important aesthetic and political implications. After…
Politics and Pornography
The most popular performance practices to emerge recently from the Czech Republic may come as something of a surprise to readers of academic theatre journals. While scholars may consider dissident theatrical texts of the communist era as the principal performance exports of the Czech nation, these texts and their productions have been overwhelmed by performances characterized by a marked complicity with, rather than resistance to, the current eco…
The performing genome
This essay argues for the reconception of the human genome as performative inasmuch as the articulation of the genome does not merely describe or represent the body, but actually brings the body into being. Such a reconception suggests that human bodies and, by extension, human subjects are produced in acts of articulation and are therefore open to potential re-articulations, a suggestion with important aesthetic and political implications. After…
Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present
Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras. The book joins history and historiography and is grounded in a body of research
Politics and Pornography
The most popular performance practices to emerge recently from the Czech Republic may come as something of a surprise to readers of academic theatre journals. While scholars may consider dissident theatrical texts of the communist era as the principal performance exports of the Czech nation, these texts and their productions have been overwhelmed by performances characterized by a marked complicity with, rather than resistance to, the current eco…
Pedagogy, performativity and ‘never again’
As collaborators on the project Performing the Jewish Archive we worked with students in the US and in the UK to devise two separate peformances based on a script from the Terezín Ghetto (in German, Theresienstadt) titled Comedy about a Trap. By developing with them what we call ‘co-textual’ scenes, we engaged in a type of performance pedagogy that we hope will achieve lasting transformation: the students created and performed a relationship betw…
The 2023 Prague Quadrennial
This article offers an illustrated review of the 2023 Prague Quadrennial. It draws upon the author’s experience of attending the last three Quadrennials, from 2011 through 2019
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works)