Leon J Hilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 818513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leon J Hilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leon J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilton |
| SIGNATURE | HILTON L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Unwieldy Otherwise
This project presents a syllabus that emerged out of an ongoing set of discussions between the two co-authors about how Black, Southern theatre and performance traditions—as well as embodied and transmitted genealogies of community engagement and activism—informed the intellectual, social, and political commitments that have suffused performance studies from its origins as an academic discipline. These discussions allowed us to generate a syllabu…
An Introduction
Performances and performative instantiations respond to the urgencies of “pressure” and its effects. What is the work of performance when wrung by such pressures as financial constraint, racial subordination, misogyny, and sexism
Psychopower and Psychopolitics
Psychopower and Psychopolitics Leon J. Hilton (bio) Black Madness :: Mad Blackness. By Therí Alyce Pickens. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. xvi + 113 pages. $89.95 (cloth). $23.95 (paper). $14.37 (ebook). Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition. By Liat Ben-Moshe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. xiii + 283 pages. $120.00 (cloth). $30.00 (paper). $16.50 (ebook). Psychoanalysis in the Barrios…
The Real End of a Nightmare
This article considers Jane Arden’s 1972 film The Other Side of The Underneath, a neglected work of British feminist experimental cinema that focused on experimental group therapy. Building upon the theatrical productions of Holocaust, a short-lived feminist group that Arden started in 1970, Arden’s theatrical and cinematic projects from the early 1970s involved both professional actors and untrained participants in a strange admixture of theatre…
The Bright Shapes Were Going”
The article considers a theatrical adaptation of the “Benjy Chapter” from William Faulkner’s 1928 novel The Sound and the Fury created by the experimental theatre company Elevator Repair Service (ERS) and presented at the Public Theater in New York in the spring of 2015. Told from the perspective of Benjy Compson, Faulkner’s text contains one of the most significant and complex representations of a mentally disabled character in modern American l…
Living On
Review Article| October 01 2018 Living On A Body, Undone: Living On after Great PainChristina Crosby New York: New York University Press, 2016. xi + 208 pp. Leon J. Hilton Leon J. Hilton Leon J. Hilton is assistant professor of theatre arts and performance studies at Brown University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2018) 24 (4): 557–559. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-6957954 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
Madness Is Contagious”
A marathon adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s epic novel 2666 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre revealed how the act of artistic creation has become implicated in the global machinery of political violence. Repeated throughout the five-hour play, the refrain “madness is contagious” seems to permeate 2666 like the stench of a body left to decompose on the side of a road
Avonte's Law
This article situates recent policy proposals designed to expand the technological surveillance and policing of the "wandering" tendencies ascribed to autistic subjects in relationship to longer histories involving the surveillance of blackness and disability, and maintains that that such proposals are inadequate to sustaining the persistence and flourishing of autistic and other neurologically divergent forms-of-life. Drawing from discussions of…
Mad Futures
Mad Futures:Affect/Theory/Violence Tanja Aho (bio), Liat Ben-Moshe (bio), and Leon J. Hilton (bio) The Affect of Violence In the summer of 2016 a North Miami police officer shoots a black man lying on his back with his hands raised. The man is Charles Kinsey, a behavioral therapist. So far, this would seem to be an example of the all-too-common occurrence of racialized police violence in the contemporary United States. Yet next to Kinsey sits his…
Sensational flesh
How does (bodily) sensation become attached to (political and social) difference?This question animates Amber Musser’s book Sensational flesh: Race, power, and masochism. The answers her book provi
Presence, Rhetoric, Difference
A deceptively straightforward performance work created by French choreographer Jérôme Bel in collaboration with the company members of Zurich's Theater HORA, Disabled Theater subtly challenges the normative conventions of theatrical spectatorship and hints at forms of sociality that can flourish beyond the margins of standard or typical cognition
The Horse in My Flesh
In 2011 the French artists Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, who since 1991 have worked together as the art collaborative Art Orienté Objet, created a performance titled Que le cheval vive en moi (May the Horse Live in Me). In the piece, which took several months to complete, Laval-Jeantet received a series of transfusions of blood plasma drawn from the body of a horse. This essay considers the intensively physical dimensions of Art Orienté…
“Flip Off the Mirror as Protest”: Xiu Xiu and the Cause of Desire
Mad Futures
Mad Futures:Affect/Theory/Violence Tanja Aho (bio), Liat Ben-Moshe (bio), and Leon J. Hilton (bio) The Affect of Violence In the summer of 2016 a North Miami police officer shoots a black man lying on his back with his hands raised. The man is Charles Kinsey, a behavioral therapist. So far, this would seem to be an example of the all-too-common occurrence of racialized police violence in the contemporary United States. Yet next to Kinsey sits his…
The Horse in My Flesh
In 2011 the French artists Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, who since 1991 have worked together as the art collaborative Art Orienté Objet, created a performance titled Que le cheval vive en moi (May the Horse Live in Me). In the piece, which took several months to complete, Laval-Jeantet received a series of transfusions of blood plasma drawn from the body of a horse. This essay considers the intensively physical dimensions of Art Orienté…
Avonte's Law
This article situates recent policy proposals designed to expand the technological surveillance and policing of the "wandering" tendencies ascribed to autistic subjects in relationship to longer histories involving the surveillance of blackness and disability, and maintains that that such proposals are inadequate to sustaining the persistence and flourishing of autistic and other neurologically divergent forms-of-life. Drawing from discussions of…
“Flip Off the Mirror as Protest”: Xiu Xiu and the Cause of Desire
The Horse in My Flesh
In 2011 the French artists Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, who since 1991 have worked together as the art collaborative Art Orienté Objet, created a performance titled Que le cheval vive en moi (May the Horse Live in Me). In the piece, which took several months to complete, Laval-Jeantet received a series of transfusions of blood plasma drawn from the body of a horse. This essay considers the intensively physical dimensions of Art Orienté…
Presence, Rhetoric, Difference
A deceptively straightforward performance work created by French choreographer Jérôme Bel in collaboration with the company members of Zurich's Theater HORA, Disabled Theater subtly challenges the normative conventions of theatrical spectatorship and hints at forms of sociality that can flourish beyond the margins of standard or typical cognition
Sensational flesh
How does (bodily) sensation become attached to (political and social) difference?This question animates Amber Musser’s book Sensational flesh: Race, power, and masochism. The answers her book provi
Madness Is Contagious”
A marathon adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s epic novel 2666 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre revealed how the act of artistic creation has become implicated in the global machinery of political violence. Repeated throughout the five-hour play, the refrain “madness is contagious” seems to permeate 2666 like the stench of a body left to decompose on the side of a road
Avonte's Law
This article situates recent policy proposals designed to expand the technological surveillance and policing of the "wandering" tendencies ascribed to autistic subjects in relationship to longer histories involving the surveillance of blackness and disability, and maintains that that such proposals are inadequate to sustaining the persistence and flourishing of autistic and other neurologically divergent forms-of-life. Drawing from discussions of…
Mad Futures
Mad Futures:Affect/Theory/Violence Tanja Aho (bio), Liat Ben-Moshe (bio), and Leon J. Hilton (bio) The Affect of Violence In the summer of 2016 a North Miami police officer shoots a black man lying on his back with his hands raised. The man is Charles Kinsey, a behavioral therapist. So far, this would seem to be an example of the all-too-common occurrence of racialized police violence in the contemporary United States. Yet next to Kinsey sits his…
The Bright Shapes Were Going”
The article considers a theatrical adaptation of the “Benjy Chapter” from William Faulkner’s 1928 novel The Sound and the Fury created by the experimental theatre company Elevator Repair Service (ERS) and presented at the Public Theater in New York in the spring of 2015. Told from the perspective of Benjy Compson, Faulkner’s text contains one of the most significant and complex representations of a mentally disabled character in modern American l…
Living On
Review Article| October 01 2018 Living On A Body, Undone: Living On after Great PainChristina Crosby New York: New York University Press, 2016. xi + 208 pp. Leon J. Hilton Leon J. Hilton Leon J. Hilton is assistant professor of theatre arts and performance studies at Brown University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2018) 24 (4): 557–559. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-6957954 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
The Real End of a Nightmare
This article considers Jane Arden’s 1972 film The Other Side of The Underneath, a neglected work of British feminist experimental cinema that focused on experimental group therapy. Building upon the theatrical productions of Holocaust, a short-lived feminist group that Arden started in 1970, Arden’s theatrical and cinematic projects from the early 1970s involved both professional actors and untrained participants in a strange admixture of theatre…
Psychopower and Psychopolitics
Psychopower and Psychopolitics Leon J. Hilton (bio) Black Madness :: Mad Blackness. By Therí Alyce Pickens. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. xvi + 113 pages. $89.95 (cloth). $23.95 (paper). $14.37 (ebook). Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition. By Liat Ben-Moshe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. xiii + 283 pages. $120.00 (cloth). $30.00 (paper). $16.50 (ebook). Psychoanalysis in the Barrios…
The Unwieldy Otherwise
This project presents a syllabus that emerged out of an ongoing set of discussions between the two co-authors about how Black, Southern theatre and performance traditions—as well as embodied and transmitted genealogies of community engagement and activism—informed the intellectual, social, and political commitments that have suffused performance studies from its origins as an academic discipline. These discussions allowed us to generate a syllabu…
An Introduction
Performances and performative instantiations respond to the urgencies of “pressure” and its effects. What is the work of performance when wrung by such pressures as financial constraint, racial subordination, misogyny, and sexism
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