Joy Brooke Fairfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 8552805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joy Brooke Fairfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joy Brooke |
| FAMILY NAME | Fairfield |
| SIGNATURE | FAIRFIELD J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6112-8548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sex Worker Sunday at Judson Memorial Church
In the autumn of 2024, writer, educator, and pleasure activist Veronica Vera sat down with colleague Joy Brooke Fairfield to discuss the inaugural Sex Worker Sunday at Judson Memorial Church. Known for its dedication to social outreach and its commitment to the arts, Judson (as it’s called) has served as a venue for experimental performance in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan since the late 1950s. With support from the senior minis…
Extreme Performance Rituals at the Green New Theater Symposium
This essay engages with two solo performance pieces at the inaugural Green New Theater Symposium held at The VORTEX in Austin, Texas. Mobilizing very different tones, Greer Sikes's SPLOSH! and Eva Margarita's Entierro both feature bodies performing acts in extremis, the first through forced food consumption, and the second through being buried alive. Greer's SPLOSH! cites explicit feminist body performances of the past while articulating somethin…
Performance and Protest as Creative World-Building for Black Liberation
Cuir Devotion
After watching Enzo Vasquez Toral's Cuir Devotion at the Memphis Fringe Festival in 2019, I was curious about the research and performance methodologies that built this humorous and moving hybrid solo piece that features a queer take on a Catholic patron-saint fiesta called the Tunantada in the Peruvian Central Andes. Creator Vasquez Toral is a performance studies scholar who researches the interplay of colonial legacies, Indigenous ways of knowi…
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Cuir Devotion
After watching Enzo Vasquez Toral's Cuir Devotion at the Memphis Fringe Festival in 2019, I was curious about the research and performance methodologies that built this humorous and moving hybrid solo piece that features a queer take on a Catholic patron-saint fiesta called the Tunantada in the Peruvian Central Andes. Creator Vasquez Toral is a performance studies scholar who researches the interplay of colonial legacies, Indigenous ways of knowi…
Performance and Protest as Creative World-Building for Black Liberation
Extreme Performance Rituals at the Green New Theater Symposium
This essay engages with two solo performance pieces at the inaugural Green New Theater Symposium held at The VORTEX in Austin, Texas. Mobilizing very different tones, Greer Sikes's SPLOSH! and Eva Margarita's Entierro both feature bodies performing acts in extremis, the first through forced food consumption, and the second through being buried alive. Greer's SPLOSH! cites explicit feminist body performances of the past while articulating somethin…
Sex Worker Sunday at Judson Memorial Church
In the autumn of 2024, writer, educator, and pleasure activist Veronica Vera sat down with colleague Joy Brooke Fairfield to discuss the inaugural Sex Worker Sunday at Judson Memorial Church. Known for its dedication to social outreach and its commitment to the arts, Judson (as it’s called) has served as a venue for experimental performance in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan since the late 1950s. With support from the senior minis…
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