Remote intimations
Performance art and environmental illness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15080938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Bottoms (University of Leeds), Julie Laffin (Art Institute of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229-246 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in Drama Education The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9783 • E-ISSN: 1470-112X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569783.2012.670424 |
| OpenAlex | W2146250807 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article explores and documents the work of leading Midwestern performance artist Julie Laffin, in the years since she developed a serious form of environmental illness (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity). This condition has effectively rendered her housebound and unable to appear in public, so that her previous live performance practice – which typically took place in public, urban spaces – has necessarily been curtailed. In attempting to reinvent her practice by other means (including performances by proxy, video and sound works, etc.), Laffin has gradually moved towards a more activist stance on environmental issues, while attempting to maintain a strongly personal aesthetic. Performance art has often been regarded as a form of intensely individual, even ‘narcissistic’ creative expression, and this article asks what it might mean to consider environmentalism through such a personal creative lens. The discussion takes the form of a dialogue between Laffin and Stephen Bottoms, who has variously been a critic of her work, a collaborator in it, and a friend
Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Political science · Politics · Proxy (statistics · Public relations · Sociology · Visual arts · Work (physics · Computer Science · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Engineering · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |