Reclaiming the margins
Collective resistance and feminist artistic practices in Putin’s Russia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21721929 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Listengarten (0000-0002-6068-2600, University of Central Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 91-97 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Theatre and Performance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2761 • E-ISSN: 2040-0616 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14682761.2024.2341372 |
| OpenAlex | W4399717029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
In this provocation, I grapple with questions concerning the legacy and impact of radical feminist performance in Russia’s repressive political climate and the possibility of collective resistance through performance. I address the devastating effects of the increasingly totalitarian regime on the work of radical feminist performers such as Pussy Riot, Darya Apakhonchich, and Katrin Nenasheva. The likelihood of surviving as a politically engaged performer-activist – as an outsider inside Russia – has been completely obliterated by the Kremlin but solidarity and collective resistance within and across national borders generate the sites of possibility to dream, imagine, and create together which, as Sara Ahmed (2014 [2004]: 181) reminds us, ‘energises the hope of transformation.’ In tracing the trajectory of precarity and hope in Russia’s current feminist artistic practices rooted in collective resistance, I employ the politics of relation as a framework that places the bodies of performers in relation to ‘others to whom [they] belong as inseparable, not separate’ thus creating ‘affective ties’ with others (Aimee Carrillo Rowe 2005, 27). This is an expanded version of a provocation prepared for the ‘Collective Resistance’ roundtable at the Borderlines IX: Seeking Solidarity and Wonder Through Performance conference at De Montfort University in 2022
Aesthetics · Art · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |