Performing Statelessness

Creative Conversations between First Peoples and Refugees

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ID22190895
AuthorsTania Cañas (0000-0002-6014-0094), Ruth De Souza (MIT University), Genevieve Grieves, Danny Butt (0000-0002-5708-9160, The University of Melbourne)
Year2023
Volume5
Issue1-2
Publication date2023-06-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Performance Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2574-027X • E-ISSN: 2574-027X
PublisherPerformance Studies international (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.33303/gpsv5n1-2a104
OpenAlexW4381168007
LanguageEN
References cited24

Performing Statelessness is a creative and practice-led research initiative that foregrounds stateless communities’ voices and lived experience to investigate what it means to be stateless in the context of Australia. This project extends the legal notion of ‘stateless’, generally used to discuss national citizenship, to stage an encounter between practicing artists who identify as having a First Peoples, asylum seeker or refugee background to understand the connections between communities experiencing disposession and displacement by the colonial nation-state form. The interedisciplinary performance lab at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum explored the potential of performance as a de-instrumentalising and anti-extractive modality within a collaborative research process, understanding that communities can be the source of their own theory, and the starting and ending point of value

Archaeology · Citizenship · Geography · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Stateless protocol · Statelessness · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Irish and British Studies · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage

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