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While currently identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend to simplify and reduce life experience to simple factors are globally regaining massive attention, it becomes inevitable to recollect the thorough discussions of identity concepts of the past three decades. It also calls for an ever keener awareness of and capacity to deal with the complexity and diversity of the world we live in. Artists play a major role in the potential reflection and transformation of perceptions and conceptions of the world – musicians, dancers, choreographers, spoken word artists, performance artists, actors, also fine art, installation, media artists or photographers alike. “Performing critical identity” points to performative practices of artists that bring to the fore a critical (self-)awareness and (self-)positioning concerning identification and belonging. Social identities such as gender, sexuality, race, class, dis/ability, age or non/religiosity are closely linked to the historical, social, regional and political dimensions of their formation. From this perspective, identities are hardly one-dimensional but complex and intersectional, and are rather to be thought of as a process of identification and belonging than as a consistent essence.
Keywords: Performative Practices; Critical Identity; Diversity; Intersectionality; Performativity of aesthetics
Contents
Under Construction: Performing Critical Identity—A Short Introduction
Acknowledgments
About the Editor and Authors
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I Am Black Now: A Phenomenologically Grounded Autoethnography of Becoming Black in Berlin
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Subverting Identity: Cesare Viel’s Performative Works
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“Let’s Listen with Our Eyes ...” The Deconstruction of Deafness in Christine Sun Kim’s Sound Art
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Makhubu, Seriti Se, Basupa Tsela—Where We’re at According to Lerato Shadi
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“Transgressing” Wisdom and Elderhood in Times of War? The Shifting Identity of the Elderly Queen in the Performance
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Voicing Challenge: Trans* Singers and the Performance of Vocal Gender
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Queer Abstraction: Visual Strategies to See New Queer Futures
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“A Motherfucker is a Werewolf”: Gang Identity and Avant-Garde Rebellion in Up Against the Wall Motherfucker and
the International Werewolf Conspiracy (1968–1970) -
Shifting Identities of Feminism to Challenge Classical Music Canon Practices: A Beginners Guide to Guerrilla Gender Musicology
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Curatorial Account
Precarious Art: How an Intersectional Approach to Exhibiting Led to Multi-Dimensional Performances of Identity
Review Mode
Review by editor and external reviewers.