Socially Engaged Creative Practice: Contemporary Case Studies by Jess Moriarty (University of Brighton)
This isthe second book in the Performance and Communities series. An edited collection from academics and artistsengages with both these notions ofperformance that of identities in and throughtime and space - and of more formal instances ofspecific time-limited performances; textual, embodied, visual and communal.
Each chapterfocuses on an individual or groups mode ofworking and methodological practice ofperformance across a range of modes, disciplinesand media from community opera to onlinequeer performance, from anti-racist class-room pedagogy to 1980s cabaret in nightclubs, fromcommunity art projects in schools to communitywriting projects in transport interchanges, theperformers, writers and creators represented hereall engage and grapple with contemporaryperformance as a situated practice and as aproblematic.
The personal perspective of eachperformer directors, librettists, producers,writers, performers is explicitly located in acommunity and the book offers a series of casestudies detailing socially engaged work that alignswith concepts of performance and community.