Elisavet Pakis

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Performances as practices of transformations concerning questions of gender, sexuality, 'ethnicity' and nationalism

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I am doing my PhD between Women's Studies/Anthropology/Sociology and Theatre studies because I want to look at performance/live art practices as situated and embedded in social context(s) and as interacting with it. The geographical contexts I am looking at are performance practices in the UK and Greece.

I am asking questions about performance as an alternative non-violent political action and intervention or transformation concerning feminist, queer and postcolonial issues. I am very interested in processes of marginalisation, social exclusion, abjection and un-belonging. I am asking questions about how socially engaged performance as a practice can open up space for subjectivities that are excluded from the mainstream economies and socially marginalised, and how the poetics of performance can create alternative voice and community for the socially inscribed and subjugated body/bodies; how social abjection can be reworked. I am particularly interested in how bodies are both the site of social inscription of power, but also potential sites of resistance, defying and reworking systems of oppression, and opening up new social spaces. I am very interested in the relational dynamics of the above processes.

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A few of the artists and collectives whose work, vision and projects are site of inspiration for me (there's many more than the few below):

http://www.splitbritches.com/

http://www.artistswithaids.org/artforms/dance/catalogue/tolentino.html

http://mixingitupmanchester.blogspot.com/2007/08/artist-project-1-sphere-dreamz-sphere.html

http://www.iospress.gr/mikro1998/mikro19980404.htm

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