Hard Labour and Punitive Welfare: The Unemployed Body at Work in Participatory Performance

Autor/in	Bartley, Sarah
Titel	Hard Labour and Punitive Welfare: The Unemployed Body at Work in Participatory Performance
Quelle	In: Research in Drama Education, 22 (2017) 1, S.62-75 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-9783
DOI	10.1080/13569783.2016.1263559
Schlagwörter	Unemployment; Foreign Countries; Theater Arts; Youth; Participation; Art Activities; Labor Market; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitslosigkeit; Ausland; Theaterwissenschaft; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Teilnahme; Künstlerische Tätigkeit; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article addresses the performance of labour in participatory arts projects and considers the implications of such activity on perceptions of the unemployed in the UK. Utilising a combination of biopolitical and necropolitical understandings of governance and drawing on two examples of theatre practice, Tangled Feet's "One Million" (2013) and Helix Arts' "MindFULL" (2013), I propose that participatory performance deploys bodily strategies to disrupt the construction of the unemployed in political rhetoric. As such, in a context of austerity, I argue this arts practice can function to support the agency of participants in challenging policy and seeking to re-establish the status of subjecthood to their precarious bodies. Additionally, I posit that specificities of the unemployed as a participant group illuminate broader complexities around value exchange within participatory arts practice. (As Provided).
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