TaPRA 2024 Bodies and Performance working group

Deadline: April 10, 2024
Dynamics of desire: A politicised methodology towards pleasure-fuelled research In the woozy afterglow of our investigations last year into the ways in which Critical Hunk and Babe Studies might be mobilised to critique oppressive structures and aesthetic regimes of whiteness, ableism and cisgenderism, we have lingered in the possibilities of centring the pleasures and desires of the researcher of performance. Last year’s presentations were pervaded by a spectrum of desires – from...