TaPRA 2026: Bodies and Performance

Deadline: March 9, 2026
2026 Theme—The Changing Body in Performance: Mourning, Shedding and Modification At Warwick in 2025, we were struck by the emergence of two major themes: mourning and modification. Phoebe Patey-Ferguson considered the pleasure-dulling qualities of GLP-1s, and how their rapid promotion by the state and celebrity culture makes fatphobia a technique of fascism. Roberta Mock thought with late performance artist Danielle Abrams’ body of work, and how ‘gender, race and religion alchemically...