Hear Tell: Describing, Reporting, Narrating

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Notes

1. Joe Kelleher, The Illuminated Theatre: Studies on the Suffering of Images (London and New York: Routledge, 2015), 22.

2. Michael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish and Brandon Woolf, ‘Introduction: Form and Postdramatic Theatre’, in Postdramatic Theatre and Form, eds. Michael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish and Brandon Woolf (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), 1–19 (7–10).

3. Ibid, 1.

4. Georgina Guy and Johanna Linsley, ‘Retrospective Remarks on Rose English, Mona Hatoum, and Ana Mendieta: Where Is Performance?’ in Reconstructing Performance Art: Practices of Historicisation, Documentation and Representation, ed. Tancredi Gusman (London: Routledge, 2023), 209–228.

5. In 2014, the activist group Plan C posted an anonymously authored article to their website titled ‘We Are All Very Anxious’ that diagnoses an early 21^st-century collective psychology. The Institute for Precarious Consciousness, ‘We Are All Very Anxious Six Theses on Anxiety and Why It is Effectively Preventing Militancy, and One Possible Strategy for Overcoming It’, 2014 https://www.weareplanc.org/blog/we-are-all-very-anxious/ [accessed July 23, 2023]. For discussions in a contemporary performance context, see Patrick Duggan, ‘Unsettling the Audience: Affective Dis-ease and the Politics of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Performance’, Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism 15 (2017): 40–54.

6. Sianne Ngai, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012).

7. The editors would like to acknowledge to work of subsequent convenors of the Documenting Performance working group in carrying on these conversations. These are Harriet Curtis, Diana Damian Martin and Eleanor Roberts, and current convenors Emma Bennett, Rebecca Collins and Vanessa Macauley.

8. As Guy notes later in the issue, this term helps draw attention to the social and political dimensions of disease.

9. Theron Schmidt, ‘How We Talk About the Work Is the Work: Performing Critical Writing’, Performance Research 23, no. 2 (2018): 37–43.