Performance Research. Volume 23, Issue 6: On Generosity

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On Generosity offers critical examinations of the ethics and practices of generosity, as well as generosity’s inherent performativity. Without recourse to a naïve faith in its potential, but also without devolving into cynicism about its limits, this volume takes a fresh look at how generosity appears in performance and how generosity is performed. Contributors analyse practices and discourses of generosity in political and economic interventions, in everyday life, in social practice art and as represented in theatrical performances. Generosity is considered as a performative relation, and the volume includes enquiries into the generosity and generativity that may lie at the heart of performance itself. This is amplified in a special showcase section, ‘Cabinet of Generosities’, which proliferates examples of performance works that engage generosity as practice and as theme.EditorialLaurie Beth Clark, Michael Peterson
A Rhapsody For YouHelen Paris
To Offer/To Exchange : A conversationLauren van Haaften-Schick, Charles Simonds
Toxic Colonialism and the Gesture of GenerosityJisha Menon
To Be UndonePatrick Anderson
Whole Parts : On rupture and the other side of generosity [artists' pages]Jeannine Shinoda
Have I Done Enough? : Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton’s culture of generosityLaura MacDonald
Performing Philanthropy from Andrew Carnegie to Bill GatesAlisa Zhulina
Radical Care : Performative generosity and generativity in Third TheatreJane Turner, Patrick Campbell
Assister au Spectacle [artists' pages]Julia-Kristina Bauer, Carl Lavery
The Gift of Cake : Baking together in performanceJenny Lawson
Even Better than the Real Thing : Economies of ontological authenticity in socially engaged art practiceCiaran Smyth
Performing Labour’s (Non)Futures : Universal basic income and the monetary imaginationChristian Riley Nagler
Contagion as Method : Generating stages of enunciationAnyely Marín Cisneros, Rebecca Close
Cabinet of GenerositiesClara Rocha, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Nick Kline, Tomaž Krpič, Kirsty Máté, Kirsty Máté, Walmeri Ribeiro, Arianna Richardson, Cristiane Bouger, Joseph Connelly, Carolyn Defrin, Mark Flisher, Mark Flisher, Richard Gough, Mark Harvey
Letter to the Editors [artists’ pages]Mick Douglas, Amaara Raheem
Notes on Contributors