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  1. Apr 2025
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  3. Sep 2023
    1. Water Rites reflected how we all perform‘water rites’ in our everyday lives and how theserites variously pervade our culture beautifully,happily and tragically

      What Water Rites was about**

    1. We struggle to forge a unique and unifying mission aroundthe triangulations of these three pivot points
      1. accomplishment - the making of art and remaking of culture; performance as a way of knowing

      2. analysis - the interpretation of art and culture; knowledge that comes from contemplation and comparison; concentrated attention and contextualization as a way of knowing

      3. articulation - activism, outreach, connection to community; knowledge that is tested by practice within a community; social commitment, collaboration, and contribution/intervention as a way of knowing: praxis.

    2. We can think through performancealong three crisscrossing lines of activity and analysis
      1. as a work of imagination, as an object of study
      2. as a pragmatics of inquiry
      3. as a tactics of intervention, an alternative place for struggle
    3. terms, Raymond Williams challenged the class-based arroganceof scriptocentrism, pointing to the "error" and "delusion" of "highly educated"people who are "so driven in on their reading" that "they fail to notice that thereare other forms of skilled, intelligent, creative activity" such as "theatre" and"active politics." This er

    4. Raymond Williams challenged the class-based arroganceof scriptocentrism, pointing to the "error" and "delusion" of "highly educated"people who are "so driven in on their reading" that "they fail to notice that thereare other forms of skilled, intelligent, creative activity" such as "theatre" and"active politics." This

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      performance studies is sympathetic to the avant-garde, the marginal, the offbeat, the minoritarian, the subversive, the twisted, the queer, people of color, and the formerly colonized.

    1. Guillermo Gémez-Pejfia’sand Coco Fusco’s Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit theWest (1992), a performance is reflexive.

      Guillermo Gómez-Peña's and Coco Fusco's Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West (1992) - a performance is reflexive.

    2. “to perform” is to show off, to go to extremes,to underline an action for those who are watching.

      performance happens in everyday life, not just on stage and on television. It can simply be showing up "for those who are watching."

      Being --> existence itself Doing -- activity of all that exists, "from quarks to sentient beings to super-galactic strings." Showing doing --> performing Explaining "showing doing" --> performance studies

  4. Jan 2023