This bold book investigates how performance can transform the way people perceive trauma and memory, time and history. Jaclyn I. Pryor introduces the concept of "time slips," moments in which past, present, and future coincide, moments that challenge American narratives of racial and sexual citizenship. Framing performance as a site of resistance, Pryor analyzes their own work and that of four other queer artists--Ann Carlson, Mary Ellen Strom, Peggy Shaw, and Lisa Kron--between 2001 and 2016. Pryor illuminates how each artist deploys performance as a tool to render history visible,...
This bold book investigates how performance can transform the way people perceive trauma and memory, time and history. Jaclyn I. Pryor introduces the ...
This bold book investigates how performance can transform the way people perceive trauma and memory, time and history. Jaclyn I. Pryor introduces the concept of "time slips," moments in which past, present, and future coincide, moments that challenge American narratives of racial and sexual citizenship. Framing performance as a site of resistance, Pryor analyzes their own work and that of four other queer artists--Ann Carlson, Mary Ellen Strom, Peggy Shaw, and Lisa Kron--between 2001 and 2016. Pryor illuminates how each artist deploys performance as a tool to render history visible,...
This bold book investigates how performance can transform the way people perceive trauma and memory, time and history. Jaclyn I. Pryor introduces the ...