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| Id | 908 | |
| Author | Bartley S. | |
| Title | Hard labour and punitive welfare: the unemployed body at work in participatory performance | |
| Reference | Bartley S.; Hard labour and punitive welfare: the unemployed body at work in participatory performance ;Research in Drama Education vol:22.0 issue: 1.0 page:62.0 |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015675527&doi=10.1080%2f13569783.2016.1263559&partnerID=40&md5=7b487719d8f2917c26031947f2e6b2e1 |
| Abstract | This article addresses the performance of labour in participatory arts projects and considers the implications of such activity on perceptions of the unemployed in the UK. Utilising a combination of biopolitical and necropolitical understandings of governance and drawing on two examples of theatre practice, Tangled Feet’s One Million (2013) and Helix Arts MindFULL (2013), I propose that participatory performance deploys bodily strategies to disrupt the construction of the unemployed in political rhetoric. As such, in a context of austerity, I argue this arts practice can function to support the agency of participants in challenging policy and seeking to re-establish the status of subjecthood to their precarious bodies. Additionally, I posit that specificities of the unemployed as a participant group illuminate broader complexities around value exchange within participatory arts practice. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
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| The piece highlighted the possible intervention this kind of arts practice offers in making visible alternative representations of young people and fostering important sensibilities of collectivity among this group of people. . |
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