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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 |
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| 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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