The Library
Performing like an asylum seeker : paradoxes of hyper-authenticity
Tools
Tools
Tools
Jestrovic, Silvija (2008) Performing like an asylum seeker : paradoxes of hyper-authenticity. Research in Drama Education, Vol.13 (No.2). pp. 159-170. doi:10.1080/13569780802054810
![[img]](http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/application_msword.png) |
Microsoft Word
WRAP_Jestrovic_asylum_paper_kraca_verzija.doc Embargoed item. Restricted access to Repository staff only Download (70Kb) |
|
![[img]](http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png)
|
PDF
WRAP_Jestrovic_asylum_paper_kraca_verzija.pdf - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (79Kb) |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569780802054810
Abstract
This essay investigates performance events that feature actual refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants, but in instances where presence and embodiment are mediated and made ambiguous. My focus is a fashion show by Catalan designer Antonio Miro, who uses refugees from Senegal as models, and Christoph Schlingensief's public art project Foreigners Out!. In different ways and to varying degrees, these case studies exemplify the phenomenon that I call the hyper-authentic - where the authenticity of the subject is partly constructed through the gaze of the beholder. Although the projects in question use real refugees and asylum seekers as performers, exilic voices and bodies are often subordinated to the creative and/or entrepreneurial concepts of the established Western artists. Nevertheless, I would argue that the relationship between performance ethics and efficacy remains ambiguous, making these case studies difficult to dismiss as merely gratuitous.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Art and morals, Refugees in art | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Research in Drama Education | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
| ISSN: | 1356-9783 | ||||
| Official Date: | June 2008 | ||||
| Dates: |
|
||||
| Volume: | Vol.13 | ||||
| Number: | No.2 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 159-170 | ||||
| Identifier: | 10.1080/13569780802054810 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
