To be read alongside Arseli Dokumaci’s contribution to this issue, Katherine Zien’s article treat... more To be read alongside Arseli Dokumaci’s contribution to this issue, Katherine Zien’s article treats questions of ethics, affect, labor, and autonomy in Disabled Theater (DT), a performance created by Swiss performing company Theatre HORA and French choreographer Jérôme Bel. DT evinces traits of the artistic production of both contributors, yet HORA has made the piece its own by touring it around the world, for over 100 performances since its premiere in 2012. For better or worse, DT has become a signature piece for HORA and, in Zien’s terms, a “mobile social realm” offering a space where members of HORA can experiment with new ways of living and working together. The ethical and social dimensions of DT – and company members’ responses to them – have conditioned HORA’s expanded investigation of aesthetic and political control and collaboration that performance scholar Yvonne Schmidt examines in later productions. In addition to providing room for political and aesthetic exploration, D...
To be read alongside Arseli Dokumaci’s contribution to this issue, Katherine Zien’s article treat... more To be read alongside Arseli Dokumaci’s contribution to this issue, Katherine Zien’s article treats questions of ethics, affect, labor, and autonomy in Disabled Theater (DT), a performance created by Swiss performing company Theatre HORA and French choreographer Jérôme Bel. DT evinces traits of the artistic production of both contributors, yet HORA has made the piece its own by touring it around the world, for over 100 performances since its premiere in 2012. For better or worse, DT has become a signature piece for HORA and, in Zien’s terms, a “mobile social realm” offering a space where members of HORA can experiment with new ways of living and working together. The ethical and social dimensions of DT – and company members’ responses to them – have conditioned HORA’s expanded investigation of aesthetic and political control and collaboration that performance scholar Yvonne Schmidt examines in later productions. In addition to providing room for political and aesthetic exploration, D...
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