Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain
- Author: Beitiks, Meghan
Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain
- Author: Beitiks, Meghan
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About
How might performance serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain, in humans and ecologies?
While reflecting on her multidisciplinary work Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience, artist Meghan Moe Beitiks considers bodies of knowledge in Trauma Theory, Intersectional Feminist Philosophy, Ecology, Disability Studies, New Materialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, Gender Studies, Artistic Research, Psychology, Performance Studies, Social Justice, Performance Philosophy, Performance Art, and a series of first-person interviews in an attempt to answer that question. Beitiks brings us through the first-person process of making the work and the real-life, embodied encounters with the theories explored within it as an expansion of the work itself. Facing down difficult issues like trauma, discrimination, and the vulnerability of the body, Beitiks looks to commonalities across species and disciplines as means of developing resilience and cultivating communities. Rather than paint a picture of glorious potential utopias, Beitiks takes a hard look at herself as an embodiment of the values explored in the work, and stays with the difficult, sucky, troubling, work to be done.
Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain is a vulnerable book about the quiet presence and hard looking needed to shift systems away from their oppressive, destructive realities.
Contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: The Necessity and Danger of Empathy (Moment 1), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy
- Chapter 2: Trauma & Theory: (Nebraska), with Audio Description by Emily Smith Beitiks
- Chapter 3: Human/Non-human/More-than-human Relationships (New York), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy
- Chapter 4: Categories, Stigma and Listening (Installation One), with Audio Description by Emily Smith Beitiks
- Chapter 5: Failure that Lives in the Body (Portrait) (aka: "Androgynous [Gender] Queer White Wom@x#y!n Looks at Her Actions, Things, Feelings." This chapter is intended for privileged identities.)
- Chapter 6: What I Can't See (New York 2), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy
- Chapter 7: Surrender (Moment 2), created with Katie Murphy
- Chapter 8: Water and Other Obvious Connective Forces (Santa Fe), with Audio Description by Adam Harvey and photos by Jane Phillips
- Chapter 9: Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Exhibition)
- List of contributors
- Index
- Emily Beitiks, San Francisco State University, Menlo College, USA. Beitiks received a Ph.D. in American Studies with a focus in Disability Studies at the University of Minnesota. She has taught at the University of Minnesota, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, and
- Adam Harvey, actor and James Joyce scholar, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Harvey is currently working on content for his continuing web series, "DON'T PANIC: it's only Finnegans Wake" - interpretive animations of, and tutorials on, Joyce's great cryptic mas
- Katie Murphy , freelance audio describer, autistic self-advocate, and higher education professional based in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. Accountable to her vibrant, local disability community, her audio description explores the social context and po
- Jane Phillips, photographer, New Mexico, USA.
