My chapter ‘Hacking the archives: the 2012 Olympic legacy, fun palaces and game theatre’ will appear in this new volume about the director, actor and teacher Clive Barker in March 2022. The chapter looks at Barker’s legacy in the context …
Author: Joseph Dunne-Howrie
New article in Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
The pandemic is creating the conditions for a new telos of globalisation to emerge in humanity’s historical consciousness, which is not expressed in ideological terms, but is instead rendered as a fluid reality of corporeality and virtuality structured by the …
New Article in Studies in Theatre and Performance
My article ‘Networked Audience Participation: The Futurity of Post-Brexit Democracy in One Day, Maybe and Operation Black Antler‘ has now been published in a special edition of Studies in Theatre and Performance titled Performance and the Right: Strategies and …
Thoughts on Decolonising the Curriculum
I’d been reading around ideas apropos decolonising the curriculum for a little while, but Black Lives Matter made me sit up and pay attention and compelled me to engage with the movement with a greater level of rigour .I first …
Forced Entertainment, Media Reality and Chairman Mao
Forced Entertainment’s corpus ‘can be broadly categorised as being driven by questions about the viability of theatre as a representational medium in an age of simulation’ (Gorman 2015, p.190). The company’s director Tim Etchells succinctly describes their work as theatre …