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Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – Mangrove

We mustn’t be victims, but protagonists of our own story

I want this line spray painted across every government briefing and policy document relating to modern race and racism. It feels like it could be spoken by a Spiked contrarian …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on November 19, 2020November 19, 2020Categories BlogTags Academia, Higher Education, racism, Small Axe, Theatre

Theatre, Liberalism and Racism

The toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol by Black Lives Matter protestors over the summer has sparked an important debate about the ways we remember and commemorate history. I’ve been thinking about ways the performing arts contribute to …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on October 27, 2020October 27, 2020Categories BlogTags racism, Research, Stuart Hall, Theatre

Recent Posts

  • The Internet as a Performance Medium
    In Blog
    ‘Art is presented on the Internet as a specific kind of reality: as a working process, or even life process, taking place in the real, offline world’ (Groys 2018, p.174) Live performance has migrated online since theatres closed in March 2020. […]
  • To Be A Machine by Dead Centre
    In Blog
    They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Transhumanists disagree with the first one. This Silicon Valley sub-culture treat death as a disease that can be cured if humans learnt to update our wetware for purely artificial models. In […]
  • Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – Mangrove
    In Blog
    We mustn't be victims, but protagonists of our own story I want this line spray painted across every government briefing and policy document relating to modern race and racism. It feels like it could be spoken by a Spiked contrarian or conservative […]
  • Alternatives to the Academic Essay
    In Blog
    During lockdown I was amazed at the quality of online work the students produced for the performative writing module I teach at Rose Bruford, so much so that I and the programme directors have decided to make a permanent change to the assessments so […]
  • Crave at Chichester Festival
    In Blog
    I think this was the first show I bought a ticket for in lockdown. It was worth the wait (although I'm still much more interested in theatre produced for the medium of the internet than shows which are live streamed - it's always second best). […]
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