Autofictions in Co-labouring

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In this co-authored text, the Dissonant Co-Labouring Key Group examines the difficulties, gaps, political slippages and entanglements of collaboration in its encounter with artistic and educational institutions. Engaging autofiction as a scholarly mode with different models of co-authorship, the Key Group move through critical engagements with working conditions, temporalities of labour and its instrumentalisation within and beyond universities and cultural ecologies. Dialoguing with a plurality of voices and registers, the text invokes adjacent and overlapping temporalities of working together, attends to different modalities of critical thought and collapses the distinction between the fictive and the real.  

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Diana Damian Martin

Dr Diana Damian Martin is Senior Lecturer in Performance Arts and Course Leader, BA Hons Experimental Arts and Performance, at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. As a researcher and artist, her work concerns alternative critical epistemologies and feminist modes of exchange, interventionist and political performance, and the politics of migration, with a distinct focus on Eastern Europe. She is a co-founder of Migrants in Culture, works collaboratively with collectives Critical Interruptions, Department of Feminist Conversations, and Generative Constraints, and is Lexicon Officer for Performance Studies International.

Daniela Perazzo

Dr Daniela Perazzo is Associate Professor in Dance Studies and Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the School of Arts at Kingston University London. Her research interrogates the intersections of the aesthetic and the political in contemporary choreography, focusing on the ethical, po(i)etic, and critical potentialities of experimental and collaborative practices. She has published in Performance Philosophy, Performance Research, Dance Research Journal, Choreographic Practices, and Contemporary Theatre Review. Her monograph Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance was published by Palgrave in 2019. She was co-convenor of the Theatre, Performance and Philosophy Working Group of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) between 2018 and 2022. Currently, she is co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project “The Dancing Otherwise Network: Exploring Pluriversal Practices” (2023–25).

Nik Wakefield

Dr Nik Wakefield is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Performance at University of Portsmouth and Course Leader of BA (Hons) Drama and Performance. He is a researcher, artist, and writer working mostly in performance but also across dance, theatre, and visual art. His research is concerned with theoretical issues of time and ecology in contemporary performance and art practices. Wakefield’s solo and collaborative performances have been shown in UK, USA, and Europe. His writing has been published in journals such as Performance Research, Maska, Choreographic Practices, Contemporary Theatre Review, and TDR. Wakefield is co-convener of the working group in Theatre, Performance, and Philosophy in the Theatre and Performance Research Association.

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30-12-2024

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2024): Performance Philosophy Problems

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