Interventions Winter/Spring 2019/20
Editorial by issue editor Eleanor Roberts, with Ella Parry-Davies, Aneta Mancewicz, Bella Poynton, and Broderick Chow
Logic of prelude: on use value, pleasure, and the struggle against agony
Giulia Palladini theorizes the musical ‘prelude’ as a temporal structure that actualizes possible futures in the present.
Exhaustion and Its Entanglements: Relational Ethos, Minoritarian Positionality, and These Political Times
Asif Majid reexamines Octopus from “Entangling the British Muslim Woman” through the personal lens of minoritarian positionality, and the exhaustion it can produce specifically for Muslim artists.
Nearly four years in nearly four minutes: fat, queer, dance and time
Charlotte Cooper’s video and text documents a process of exploring ‘queer feminist fat sensibility, experience and possibility’, which challenges exclusionary and ableist notions of dance.
Wir sind das Volk!: The Unspoken Spell Cast on the Peaceful Revolutionaries
In the context of Hong Kong protests and her installation & performance in Leipzig, Wir sind das Volk! (December 2019), wen yau reflects on the power of a peaceful revolution and the fragility of freedom.