CONFIDING [electronic resource].

Blackwood Gallery 2023

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What brings you here? Tucked in this broadsheet, you’ll find a postcard with a link to our first readership survey. With this milestone fifteenth issue, CONFIDING, we’re hoping to learn more from SDUK readers—what resonates with you, what draws you in to each issue (or doesn’t), and what might inform our future issues. Appropriately, this issue addresses trust and collaboration: the tools, methods, and strategies collaborators use to build mutual confidence while working together. With an international slate of largely coauthored contributions, this issue models forms of experimental and collaborative authorship through letters, exercises, interviews, oral histories, and more. Our survey asks: Where are you located? Contributors to this issue pose this question—in its most expansive sense—to con- sider how individuals’ positionality affects their working methods. The Post-Film Collective, whose members include “refugees, asylum seekers, sans-papiers, documented citizens,” shares a letter exchange that sheds light on how they work together across difference (p. 14). For quori theodor (p. 23), similar considerations are taken up at the dinner table, where new shared experiences are occasioned by dining together. If confiding hinges on trust and vulnerability, readers with an interest in the performing arts might wonder: How to build trust and consent in performance? For Jess Watkin, disability dramaturgy serves as a welcome intervention to rethink the relationships between performer, stage, and audience in the theatre (p. 10). Describing his work with Partnering Lab, Ilya Vidrin theorizes the “thresholds of resistance” that mediate physical contact by dancers and movement artists—and how these negotiations shape interactions beyond the stage (p. 4)…
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Tasha Beeds
Elspeth Brown
Quill Christie-Peters
Tonatiuh López
Performance RAR
Agung Eko Sutrisno
Muhammad Gerly
Agesna Johdan
Bagong Julianto
The Post-Film Collective
Marcus Bergner
Sawsan Maher
Mirra Markhaëva
Robin Vanbesien
Elli Vassalou
Vania Gonzalvez Rodriguez
Heather Kai Smith
Alisha Stranges
Michelle Sylliboy
quori theodor
Ilya Vidrin
Jess Watkin
Matthew Hoffman
Alan Woo
Joy Xiang