Electoral Guerrilla Theatre
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Electoral Guerrilla Theatre
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Author : L.M. Bogad
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-17
Electoral Guerrilla Theatre written by L.M. Bogad and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-17 with Performing Arts categories.
Praise for the First Edition: 'A major contribution to performance studies. If cynicism and political quietism have quelled your impulse to rage against this sorry state of affairs, Bogad demonstrates, with wit and verve, that it is possible to expose the sham and, through a variety of performative tactics, make a meaningful contribution to democracy.' Modern Drama 'A compelling and urgent read. Bogad’s passion for the topic reminds the reader of the exhilaration of live performance and the importance of engagement in democratic life.' Theatre Journal 'Delightfully written and wonderfully provocative ... Valuable reading for any scholar of social movements.' Mobilization 'As a guide to both theory and action, it is insightful, entertaining and indispensable.' Andrew Boyd, Wrangler-in-Chief, Beautiful Trouble 'Beautifully contextualized within social movement theory, this book enlivens the debate about performative interventions into power.'Jan Cohen-Cruz, Editor, Public, A Journal of Imagining America 'Electoral Guerrilla Theatre deals a refreshing wild card in the repertoire of resistance.' Baz Kershaw, Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick, and author of The Radical In Performance. In liberal democracies across the globe, where the right to vote is framed as both civil right and civic duty, disillusioned creative activists run for public office on satiric, ironic and iconoclastic platforms. With little intention of "winning" in the conventional sense, they use drag, camp and stand-up comedy to undermine the legitimacy of their opponents and sometimes the electoral system itself. This revised and updated edition of Electoral Guerrilla Theatre explores the phenomenon of the satirical election campaign, and questions the purpose of such public political performances. Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic research, this is an entertaining and illuminating read that will be invaluable to students and scholars working across a variety of disciplines, including performance studies, the social sciences, cultural studies and politics. New case studies for this edition include: Reverend Billy’s run for Mayor of New York City in 2009; Stephen Colbert’s run for President in 2012; Candidates including Superbarrio, the Best Party, Antanas Mockus, and Einstein the Dog.
Electoral Guerrilla Theatre In Recent Democracies
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Author : Lawrence Michael Bogad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Electoral Guerrilla Theatre In Recent Democracies written by Lawrence Michael Bogad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Theater categories.
Recently in Western democracies, satirical campaigns have emerged as a performative tactic of dissent. These mock-candidates draw on the aesthetics, tactics and techniques of political theatre, irony, parody, stand-up comedy, and camp to undermine the legitimacy of their opponents and sometimes the very electoral system in which they are operating. This study defines and examines this new genre of political protest, "electoral guerrilla theatre."
Performing Truth
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Author : L.M. Bogad
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-29
Performing Truth written by L.M. Bogad and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Performing Arts categories.
Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining, and galvanizing way. How to make data compelling and documents mobilizing? How to keep an audience interested in what might be dry, dire, or depressing? How to surprise an audience and keep them alert? Collecting together the performance texts of international performance artist and activist L.M. Bogad, this book accompanies each script with essays that further explore that work's performance strategies. It also equips readers with specific resources and pedagogical tools to help those wishing to stage these pieces or create their own work to engage with similar topics. Bogad also provides "takeaways" for each piece, illustrating the challenges of its particular subject matter and how to overcome those challenges with innovations unique to performance art. This is a key guidebook for artists and theatre-makers facing the challenges of engaging with information in an era of fake news, propaganda bots, and the polarization of ideological spheres, as well as students and teachers taking on that challenge in theatre studies, performance studies and performing arts classrooms.
Tactical Performance
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Author : L. M. Bogad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Tactical Performance written by L. M. Bogad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Performance art categories.
4 Breaking conventions, breaking into conventions (from the WTO to WTF?) -- PART III Eschew cliché!: on the value of surprise -- 5 Critical simulacra and tricknology: Oil Enforcement Agents, Yes Men, and Survivaballs -- 6 All the news we hope to print: the creation and mass distribution of progressive prank papers -- PART IV Serious but not solemn -- 7 Crisis in Califorlornia: creative protest at the University of California -- Conclusion Earning moments for the movement -- Index
Cointelshow
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Author : L.M. Bogad
language : en
Publisher: PM Press
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Cointelshow written by L.M. Bogad and has been published by PM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Drama categories.
Inform yourself! Inform on your neighbor! Follow Special Agent Christian White on a cheerfully creepy tour of declassified government surveillance documents. White probes the redacted (blacked-out) texts of the FBI’s notorious Counterintelligence Programs, searching for the words erased in the name of the Freedom of Information Act. Learn fun techniques for the infiltration of activist groups, how to earn benefits and a pension as an agent provocateur, and how to, in the words of J. Edgar Hoover, “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize” your neighbors! These are our tax dollars at work, folks; we might as well enjoy it. This script has been performed by writer/activist L.M. Bogad in theatres, galleries, labor halls, and community centers for the past twelve years. The pamphlet also includes a preface by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and a companion essay by Bogad about the history of domestic surveillance/harassment, and a “how to” for would-be performers of the script. Back by popular demand, this new Second Edition adds photos of the original COINTELPRO documents used in the show. There are also many updates to the script: more information, more character development, and more and better jokes, all in the darkly humorous style of the original.
What Is Guerrilla Theatre Anyway
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
What Is Guerrilla Theatre Anyway written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Conscientious objectors categories.
Cultural Activism
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Author : Begüm Özden Firat
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2011-03
Cultural Activism written by Begüm Özden Firat and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume addresses contemporary activist practices that aim to interrupt and reorient politics as well as culture. The specific tactics analyzed here are diverse, ranging from culture jamming, sousveillance, media hoaxing, adbusting, subvertising, street art, to hacktivism, billboard liberation, and urban guerilla, to name but a few. Though indebted to the artistic and political movements of the past, this form of activism brings a novel dimension to public protest with its insistence on humor, playfulness, and confusion. This book attempts to grasp both the old and new aspects of contemporary activist practices, as well as their common characteristics and internal varieties. It attempts to open up space for the acknowledgement of the ways in which contemporary capitalism affects all our lives, and for the reflection on possible modes of struggling with it. It focuses on the possibilities that different activist tactics enable, the ways in which those may be innovative or destructive, as well as on their complications and dilemmas. The encounter between the insights of political, social and critical theory on the one hand and activist visions and struggles on the other is urgent and appealing. The essays collected here all explore such a confrontational collaboration, testing its limits and productiveness, in theory as well as in practice. In a mutually beneficial relationship, theoretical concepts are rethought through activist practices, while those activist practices are developed with the help of the insights of critical theory. This volume brings scholars and activists together in the hope of establishing a productive dialogue between the theorizations of the intricacies of our times and the subversive practices that deal with them.
Rhetoric Humor And The Public Sphere
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Author : Elizabeth Benacka
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-11-02
Rhetoric Humor And The Public Sphere written by Elizabeth Benacka and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-02 with Social Science categories.
Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert investigates classical and contemporary understandings of satire, parody, and irony, and how these genres function within a deliberative democracy. Elizabeth Benacka examines the rhetorical history, theorization, and practice of humor spanning from ancient Greece and Rome to the contemporary United States. In particular, this book focuses on the contemporary work of Stephen Colbert and his parody of a conservative media pundit, analyzing how his humor took place in front of an uninitiated audience and ridiculed a variety of problems and controversies threatening American democracy. Ultimately, Benacka emphasizes the importance of humor as a discourse capable of calling forth a group of engaged citizens and a source of civic education in contemporary society.
Humorous Political Stunts
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Author : Majken Jul Sørensen
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015
Humorous Political Stunts written by Majken Jul Sørensen and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Business & Economics categories.
A group of anti-conscription activists break into a prison, demanding to be jailed together with their friend already locked up because of his beliefs. Clowns from the rebel clown army mimic police sent to control political protests. Visiting Santas hand out presents taken from shop shelves without the approval of the shopping centre management. These are examples of humorous political stunts - public actions, hoaxes and happenings that confront systems of power. This book contains many amusing stories of such stunts, showing the boldness and creativity of the activists. Interviews and documents are used to show how humour can facilitate outreach, mobilisation and a culture of resistance. Humorous Political Stunts combines insights from the fields of nonviolence and humour studies and makes theoretical contributions to each area.
Performing Consumers
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Author : Maurya Wickstrom
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-08-21
Performing Consumers written by Maurya Wickstrom and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-21 with Art categories.
An adventurous study of theatrical indeterminacy and material culture, Performing Consumers brilliantly explores the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of their consumers, using case studies from Ralph Lauren to Niketown.