Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain

Meghan Moe Beitiks' multidisciplinary work explores how performance can serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain in humans and ecologies. Through the first-person process of making the work and embodied encounters with trauma theory,intersectional feminist philosophy,ecology,disability studies,new materialism,object-oriented ontology,gender studies,artistic research,psychology,performance studies,social justice,performance philosophy,performance art,and first-person interviews,Beitiks seeks to develop resilience and cultivate communities by looking for commonalities across species and disciplines.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

While reflecting on her multidisciplinary work Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience, artist Meghan Moe Beitiks considers bodies of knowledge in Trauma Theory, Intersectional Feminist Philosophy, Ecology, Disability Studies, New Materialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, Gender Studies, Artistic Research, Psychology, Performance Studies, Social Justice, Performance Philosophy, Performance Art, and a series of first-person interviews in an attempt to answer that question. Beitiks brings us through the first-person process of making the work and the real-life, embodied encounters with the theories explored within it as an expansion of the work itself. Facing down difficult issues like trauma, discrimination, and the vulnerability of the body, Beitiks looks to commonalities across species and disciplines as means of developing resilience and cultivating communities. Rather than paint a picture of glorious potential utopias, Beitiks takes a hard look at herself as an embodiment of the values explored in the work, and stays with the difficult, sucky, troubling, work to be done.

Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain is a vulnerable book about the quiet presence and hard looking needed to shift systems away from their oppressive, destructive realities.

Weight: 330g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032172279