This paper suggests performance as an ‘emerging space’ in the field of rape prevention. It asks two central questions: Why performance? And what types of performance may be useful? Performance may be uniquely positioned to engender the... more
This paper suggests performance as an ‘emerging space’ in the field of rape prevention. It asks two central questions:
Why performance? And what types of performance may be useful? Performance may be uniquely positioned to engender the transformation of rape culture, with its opportunity for the theoretical to become embodied consciousness, witnessed in a social arena. On the stage, different subjectivities can be located and played with, creating slippages within the script of rape. Performance may not only critically assess social realities, but also invent and embody new ways of being within these.
