[audiobook] Performing Englishness: Identity and politics in a contemporary folk resurgence (New Ethnograpies MUP) by Trish Winter; Simon Keegan-Phipps in Arts-Photography

Description

Discipline and Desire examines how surveillance technologies; when placed within the frames of theater and performance; can be used to critique and reimagine the politics of surveillance in everyday life. The book explores how rapidly proliferating surveillance technologies; including drones; CCTV cameras; GPS tracking systems; medical surveillance equipment; and facial recognition software; can be repurposed through performance to become technologies of ethical witnessing; critique; and action.While the subject of surveillance continues to provoke fascination and debate in mainstream media and academia; opportunities to critically reflect upon and; more importantly; to imagine alternative; creative responses to living in a rapidly expanding surveillance society have been harder to find. Author Elise Morrison argues that such opportunities are being created through the growing genre of ldquo;surveillance art and performance;rdquo; defined as works that centrally employ technologies and techniques of surveillance to create theater; installation; and performance art. Introducing readers to a broad range of surveillance art works; including the work of artists and activists such as Surveillance Camera Players; Jill Magid; Steve Mann; Hasan Elahi; Wafaa Bilal; Blast Theory; Electronic Disturbance Theater; George Brant; Janet Cardiff; Mona Hatoum; and Zach Blas; Discipline and Desire provides a practical and analytical framework that can aid the diverse pursuits of new media-arts practitioners; performance scholars; activists; and hobbyists interested in critical and creative uses of surveillance technologies.