GENERAL EDITOR
Richard Gough is a co-founder and the General Editor of Performance Research, Professor of Music and Performance at University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK, and Artistic Director of the Centre for Performance Research (CPR). He has produced and organized numerous conferences, workshops, festivals and tours of theatre and dance companies across the past forty-five years, and he has directed theatre productions, curated events and lectured in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australasia and throughout Europe. His own artistic-led research explores the interface between food, cookery and performance.
DEPUTY EDITOR
Helena Grehan is Professor of Creative Arts at Murdoch University in Australia. She writes on performance and ethics, art and politics and questions of spectatorship and responsibility. She has published four books, and two co-edited books, the most recent of which is The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics (with Peter Eckersall). She is currently leading a major Australian Research Council-funded project to digitize, to archival standard, vulnerable cultural collections from Western Australia.
ISSUE EDITORS
Sarah Crews (University of South Wales) is a performance and media studies scholar whose research centres on intersections of bodies, power, narrative and physical culture. Sarah explores how female boxers are represented in popular media and how their work challenges stereotypes of female bodies. Sarah is also leading an archival project on female contributions to Welsh boxing.
P. Solomon Lennox is Head of Department of Arts at Northumbria University. His research explores the relationships between physical performance practices, theories of performance space and narrative identity. Solomon has published work on boxing and on social protest. His current work focuses on the historical legacies of boxing and colonialism.
CONTRIBUTORS
Isabel Burr Raty (BE/CL) is a hybrid artist and researcher, teacher, sporadic curator and sexual Kung Fu coach. Her work is based in ecological, post-human and de-colonial perspectives and offers the conditions for embodied sci-fi, where the role of the human is queered in commodification processes.
Broderick D. V. Chow is Reader and Director of Learning, Teaching and Inclusion at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. His research investigates sport, fitness, physical culture in relation to masculinities. He is the author of the forthcoming book Muscle Works (Northwestern University Press).
Arianna Gass (they/them) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Film, Media, and Theater at Georgia State University. They received their PhD in English and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. They are also a founding worker-owner of Philadelphia-based live interactive performance cooperative Obvious Agency.
Diana Georgiou is a writer, curator and associate lecturer in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Attentive to the sonic resonances of language, her textual work also takes the form of recorded sound poetry and performative live readings. Her debut novel Other Reflexes is now out with Book Works.
Laura Hartnell is an independent scholar who currently teaches performance studies at Monash University. Her research focuses broadly on writing and performance as resistive and transformative tools for social justice, personal development and community building, with a particular emphasis on feminist and queer creative practice.
Alexis Bard Johnson is the Curator at the ONE Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries. Johnson earned her PhD in Art History with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Stanford University. Originally from Chicago, she now lives in Los Angeles with her wife, son and two tuxedo cats.
Tobias Klein is an architect who creates art, installations and sculptures exploring notions of digital craft, re-positioning embodiment, perception and projection. His works evolve between static and dynamic models, exploring new visual territories in embodied space. He is an associate professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
Carali McCall (b.1981, Ontario, Canada) studied Art and Art History at the University of Toronto (2000–04). She has an MFA from the Slade School of Art (2004–06) and a PhD from Central Saint Martin’s (2007–14). Her exhibitions include: Again, and Again and Again, Vancouver Art Gallery (2012); Jerwood Drawing Prize (2017); An Arm’s Reach, Gryder Gallery (2019); Mañana Incierto, Bilbao Guggenheim Museum (2022).
Jessica Nakamura is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research project explores representations of the domestic in twentieth-century Japanese theatre, from the introduction of Western realism until the present.
Andrea Pagnes and Verena Stenke work together as VestAndPage. They explore performance art and performance-based filmmaking as phenomena of ‘thin places’ through their collaborative practice, artistic research and curatorial projects. Their psycho-geographical works move between the unseen and unforeseen, the oppressed and unspoken, the forgotten and the repressed.
Cormac Power is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His previous publications include Presence in Play: A critique of theories of presence in the theatre (Rodopi 2008); and Stoicism and Performance: A joyful materialism (Brill 2019).
Jane Prophet is an interdisciplinary artist and critical theorist who collaborates with scientists to create installations and objects. She is the co-editor of Plants by Numbers, a 2023 Bloomsbury Academic anthology exploring plant ecologies, art, design and computation. She is a professor at Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan.
Katleho Matsatsi Gabriella Ramafalo is a Programme Officer at the Social Change Assistance Trust supporting Community Based Organisations (CBOs) or grassroots initiatives to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, working with communities in the Eastern Cape and Free State. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Cape Town (UCT) that is centred around theories of justice and inequality. With a background in theatre and performance, media studies and sociology, she brings a multi-disciplinary approach to her practice.
Zeynep Sarıkartal (born 1985, Ankara) is a sound artist, improviser, musicologist and cultural/critical anthropologist. She studied classical piano in Ankara and has a BA in musicology from Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, and an MA in ethnomusicology from the University of Vienna. Since 2010 she has been based in Vienna as a composer/improviser/sound artist in theatre, film and multimedia projects. She performs around Europe under the moniker ZS ZS and curates musical events. She was a research assistant on the project ‘The Syrian Exodus in the Theatre of the real: Towards a form of social rituality’ supervised by Liviu Dospinescu at the University of Laval, and is currently working on the artistic transmission of political and social death in the form of research-creation
Sylvia Solakidi is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Performance Philosophy, University of Surrey. She has published essays in peer reviewed academic journals about experiences of time that discuss theatre and music performances, visual arts and literature, alongside the writings of phenomenologists, anthropologists and performance scholars.
Agnieszka Sosnowska is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Art at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw and a curator at Muzeum Susch (Switzerland). She is interested in art practices at the intersection of disciplines, as well as the exhaustion of the modernist paradigm in the art of the 1960s and 1970s.
Raegan Truax is a performance artist and scholar working broadly across the disciplines of performance studies, gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, dance, and visual culture. Truax earned her PhD in Performance Studies from Stanford University and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College. She is currently an artist research fellow with AADK Spain finishing her manuscript Durational Performance: The untimely body in performance art since 1960.
Akhila Vimal C. is a performance theorist whose research explores the intersection of performance studies, ritual studies, ethnochoreology, dance pedagogy, and disability aesthetics. Her work focuses on intercultural performance traditions from India, including history, training, principles, contemporary practices, and textual narratives. Her scholarly work has been featured in various academic journals and anthologies. Currently, she is a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA.
Claire Warden is Professor of Performance and Physical Culture at Loughborough University. The author of three monographs, she is also co-editor of Performance and Professional Wrestling (Routledge 2016), co-founder of the Arts Council-funded Wrestling Resurgence project, and primary investigator for the British Academy-funded Health and Wellbeing in Professional Wrestling.
Bryony White is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, where she specialises in gender and sexuality in contemporary performance and visual art.
Jennifer Dawn Whitney is a lecturer in Fashion Promotion at the University of South Wales. Her research and teaching in Critical Fashion and Beauty Studies engage with the cultural histories of gender and embodiment. She is particularly interested in performances, (de)constructions, and mediations of femininity in popular culture.