1st Edition
Mess and Contemporary Performance Complexity, Containment, and Collapse
By Harriet Curtis
Copyright 2025
168 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains.
Using a queer feminist and intersectional critical framework, this book analyses how established and emerging artists mess with and mess up capitalist... Read more
1. Introduction: Locating Mess 2. Mess, Materiality, and Labour 3. Holding Space: Mess, Complexity, and Containment 4. Hot Mess: Vulnerability and Exhibitionism in Performance 5. The Uses and Mis‑Uses of Mess 6. Conclusion: Mess, Exhaustion, and Collapse
Biography
Harriet Curtis is Senior Lecturer in Drama at De Montfort University, Leicester.
