Resources

Amirault, Holding Things Together, soil from Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, hands. 2015

These are the resources that are giving flesh to the bones. The lists will be added to continually, while some of them will be individually reflected upon in other blog entries under their appropriate category.

Understanding the body in performance

Keywords: Embodiment, movement, experimentation, gesture, expression

Books:

- Exploring Body-Mind Centering edited by Gill Wright Miller et al.

- Body-Mind Psychotherapy by Susan Aposhyan

- Natural Intelligence by Susan Aposhyan

Decolonial Love

Keywords: rage

Books:

- Lighting the Eighth Fire edited by Leanne Simpson

- Dancing on our Turtles Back by Leanne Simpson

- Unsettling Canada by Arthur Manuel

- Memory Serves by Lee Maracle

- Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanna Simpson

Articles:

Artists:

Valeen Jules

Kent Monkman

Jessica Larabee from She Keeps Bees

Performance in politics and publics and social poetics

Keywords: socially engaged art, public sphere, capital, intra-interactivism, power, privilege, social infrastructure, generosity, ethics, politics, morals, occupy, space, class, race, gender, (this would be an awful long list poem...)

Books:

Seeing Power: art and activism in the 21st Century by Nato Thompson

Social Works: performing art, supporting publics by Shannon Jackson

Artists: