Moving Publics: An In-Transit Conversation

Co-presented by Performance Studies (Canada) and York University at SummerWorks 2019

Monday August 12th, 3:00 – 5:00 pm

The Theatre Centre – Cafe, 1115 Queen Street W, Toronto, Ontario

• Event Description
• Readings

• Come on board our neighborhood bus for curated conversations on the performance and politics of mobility – everything from public transportation to protest in public spaces. Part public dialogue, part collectively created site-specific installation, this project will invite participants to reflect on questions of access, assembly, and public choreography as we travel together along Queen West. Participants are asked to review the articles included here in advance. Special thanks to Canadian Theatre Review for granting access to their articles.

  Bus departs from The Theatre Centre at 3:00 PM.

• Our two hour bus ride will cover two topics, each led by two facilitators. We kindly ask participants to read the ”required readings” below for each topic. If time permits, please also look at the “recommended readings.”

  Special thanks to Canadian Theatre Review for granting access to their articles.

  Topic A: Public Assembly and Choreographies of Protest

  required readings

  Diverlus, Rodney. “Black Lives Matter Toronto: Urgency as Choreographic Necessity.” Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 176, 2018, pp. s62-s68. 

  Nigam, Sunita “Dramas of Homemaking and Hospitality in ATSA’s Cuisine ta ville,” Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 176, 2018, pp. 11-18.

  recommended readings

  Miller, Stefanie Ellen. “Montreal’s Maple Spring: The Afterlives of Movement Histories.” Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 176, 2018, pp s56-s61. 

  Kedhar, Anusha. “ ‘Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!’: Gesture, Choreography, and Protest in Ferguson.” The Feminist Wire, 6 Oct. 2014.

  
  Topic B: Public Transportation and Mobility 

  required readings

  Eales, Lindsay and Peers, Danielle. “Choreographies of Crip and Mad Travel.” Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 176, 2018, pp. s48-s52.

  Ng-Chan, Tai’en.”Performing city transit,” in Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile Communication in Hybrid Spaces. eds. Adriana de Souza e Silva, Mimi Sheller. Routledge, 2014. 117-131. 

  recommended readings

  Certeau, M. de. The Practice of Everyday Life, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.  

  Titchkosky, T. (2011). The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning. “Chapter 4: ‘Where?’ To Pee or Not to Pee?”. (pp. 69-91). Toronto, ON.: University of Toronto Press.

  
  General Background Readings

  Gerecke, Alana and Levin, Laura. “Moving Together in an Era of Assembly.” Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 176, 2018, pp. s5-s10. (Issue Editorial)

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  Chambers, Justine A. and Gerecke, Alana. “Moving Together, 22 Ways.” Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 176, 2018, pp. s37-s40.

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