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This book explores what happens to socially committed performance
when state systems of social security are dismantled. Since 2010, a
punishing programme of economic austerity and a seismic overhaul of
the Welfare State in the United Kingdom has been accompanied by an
ideological assault on dependency; a pervasive scapegoating of the
poor, young, and disabled; and an intensification of the discursive
relationship between morality and work. This book considers the
artistic, material, and ideological consequences of such shifts for
applied and socially engaged performance. Performing Welfare
reveals how such arts practices might reconstitute notions of work
and labour in socially constructive ways. It focuses on the
political potential of participation during a period in which
classifications of labour and productivity are intensely contested.
It examines the migration of discourses from state policy to the
cultural sector; narratives of community and aesthetics of
dependency; the paradoxes of visibility in creative projects with
stigmatised participants; the implicit relationship of
participatory performance to neoliberal productivity; and, the
parallels between gendered divisions of labour, social
reproduction, and applied performance. It will appeal to students,
scholars, and practitioners interested in applied and socially
engaged performance, participation, community, representation, the
welfare state, social policy, labour, and unemployment.
This book explores what happens to socially committed performance
when state systems of social security are dismantled. Since 2010, a
punishing programme of economic austerity and a seismic overhaul of
the Welfare State in the United Kingdom has been accompanied by an
ideological assault on dependency; a pervasive scapegoating of the
poor, young, and disabled; and an intensification of the discursive
relationship between morality and work. This book considers the
artistic, material, and ideological consequences of such shifts for
applied and socially engaged performance. Performing Welfare
reveals how such arts practices might reconstitute notions of work
and labour in socially constructive ways. It focuses on the
political potential of participation during a period in which
classifications of labour and productivity are intensely contested.
It examines the migration of discourses from state policy to the
cultural sector; narratives of community and aesthetics of
dependency; the paradoxes of visibility in creative projects with
stigmatised participants; the implicit relationship of
participatory performance to neoliberal productivity; and, the
parallels between gendered divisions of labour, social
reproduction, and applied performance. It will appeal to students,
scholars, and practitioners interested in applied and socially
engaged performance, participation, community, representation, the
welfare state, social policy, labour, and unemployment.
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