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Please see the just-released special issue of Liminalities dedicated to Performance Praxis in Carceral Spaces. Edited by Kamran Afary, Greg Langner, and Allen Burnett, the issue centers performance as survival, disruption, and collective imagining across carceral contexts.
Founded in 2005, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies is an open-access, peer-reviewed multimedia publication that addresses three needs in performance studies scholarship and practice: 1) expanding opportunities to share peer-reviewed work, 2) creating a space for the publication of multimedia texts and projects that are difficult or impossible to publish in traditional print venues, and 3) international accessibility and participation.
Liminalities publishes scholarship, aesthetic texts, and media projects that explore, advance, challenge, and celebrate the study of performance as a social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic practice; as a methodology; and as a mode of critique. We welcome the submission of projects addressing performance, the performative, and performativity; performance scripts and aesthetic texts for performance; reviews and criticism of performance work; works about pedagogy and performance; several recurring thematic series; and book reviews. We will consider any form of performance work, and encourage both traditional work and that which challenges the boundaries of performance. We welcome a wide range of performance perspectives, practices, methodologies, contexts, and sites. In addition to texts and images, we publish audio, video, and other digital projects. As of 2024, our goal is to publish 1-2 general issues and 2 or more special issues per year.
The special issue includes:
- Lynn Baker-Nauman, “Who is Godot?” Considering abolitionist theatre & drama therapy.
- Stephen Hartnett, Meghan Cosgrove, and a team of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated scholars including Jacob Carlock, Manuel Sisneros, Sean Mueller, John Burrell, Keean Davis, Kenji Jones, and Taveuan Williams, writing about "Celebrating the Arts and Education in Prison."
- Jadan Janak, “Performing Abolition in the Hold,” an autoethnography of gendered/racialized carceral spaces.
“Troublemaker,” a Cal State Los Angeles multimedia project made by formerly incarcerated grads and faculty. - Claudia Yaghoobi, “Pedagogical Explorations,” on Iranian prison literature & engaged pedagogy.
