Performing Citizenship: Bodies, Agencies, Limitations

316 Pages·2019·4.93 MB·English

by  Paula Hildebrandt et al (eds.)

PERFORMING
CITIZENSHIP
BODIES, AGENCIES,
LIMITATIONS
EDITED BY
Paula Hildebrandt, Kerstin Evert,
Sibylle Peters, Mirjam Schaub,
Kathrin Wildner AND Gesa Ziemer
Performance Philosophy
Series Editors
Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
University of Surrey
Guildford, UK
Alice Lagaay
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Hamburg, Germany
Will Daddario
Independent Scholar
Asheville, NC, USA
Performance Philosophy is an interdisciplinary and international field of
thought, creative practice and scholarship. The Performance Philosophy
book series comprises monographs and essay collections addressing the
relationship between performance and philosophy within a broad range of
philosophical traditions and performance practices, including drama, the-
atre, performance arts, dance, art and music. It also includes studies of the
performative aspects of life and, indeed, philosophy itself. As such, the
series addresses the philosophy of performance as well as performance-as-
philosophy and philosophy-as-performance.
Series Advisory Board:
Emmanuel Alloa, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of St.
Gallen, Switzerland
Lydia Goehr, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA
James R. Hamilton, Professor of Philosophy, Kansas State University, USA
Bojana Kunst, Professor of Choreography and Performance, Institute for
Applied Theatre Studies, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Professor of Theatre Studies, Goethe University,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Martin Puchner, Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative
Literature, Harvard University, USA
Alan Read, Professor of Theatre, King’s College London, UK
Freddie Rokem, Professor (Emeritus) of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University,
Israel
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Paula Hildebrandt • Kerstin Evert
Sibylle Peters • Mirjam Schaub
Kathrin Wildner • Gesa Ziemer
Editors
Performing
Citizenship
Bodies, Agencies, Limitations
Editors
Paula Hildebrandt Kerstin Evert
Berlin, Germany Tanzplan Hamburg
K3 - Zentrum für Choreographie
Sibylle Peters Hamburg, Germany
FUNDUS Theater
Hamburg, Germany Mirjam Schaub
University of Art and Design
Kathrin Wildner Burg Giebichenstein
HafenCity University Hamburg Halle a.d. Saale, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Gesa Ziemer
HafenCity University Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Performance Philosophy
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reface
New forms of citizenship are developing in the cities of the twenty-first
century: self-organized and often independent from the state, they
negotiate and shape how we live together.
The graduate programme Performing Citizenship explored new articu-
lations of citizenship, starting from the gap between traditional institu-
tions and a self-confident new citizenry. It combined cultural studies from
various disciplinary backgrounds with art-based methodologies and
hands-on experimentation in public space.
Performing Citizenship—Bodies, Agencies, Limitations provides
insights into our research projects complemented by contributions from
an international conference hosted by (the organizers of the programme
and) editors of this book in November 2016 in Hamburg. The contribut-
ing chapters cover a wide range of academic disciplines, from urban plan-
ning, postcolonial studies, philosophy, cultural anthropology, to pedagogy
and media studies. Based on a conceptual and methodological framework,
they discuss conflicts, tensions and potentialities of doing things with
rights. Addressing all kinds of cultural, social and political phenomena—
body optimization, corruption, gentrification, global logistics, migration
and ‘welcome culture’—we claim that a performative take on citizenship
offers a fresh and productive look at questions of identity and belonging,
rights and responsibilities.
The book as well as the three-year research programme would not
have been possible without the generous funding of the
Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg, the people working behind the
scene, namely the HafenCity University Hamburg, the K3—Centre for
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vi PREFACE
Dance and Choreography, the Hamburg School of Applied Science and
the Fundus Theatre Hamburg. Last but not least, we would like to thank
Alice Lagaay for her enthusiasm in considering this volume for the
Performance Philosophy Series and, most notably, Jules Bradbury for
her careful and diligent editorial work.
Berlin, Germany Paula Hildebrandt
Hamburg, Germany Kerstin Evert
Hamburg, Germany Sibylle Peters
Halle a.d. Saale, Germany Mirjam Schaub
Hamburg, Germany Kathrin Wildner
Hamburg, Germany Gesa Ziemer
14.06.2018
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ontents
Introduction 1
Paula Hildebrandt and Sibylle Peters
Part I Bodies of Citizenship 15
Yet Another Effort, Citizens, If You Want to Learn How to
React! 17
Kai van Eikels
An Elephant in the Room / On the Balcony: Performing the
‘Welcome City’ Hamburg 29
Paula Hildebrandt
Doing Rights with Things: The Art of Becoming Citizens 45
Engin Isin
Performing Citizenship: Gathering (in the) Movement 57
Liz Rech
On Bodies and the Need to Appropriate Them 77
Antje Velsinger
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viii CONTENTS
Part II Citizenship and (Urban) Space 91
Silence, Motifs and Echoes: Acts of Listening in Postcolonial
Hamburg 93
Katharina Kellermann
Claims for the Future: Indigenous Rights, Housing Rights,
Land Rights, Women’s Rights 111
Elke Krasny
Spaces of Citizenship 127
Sergio Tamayo
Urban Citizenship: Spaces for Enacting Rights 147
Kathrin Wildner
A Space of Performing Citizenship: The Gängeviertel in
Hamburg 161
Michael Ziehl
Part III Citizenship and (Non-)Performance: Premises/
Critique/Speculations 175
Performance as Delegation: Citizenship in ‘Lloyd’s
Assemblage’ 177
Moritz Frischkorn
(Re)Labelling: Mimicry, Between Identification and
Subjectivation 191
Thari Jungen
Paralogistics: On People, Things and Oceans 209
geheimagentur and Sibylle Peters
CONTENTS ix
Phyto-Performance and the Lost Gardens of Riga 229
Alan Read
Of Mice and Masks: How Performing Citizenship Worked for
a Thousand Years in the Venetian Republic and Why the Age
of Enlightenment Brought it to an Abrupt End 243
Mirjam Schaub
Part IV Emerging Agencies 261
Perform, Citizen! On the Resource of Visibility in
Performative Practice Between Invitation and Imperative 263
Maike Gunsilius
Practices of Politicizing Listening (to Migration) 279
Nanna Heidenreich
Childish Citizenship 289
Darren O’Donnell
I Do. From Instruction to Agency: Designing of Vocational
Orientation Through Artistic Practice 295
Constanze Schmidt
Index 315