Episode 13: Exploring Agonism with Mischief
Antoinette Burchill
Owen Tooth
10.17028/rd.lboro.7133054.v1
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/media/Episode_13_Exploring_Agonism_with_Mischief/7133054
<p>Location:
</p><p>Broadway, London Fields</p>
<p><br></p><p>The aim of this PhD research was to examine what happens
when mischievous street theatre performers are deliberately agonistic in the
public realm in the United Kingdom. The PhD practice-based research is
contextualised by Chantal Mouffe’s political theory of agonism, and the
instances in which she applies agonism to art practice (2001-2013). The
research is led by the question How can mischievous and participatory
performance facilitate politicised dissent? In this research, art practice is a
method of research, and central to the methodology of argumentation using both
theory and practice. <br></p><p><br></p><p>The art practice takes the form of guerrilla street
theatre.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The guerrilla street performances
were planned and developed in Spring-Summer 2015, the performances took place
over one day in Hackney and London Fields, East London in August 2015. The film
clips are titled as Episodes in order to emphasis the iterative nature of the
street performances. Only Episodes with ethical approval from participants are included in the Collection.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><br></p><p>The art practice adapts L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel <i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</i> because of
the opportunities Oz presents to initiate and facilitate public discussions about
power and conflict through the structure of a journey. For more information
about the practice, see the Collection page.</p>
2018-11-16 13:54:03
Mischief
Agonism
Participation
Street Theatre
Participatory art practice
Chantal Mouffe
Mouffe
Politicised Practice
Dissent
Political Dissent
Guerrilla Street Theatre
Art History
Art Theory
Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting)
Performance and Installation Art
Political Theory and Political Philosophy