Affiliation:
1. Ola Johansson is Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance Practice at the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts (ResCen), Middlesex University (UK). He specializes in progressive and applied performance and has published two books: Community Theatre and AIDS (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Performance and Philosophy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Performing Arts (VDM Verlag, 2008). He wrote the text for the production Politico (2014), was the artistic director for Beyond...
Abstract
Prefigurative interventions and occupations comprise a form of activism comparable to theatrical performance—embodying, situating, and performing hypothetical scenarios. These open-ended, horizontal performance practices employ site-sensitive interventions, tactical media, applied theatre, and cognate modes of interactivity.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts