RT Article
T1 Staging Activism: New York City Performing Artists as Cultural Workers
JF Social justice
VO 34
IS 1
SP 97
OP 116
A1 Goddard, Amy
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157341
AB Part of a special issue on the relationship between art, identity, and social justice. A study was conducted to explore the activism and cultural work of three New York City performing artists. Data were obtained from in-depth interviews with Imani Henry, who identifies as a queer, Caribbean, female-to-male transsexual; Susana Cook, a self-styled butch lesbian from Argentina; and Diyaa MilDred Gerestant, a Haitian-American queer performing artist. Findings revealed that each artist regards creating connections across lines of difference as a critical aim, and their cultural work functions as activism on a number of levels; they make use of participatory processes of audience engagement. Findings also revealed that these artists have exposed their own personal selves through performance in order to communicate their messages: each examines themes of race and ethnicity from their own perspective. Findings are discussed in detail.
K1 Entertainers in literature
K1 Artists
K1 Artists in literature
K1 Artists & community
K1 Social Change
K1 Social movements in art
K1 Entertainers
K1 Art
K1 Performance art
K1 Art & society