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What Are We Waiting For?

Rehearsal as Arousal Politics in oncogrrrls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

Caro Novella
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Abstract

Current debates in the field of socially engaged art dwell on the relational versus antagonist potentiality of performance for social change, while disability scholars and cancer activists call for performance that activates relationalities beyond individual/medical models. oncogrrrls proposes rehearsal as a liquid space for the joint creation of new cancer relations.

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TDR , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 101 - 114
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© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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