Lucy Weir: Bodies in Crisis? Rethinking gender and self-injury in performance

Endurance, suffering, and self-injury are recurring characteristics in the global history of performance art. While critical responses to this work range from dismissiveness to veneration, there is a curiously gendered component to analysis of self-injury on stage that, to date, has not been thoroughly interrogated.

"I resist the narrative of ‘masculinity in crisis,’ instead seeking to formulate a new analytical approach for understanding the aestheticisation of violence and self-injury in contemporary performance practice."

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