Performance Research. Volume 23, Issue 6: On Generosity

On Generosity offers critical examinations of the ethics and practices of generosity, as well as generosity’s inherent performativity. Without recourse to a naive faith in its potential, but also without devolving into cynicism about its limits, this volume takes a fresh look at how generosity appears in performance and how generosity is performed. Contributors analyse practices and discourses of generosity in political and economic interventions, in everyday life, in social practice art and as represented in theatrical performances. Generosity is considered as a performative relation, and the volume includes enquiries into the generosity and generativity that may lie at the heart of performance itself. This is amplified in a special showcase section, ‘Cabinet of Generosities’, which proliferates examples of performance works that engage generosity as practice and as theme.EditorialLaurie Beth Clark, Michael PetersonA Rhapsody For YouHelen ParisTo Offer/To Exchange : A conversationLauren van Haaften-Schick, Charles SimondsToxic Colonialism and the Gesture of GenerosityJisha MenonTo Be UndonePatrick AndersonWhole Parts : On rupture and the other side of generosity [artists' pages]Jeannine ShinodaHave I Done Enough? : Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton’s culture of generosityLaura MacDonaldPerforming Philanthropy from Andrew Carnegie to Bill GatesAlisa ZhulinaRadical Care : Performative generosity and generativity in Third TheatreJane Turner, Patrick CampbellAssister au Spectacle [artists' pages]Julia-Kristina Bauer, Carl LaveryThe Gift of Cake : Baking together in performanceJenny LawsonEven Better than the Real Thing : Economies of ontological authenticity in socially engaged art practiceCiaran SmythPerforming Labour’s (Non)Futures : Universal basic income and the monetary imaginationChristian Riley NaglerContagion as Method : Generating stages of enunciationAnyely Marin Cisneros, Rebecca CloseCabinet of GenerositiesClara Rocha, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Nick Kline, Tomaz Krpic, Kirsty Mate, Kirsty Mate, Walmeri Ribeiro, Arianna Richardson, Cristiane Bouger, Joseph Connelly, Carolyn Defrin, Mark Flisher, Mark Flisher, Richard Gough, Mark HarveyLetter to the Editors [artists’ pages]Mick Douglas, Amaara RaheemNotes on Contributors