WORKSHOP – Una Bauer: Dictionary of Anger and Frustration

 

WORKSHOP – Una Bauer (Croatia): Dictionary of Anger and Frustration

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic made more visible what people in the disability community already knew: 1. that the lives of those with disability are considered expendable in relation to the able-bodied majority 2. that accessibility issues can be addressed overnight when the abled-bodied majority needs them to be addressed. I do not have a lived experience of disability, but it seems to me that the requirement to educate, inform, contextualize should not be placed solely on the shoulders of the disability community or other marginalized communities. In the context of curatiorial practice and curatiorial studies, I think it is crucial to address those issues and to see how different marginalized experiences intersect, and what happens when they co-exist and inform each other (disability, queer, race, gender, sexuality). In this workshop, I would like to look into the language used to describe negative social experiences and the tension within marginalized communities in relation to questions of representation and practices: patterned invalidation of lived experience, comparative suffering, transphobic rhetoric, weaponized identity politics, racial gaslighting, interpersonal anti-blackness, power hoarding, white-centering, examining the privilege, able passing privilege, monopoly on victimhood and suffering. How to curate marginal cultural and art practices with regards to complex situation of often frustrating intensities of misunderstandings and “good intentions”?

Reading documents:

CICsummerSchoolDictionaryAngerFrustrationReadingList.docx

Let's Talk About Disability.pdf

Una Bauer is a theatre scholar and writer based in Croatia. She is Associate Professor at the Dramaturgy Department,  Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. She holds a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London. Her research interests include dance, physical theatre and experimental performative practices, history of ideas, theories of affect, networked publics, public sphere, travel writing, community, death studies and crime fiction. She writes theatre and dance reviews, analysis, travelogues and essays, which have been published and radio broadcasted in Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Italy, Canada and UK. Her first book on theatre and everything else, including tea cosies and bicycles, Priđite bliže: o kazalištu i drugim radostima (Come Closer: on Theatre and other Joys) was published in 2015.