Performing Arousal: Precarious Bodies and Frames of Representation

Shortlisted for the 2023 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize

This book considers arousal as a mode of theoretical and artistic inquiry to encourage new ways of staging and examining bodies in performance across artistic disciplines, modern history, and cultural contexts. Looking at traditional drama and theatre, but also visual arts, performance activism, and arts-based community engagement, this collection draws on the complicated relationship between arousing images and the frames of their repre...