Main description:

Innovative fusion of schools of thought in performance: Performance Studies, Theatre Studies, Performance Art, Performance Philosophy.

Striking first-person narrative of the creative process

Important cross-disciplinary research addressing critical current issues in ecology and human relationships.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: The Necessity and Danger of Empathy (Moment 1), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy

Chapter 2: Trauma & Theory: (Nebraska), with Audio Description by Emily Smith Beitiks

Chapter 3: Human/Non-human/More-than-human Relationships (New York), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy

Chapter 4: Categories, Stigma and Listening (Installation One), with Audio Description by Emily Smith Beitiks

Chapter 5: Failure that Lives in the Body (Portrait) (aka: "Androgynous [Gender] Queer White Wom@x#y!n Looks at Her Actions, Things, Feelings." This chapter is intended for privileged identities.)

Chapter 6: What I Can't See (New York 2), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy

Chapter 7: Surrender (Moment 2), created with Katie Murphy

Chapter 8: Water and Other Obvious Connective Forces (Santa Fe), with Audio Description by Adam Harvey and photos by Jane Phillips

Chapter 9: Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Exhibition)

List of contributors

Index