Vol. 4, No. 1-2 of Circus & Its Others; Research Work by Circus Writers Published - CircusTalk

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Vol. 4, No. 1-2 of Circus & Its Others; Research Work by Circus Writers Published

Performance Matters, an academic journal about the materiality and consequentiality of performance, has just published Vol. 4, No. 1-2 of Circus & Its Others, edited by Karen Fricker and Hayley Malouin. With a welcome message from Jennifer Miller and an introduction from the editors, the articles are separated in to five major categories of ‘otherness’ in regards to circus, including Gender Differences in Contemporary Circus, Reading Circus Bodies and Signs, Location, Locatedness and Mobility, Is Social Circus the Other Professional Circus?, and not the least, Freak & Queer.
In the 23 articles that are published, there are notable contributions from international academics who are developing their graduate thesis as well as seasoned academics and professional circus artists. There are many fascinating reads to chose from, for example, Affirmative Freakery, Freaky Methodologies: Circus and Its Bodies without Organs in Disability Circus by David Fancy, or Freak and Queer: Towards a Queer Circus, Queer Hatchings, Monsters in the Cabinet, and Queering Circus Sessions by Charles Batson. Several of the research papers are written by previous CircusTalk contributors, such as Welcome to The Cyborg Circus Show: Imagining Disability Futures Beyond Normative Bodies A Manifesto by Shay Ehrlich; A Modern Version of Running Away and Joining the Circus: From Inner City to around the World by Jessica Hentoff; Briefs: Bending Gender in Australian Contemporary Circus by ...
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Kim Campbell

Kim Campbell has written about circus for CircusTalk.News, Spectacle magazine, Circus Now, Circus Promoters and was a resident for Circus Stories, Le Cirque Vu Par with En Piste in 2015 at the Montreal Completement Cirque Festival. They are the former editor of CircusTalk.News, American Circus Educators magazine, as well as a staff writer for the web publication Third Coast Review, where they write about circus, theatre, arts and culture. Kim is a member of the American Theater Critics Association.