Performative Strategies in the Extractive Periphery: Resisting Colonial-Capitalist Logics of Dissolution in the Anthropocene

• Main Author: Frappier, Valérie
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: extractivism; land-based performance; performance strategies; Indigenous knowledges; colonial-capitalist critique; Levin; Tahltan; anishina*
• Online Access: http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3050/; http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3050/1/Frappier_Vale%CC%81rie_2020_MFA_CCP_thesis.pdf

Situated at the intersections of performance, decolonial and ecological theory, this thesis posits embodied performance strategies as a catalyst for subverting the colonial-capitalist logics of extractivism. Through close readings of the work of contemporary artists Tsēmā Igharas (Tahltan), Otobong...