Performing Citizenship: Artists Take to the Streets

Authors

  • Diana Taylor Universidade de Nova Iorque

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2013.82463

Keywords:

Performatives, Animatives, Make believe, Make belief.

Abstract

Three competing utterances, displays, and ceremonial acts in Mexico’s contested election of 2006, illustrate the degree to which performance and/as politics comprise multiple, overlapping, and often contested cultural repertoires and legitimating practices. I will look at a few performance elements of these events—the staging, the power of political performatives and what I will call animatives, and the role of spectatorship—that characterized the scenario of democratic participation that has yet to come into being. How does make believe actually make belief and shape political realities?

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Published

2013-12-12

Issue

Vol. 56 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Special Number: Anthropology and Performance

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How to Cite

Taylor, D. (2013). Performing Citizenship: Artists Take to the Streets. Revista De Antropologia, 56(2), 137-151. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2013.82463