Performing Homescapes

Sally Mackey, Adelina Ong

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9783031776564
• eBook ISBN: 9783031776571
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Ecology

Part of the Performing Landscapes series, Performing Homescapes is an edited collection comprising a contemporary exploration of performing many iterations of landscapes of homes. Authors were invited to respond to a detailed brief with home to be deliberately reconsidered as homescape, represented by landscapes, sites and practices often outside, and occasionally including a conventional home-as-house and intimate dwelling. We wanted a diverse range of geographical sites to be represented and a global offer, encompassing a pluriverse of homescapes. Voices, practices, and epistemologies from the Global South and global majority were important to us, including Indigenous ways of knowing and practicing. This curated collection offers an expanded understanding of the performance of home/scapes as a new intervention into the fields of performance and home scholarship.

Performing Homescapes moves beyond spatial meditations within rooms of a house to offer an original critical engagement with the social, political, ecological and cultural landscapes that shape and sustain affects related to the notion of home, unhomeliness and, even, solastalgia. While the impact of the social, political and cultural landscapes on relationships with - and within - the house are implied in most academic literature on forms of performing home, it is foregrounded in the chapters of this edited collection. In addition, certain chapters attend to the more-than-human, human relationships with the Earth as homescape and the co-creation of homescapes within and beyond dwellings. 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction: Performing, Homescapes
• 2. Interrogating Performance in UK Home Places: Revisiting Anatopic Practices
• 3. Listen to Oblivion at Home: Experimental Documentaries and a City-State’s Continued Developmentalism
• 4. Precarious Landscapes: Theatre and Belonging With a Group of Sex Workers in Cape Town
• 5. Embodying Home-Places: Biocostume as a Mode of More-Than-Human Encounter With Place
• 6. Casitas de Emociones: Performing an Affective Inhabiting of Home
• 7. Not Just a Storm in a Tea Cup: Reframing ‘Home’ Through Socially Engaged Circus Work With Survivors of Domestic Violence
• 8. Home as/is the Performance of Transnational Culture and the Imagined ‘Homeland’
• 9. Staging Homescapes: Migrancy, Home-making and Theatre
• 10. Settler Aesthetics: Scenographies of Construction Capitalism and Indigenous Erasure in Motel Makeover
• 11. Walking into Mo(u)rning: Walking as Recovery, Research, Revolt
• 12. Confiding in Trees: From Garden City Eco-arrogance to Cohabiting with Wildness
• Correction to: Performing Homescapes
• Back Matter