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Ghostly sisters: feminist collaborative performance in Australia
This article examines how feminist performance has been, and continues to be, a key vehicle for the collaborative exploration of sexual difference and female subjectivity in Australia. It focuses specifically on the Lean Sisters and Generic Ghosts, whose collaborative performances occurred during the seventies and eighties, and their impact on subsequent feminist collaborative performance groups. As the article demonstrates, this counter-cultural tradition of performance typically deploys tactics of intertextuality, cross-media experimentation, humour, and détournement to critique gender oppression and its recurrence, while staging new possibilities of an embodied feminist politics.
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Axon: creative explorationsIssue
10Pagination
1 - 1Publisher
University of CanberraLocation
Canberra, A.C.T.eISSN
1838-8973Language
engNotes
Special issue: 'The Poetics of Collaboration'Publication classification
X Not reportable; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2016, The AuthorUsage metrics
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