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Affecting the Apparatus: Queer Feminist Re/Decodings in the Digital Dramaturgy Lab, Toronto

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In this chapter, Antje Budde describes the principles of process-based, collaborative, and politically provocative works/actions of the nomadic networking platform Digital Dramaturgy Lab (DDL). An open-source apparatus/network that brings together a diverse group of interdisciplinary and politically minded artists, scholars, and activists across ages, ethnicities, abilities, cultures, and sexualities, the DDL, Toronto is a laboratory of the social imagination, building environments that challenge the neoliberal university and municipal arts bureaucracies while imagining—in the doing—a refunctioned apparatus/network that allows for respect, togetherness, solidarity, pleasure, and open-ended processes of learning and sharing not generated for profit or individualist gain. Budde discusses Brechtian, Dadaist, feminist, queer, and anti-colonial strategies of resistance in DDL’s projects Artaud’s Cage and Jing@Ju Karaoke—Interactive Queering of Beijing Opera.

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    Antje Budde

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  1. Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Elin Diamond

  2. School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Denise Varney

  3. Department of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Candice Amich

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Budde, A. (2017). Affecting the Apparatus: Queer Feminist Re/Decodings in the Digital Dramaturgy Lab, Toronto. In: Diamond, E., Varney, D., Amich, C. (eds) Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times. Contemporary Performance InterActions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59810-3_15

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