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Precarity, Performance, and Activism in Recent Works by Ito Tari and Yamashiro Chikako

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Abstract

Rebecca Jennison considers recent works by two contemporary artists, Ito Tari and Yamashiro Chikako, showing how these artists help make visible old and new forms of social precarity in post–3/11 Japan. Jennison analyses how Ito’s live art performance, ‘I guess it’s better that radiation doesn’t have color…’ sigh (2011), uses a range of metaphors, materials, and images to give expression to the anxiety felt in daily life in communities near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant; and how Yamashiro’s three-channel video work Woman of the Butcher Shop (2005) imaginatively explores Okinawans’ ongoing struggle for autonomy. Arguing that these artists create vital spaces for affective encounter, Jennison contrasts the feminist dialogue generated by these works to the neoliberal government’s dangerous acceleration of neonationalist rhetoric.

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    Rebecca Jennison

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    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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Jennison, R. (2017). Precarity, Performance, and Activism in Recent Works by Ito Tari and Yamashiro Chikako. 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_23

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