Visions And Revisions

Visions and Revisions explores the intersection of performance studies and trauma studies, focusing on themes like trauma, testimony, witness, and spectatorship. It challenges traditional approaches by examining popular and media-based performances that deal with trauma through the lens of performance theory.

Bridging performance and trauma studies to rethink how trauma is represented and witnessed.

This collection brings together insights from performance and trauma studies to deepen our understanding of how trauma is portrayed and experienced. While performance studies has begun to engage with trauma, it often centers on elite art forms and political theater. The contributors here address a crucial gap by exploring how popular and mediatized performances that commemorate trauma can also be analyzed through performance theory.

Additionally, the book encourages a shift in focus from purely visual aspects of performance to the sensorial and material dimensions. This approach offers a new way to reconsider the role of the witness and provides fresh perspectives on both performance and trauma studies.

Bryoni Trezise is a lecturer in theatre and performance studies at the University of New South Wales, and Caroline Wake holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia.