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- Title
"Art is Intrinsically Revolutionary:" Post-Revolution Performance Art in Tunisia.
- Authors
Butler, Anne Marie E.
- Abstract
On January 14, 2011, after nearly a month of continuous protest against a repressive government, Tunisians celebrated the abdication of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. This article analyzes three interventionist performance works, Sana Tamzini's Horr 1, Moufida Fedhila's Super-Tunisian, St'art, and Houda Ghorbel and Wadi Mhiri's Sous mon drapeau. Performed between 2011-2012, each work catapults forward the momentum of street protest and revolution, and also requires the participation of spectators or passers-by, inviting the denotation participatory performance. The performances take up specific instances of political fallout from January 2011 and reprise them, illustrating how revolution is a continuous process. As works that do not rely on the context of a festival or any other organized art event, they mark a new era of performance art in Tunisia that coincides with the country's continued struggle towards democracy.
- Subjects
TUNISIA; SANA (Yemen); PERFORMANCE art; PUBLIC demonstrations; JOB performance; CONTINUOUS processing; REVOLUTIONARIES
- Publication
Liminalities, 2020, Vol 16, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1557-2935
- Publication type
Article