http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net Fri, 02 Oct 2015 05:40:44 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/wp-content/uploads/webFiles/cropped-PM_ico_02-32x32.jpg http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net 32 32 http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/assembly_symposium/unsteady-belongings-failures-to-mob/ Fri, 02 Oct 2015 05:40:44 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=procession_symposium&p=997 In ‘Unsteady Belongings: Failures to Mob‘, Justine Shih Pearson presents a number of scenes – including from choreographer Jane McKernan’s Opening and Closing Ceremony, and a flash mob that failed to either ‘flash’ or ‘mob’– to think through occasions of cultural belonging that are partial, incomplete or not quite achieved, under a rubric of ‘unsteady’ belonging. Revisiting Benedict Anderson’s (1983) assertion that nation and nationality are the work of an ‘imagined community’, she reflects on what corporeal mobilisations and moves of the imagination these performances offer us, especially in this renewed age of ‘Team Australia’.

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