Alyson Campbell: Doing Theatre in a Queer Way:
The Queering Potential of Affect in Contemporary Performance
Reminder – Gastvortrag
20. Oktober 2026
18:00
mdw-Campus
Großer Seminarraum (E0101)
In this paper I am arguing for a practitioner approach to considerations of shaping affect in performance-making to queer (political) ends. In my earliest work on affect and performance, as a practitioner, I turned to cultural theorist Jeremy Gilbert’s proposal of an ‘affective analysis’, that argued for the importance of considering affect alongside signifying qualities of performance when analysing it. I built on this model to propose an active ‘affective approach’ as a maker, thinking dramaturgically about ways to ‘shape affect’ as well as organise meaning in the making and rehearsal process.
Alyson Campbell is a director and dramaturg whose work spans a broad range of companies and venues in Australia, the UK and the US over the last 30+ years. She is Professor of Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, where her research, artistic practice as a director, teaching and activism converge around gender and sexuality, particularly queer performance and dramaturgies and contemporary representations of HIV and AIDS.
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