ACT UP as a Structure of Feeling

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Anne Bogart, “Foreword,” in Erin Hurley, Theatre & Feeling (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), x. 2. Leonard Cohen, “Ballad of the Absent Mare,” http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonardcohen/balladoftheabsentmare.html. 3. Chief among these non-virtual losses, Darrell Kirk, then partner of my primary performance partner-in-crime, Scott Dillard. See Scott Dillard, “Breathing Darrell: Solo Performance as a Contribution to a Useful Queer Mythology,” Text and Performance Quarterly 20 (2000): 74–83. 4. Philip Kennicott, “‘Fire’ man: Wojnarowicz, censored by Smithsonian, sounded an alarm in dire times,” Washington Post, December 10, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120905895.html. 5. Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), 132. 6. In Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the USA (New York: Crowell, 1976), 292. See also William N. Eskridge Jr., “A History of Same Sex Marriage” (1993), Faculty Scholarship Series, Paper 1504, http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/1504. 7. For Huckabee's current position, see http://www.repealhealthcareact.org; For his perspective on PWAs, for which he has not apologized, see “Huckabee refuses to retract '92 remarks on AIDS patients.” CNN Politics, December 10, 2007, http://articles.cnn.com/2007-12-10/politics/huckabee.aids_1_mike-huckabee-aids-patients-sinful-lifestyle?_s=PM:POLITICS. 8. Jan Zita Grover, “AIDS: Keywords,” October 43 (1987), 23–24. 9. For more about this particular approach, see Ronald J. Pelias and James VanOosting, “A Paradigm for Performance Studies,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 73 (1987): 219–31. 10. ACT UP, “Merchandise,” http://www.actupny.org/merchandise/index.html. 11. ACT UP, “Merchandise.” 12. ACT UP, “Merchandise.” 13. ACT UP, “Merchandise.” 14. Deborah Gould, “On Affect and Protest,” in Political Emotions: New Agendas in Communication, ed. Janet Staiger, Ann Cvetkovich, and Ann Reynolds (New York: Routledge, 2010), 30. 15. Vito Russo, “Why We Fight,” May 9, 1988, http://www.actupny.org/documents/whfight.html 16. José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York: New York University Press, 2009), 28. 17. Tim Miller, 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels, ed. Glen Johnson (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), 120. 18. Tim Miller, Body Blows: Six Performances (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), 146–47. 19. Tim Miller, Shirts & Skin (Los Angeles: Alyson, 1997), 208–09. 20. Miller, Body Blows, 68–69. 21. Kevin Michael DeLuca, Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism (New York: Guilford Press, 1999), 1; Jacki Apple, “Performance Art is Dead: Long Live Performance Art!” High Performance 66 (1994): 54–59. 22. Richard Schechner, Between Theater and Anthropology (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985). 23. Richard A. Cherwitz and James W. Hikins, Communication and Knowledge: An Investigation in Rhetorical Epistemology (Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 1986), 98. 24. Ernest G. Bormann, “Fantasy and Rhetorical Vision: The Rhetorical Criticism of Social Reality,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 58 (1972): 397. 25. ACT UP, “Merchandise”; Russo, “Why We Fight.” 26. David Román, “Performing All Our Lives: AIDS, Performance, Community” in Critical Theory and Performance, ed. Janelle G. Reinelt and Joseph R. Roach (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992), 217. 27. See the script and discussion of this performance, “The First Time,” in Kristin M. Langellier and Eric E. Peterson, Storytelling in Daily Life (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004), 219–42. 28. Bormann, “Fantasy and Rhetorical Vision,” 396. 29. Bormann, “Fantasy and Rhetorical Vision,” 398. 30. Gould, “On Affect and Protest,” 33; Bormann, “Fantasy and Rhetorical Vision,” 396. 31. Erin Hurley, Theatre & Feeling (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 4. 32. John T. Warren and Nicholas A. Zoffel, “Living in the Middle: Performances Bi-Men,” in Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader, ed. Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee Jenkins (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007), 236. 33. David P. Terry, “Deputy Queer: Periperformativity, Politics, Aesthetics, and Ethics,” in Queer Identities/Political Realities, ed. Bruce Drushel and Kathleen German (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2009), 106. Additional informationNotes on contributorsCraig Gingrich-PhilbrookCraig Gingrich-Philbrook is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and William and Galia Minor Professor of Creative Communication in the Department of Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. A recipient of the National Communication Association's Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance, he has performed his queer, solo work around the country