Kansas State University

Melissa Poll and Jenn Cole publish special issue of Performance Matters

Submitted by Melissa Poll

Melissa Poll, visiting professor of social transformation and English, and her Algonquin-Anishinaabe collaborator Jenn Cole recently published their second special issue of the journal Performance Matters: "Performing (in) Place: Space, Relation, Action."

This issue focuses on artistic expressions that provide renewed awareness of the networks of relations that create territory in the context of Indigenous sovereignties and decolonization. Authors and artists in the issue offer critical engagement with notions of place making: ways in which our creative actions animate shared spaces as well as how place animates us.

In this follow-up to "Performing (in) Place: Moving on/with land," the editors are interested in actions that exist in addition to/beyond spoken acknowledgments of territory and how these actions enable Indigenous people, other than human kin, and Settler collaborators to lift each other up in resurgent and decolonization efforts.