Reframing ‘Home’ through Socially-engaged Circus Work with Survivors of Domestic Violence скачать в хорошем качестве

Reframing ‘Home’ through Socially-engaged Circus Work with Survivors of Domestic Violence

Dr Natalie Lazaroo reflected on feminist organisation Vulcana Circus, specifically, Circus in a Tea Cup project (2021), which brought together women from the Vulcana community and survivors of gender-based and domestic violence to create stories of survival through circus and physical storytelling. In doing so, she engaged with the concept of ‘home’ as a contested category in the context of domestic violence, especially within the field of feminist geographies. For instance, home is seen as a site of dominance and resistance, where hegemonic ideologies of home need to be challenged through alternative interpretations. She thus considered how the circus work reframed the images of home by creating an undomesticated ground upon which the female body could resist and trouble the notion of the docile body produced through domestic violence. By focusing on the experiences of the women involved, she also proposed how home can be re-imagined through the landscapes of relationality that are developed as part of creating performance work together.