Unshackling the Body, Mind, and Spirit: Reflections on Liberation and Creative Exchange between San Quentin and Auckland Prisons

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dc.citation.issue7
dc.citation.volume11
dc.contributor.authorHazou R
dc.contributor.authorDaniels R
dc.date.available12/01/2022
dc.date.issued2022-01
dc.description.abstractThis article explores a creative project entitled Performing Liberation which sought to empower communities with direct experience of incarceration to create and share creative work as part of transnational dialogue. One of the aims of the project was to facilitate creative dialogue and exchange between two incarcerated communities: prisoners at Auckland Prison and prisoners at San Quentin Prison in San Francisco. Written using autoethnographic methods, this co-authored article explores our recollections of key moments in a creative workshop at Auckland Prison in an attempt to explain its impact on stimulating the creativity of the participants. We begin by describing the context of incarceration in the US and New Zealand and suggest that these seemingly divergent locations are connected by mass incarceration. We also provide an overview of the creative contexts at San Quentin and Auckland Prison on which the Performing Liberation project developed. After describing key moments in the workshop, the article interrogates the creative space that it produced in relation to the notion of liberation, as a useful concept to interrogate various forms of oppression, and as a practice that is concerned with unshackling the body, mind, and spirit.
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dc.format.extent1 - 16 (16)
dc.identifier.citationHumanities, 2022, 11 (7), pp. 1 - 16 (16)
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/h11010007
dc.identifier.elements-id450546
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn2076-0787
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10179/16851
dc.publisherMDPI (Basel, Switzerland)
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dc.subjectPrison Theatre
dc.subjectApplied Theatre
dc.subjectMass Incarceration
dc.subjectCreative Practice
dc.subjectDecolonisation
dc.titleUnshackling the Body, Mind, and Spirit: Reflections on Liberation and Creative Exchange between San Quentin and Auckland Prisons
dc.typeJournal article
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