Performing the Hyphen

Authors

  • Miki Seifert (With Lime – Wellington, New Zealand) With Lime – Wellington, New Zealand

Keywords:

Decolonisation. Butoh. Epistemological Pluralism. Colonisation. Māori.

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to present a decolonising research methodology. The first section of this paper problematises western knowledge production, using Aníbal Quijano’s colonial matrix of power. The second section theorises how an epistemological pluralism that is critical, decolonising and performative could address western knowledge production and the colonial matrix of power. The third section discusses how this methodology has been applied to Butoh to develop Critical Butoh. The final section presents He rawe tona kakahu/ She wore a becoming dress, a Butoh performance exploring the intersection of gender and colonisation, as a practical application of this methodology. 

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Author Biography

Miki Seifert (With Lime – Wellington, New Zealand), With Lime – Wellington, New Zealand


Dr Miki Seifert is an artistic director of With Lime. Recipient of the New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarship and Victoria Postgraduate Research Excellence Award, she completed her PhD at Te Kawa a Māui/School of Māori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in 2011. Growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, she was a competitive gymnast and a circus aerialist.

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Published

2022-10-02

How to Cite

Seifert (With Lime – Wellington, New Zealand), M. (2022). Performing the Hyphen. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 8(4), 691–718. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/78758

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 4 (2018): Oct./Dec.2018

Section

Decolonial Poetics and Pedagogies

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