The social experiment – Pranks, political activism, and performing stigma
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As part of curated panel with Petra Kuppers, Bree Hadley, Patrick Anderson, Kirsty Johnson on "Contemporary Disability Performance: From Theatre to Social Practice" Disabled theatre artists in the Americas and abroad routinely negotiate precarity in and through performance. While panelists do not wish to romanticize the generative potential of precarity, it is important to attend closely to disabled artists’ productive negotiations with it. How, precisely, does performance move to social practice in these instances? Building in part from Shannon Jackson’s identification of the support structures of participatory art, the papers on this panel investigate moments when support structures fail, draw attention to precarity, and are recast through disability performance. Panelist Patrick Anderson will focus on performative navigations of cross-cutting institutions of medicine and “health” in the US context, particularly before and after the Affordable Care Act, and the inter-subjective “socials” that develop within and around them. Bree Hadley will investigate the phenomenon of so-called ‘social experiments,’ where people perform stigmatised identities in public spaces and places as a form of edgework, in which risk is always part of the practice. Kirsty Johnston will consider the recent work of Vancouver’s NeWorld Theatre as part of a broader investigation into the politics, aesthetics and infrastructures behind several targeted initiatives to build more inclusive professional theatre practices. Petra Kuppers will discuss speculative performance experiments, disability performances that engage version of slanted, cripped futurity, with a focus on breath. Drawing upon Afrofuturist guidance, Petra will engage a range of contemporary performance experiments in the suspension of precarity to address how performance methods can engage speculative bodies, encounters, and temporalities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".