ABSTRACT
Performance autoethnography addresses the structures and beliefs of neoliberalism as a public pedagogy, understanding that the cultural is always political. Spectacle Pedagogy: The staging of media events using the visual codes of corporate, global capitalism. Critical Spectacle Pedagogy: A pedagogical practice that reflexively critiques the apparatuses of global capital. The “new materialisms” promise to go beyond the old antagonisms of nature and culture, science and the social, discourse and matter. Community-based performance is opposed to hierarchy, it implements community-building, reciprocity, dialogue and mutual exchange between the community and the performers. These performances are defined by a hyphen that fosters a shared culture, and connects the person to the community, to the performance, to the theatre and its goals, the performance event. A performance-centered ethnographic approach is participatory, intimate, precarious, embodied, grounded in circumstance, situational identities and historical process.
