ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the different approaches that are commonly used to cast contributors, demonstrating that they are largely based on the relative availability of potential participants and that the method itself plays an important role in establishing the dynamics of the relationship between the contributors and the production. Producers set out to find people who conform to their own preconceived notions of identities, and their techniques involve a recycling of material that is already in the public domain. The casting process is therefore liable to confirm existing biases, and amplify existing patterns of visibility and marginalisation in wider society.
