Like much feminist performance art since the 1960s, Casey Jenkins’s latest performance piece, titled IMMACULATE, centres on a female body – Jenkins’s own. IMMACULATE is a performance that documents the legal and commonly practised process of self-insemination in the home.
After initially awarding funding to the work, the Australia Council has rescinded the grant, stating: ‘We cannot be pa ... (read more)
Lara Stevens
Lara Stevens teaches theatre, performance, and gender studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Anti-War Theatre After Brecht (2016), editor and translator of Politics, Ethics and Performance: Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil (2016) and co-editor of Feminist Ecologies (2018).