GL RY: A (W)hole lot of woman trouble. HIV dramaturgies and feral pedagogies

Abstract

This essay stems from a Practice as Research performance installation, GL RY, led by the author in a public square throughout the 2014 International AIDS Conference in Melbourne. The essay argues that there is a gaping hole in representation of women living with HIV in contemporary performance in countries like Australia. The essay proposes two main concepts: conversation'in form as well as process'is a key part of a contemporary dramaturgy of HIV; and, building on that, this dramaturgy of conversation might be productively merged with queer ideas of kinship and family to form what I am calling ‘feral pedagogies': a queerly de-domesticated idea of how we teach and learn, in this case about H..