Being Exhausted, Acting Happy: Dragana Bulut’s Happyology — Tears of Joy

Schmidt, Cecilie Ullerup

doi:10.1162/dram_a_00950

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September 01 2020

Being Exhausted, Acting Happy: Dragana Bulut’s Happyology — Tears of Joy

Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt

Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt is a performance artist and curator; Assistant Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen; and Deputy Director at the New Carlsberg Foundation Research Centre “Art as Forum.” She studied Comparative Literature and Modern Cultural Studies in Copenhagen, Theatre Science at Freie Universität Berlin, and Applied Theatre Science in Giessen. She taught performance theory in the BA Dance, Context, Choreography program at Inter-University Centre for Dance, University of the Arts in Berlin from 2011–2016. c.u.schmidt@hum.ku.dk

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Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt

Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt is a performance artist and curator; Assistant Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen; and Deputy Director at the New Carlsberg Foundation Research Centre “Art as Forum.” She studied Comparative Literature and Modern Cultural Studies in Copenhagen, Theatre Science at Freie Universität Berlin, and Applied Theatre Science in Giessen. She taught performance theory in the BA Dance, Context, Choreography program at Inter-University Centre for Dance, University of the Arts in Berlin from 2011–2016. c.u.schmidt@hum.ku.dk

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2020

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TDR/The Drama Review (2020) 64 (3 (247)): 162–167.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00950

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Happyology — Tears of Joy exercises and exposes a current imperative of happiness in times of structural precarity and exhaustion as it raises questions on the efficacy of acting one’s autobiography under these conditions. The performance asks us to speculate on who can be an agent of change within the political economy of independent theatre and its labor practices.

2020

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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