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• Postmodernism: an intellectual movement challenging the modernist concept of a single reality and binaries
• Moy: the process of exclusion and othering of a group
• Hybridity: The idea that people are a mixture of different cultures and identities.
• Infrapolitics: a discreet form of political activism often made by dominated groups
• Performativity: the idea that identities are performative
• Global culture: spread of common reference through media and circulation of people
• Living theater: American experimental theater company that used theater as a vehicle for social change.
• essentialism: the belief that identities possess fixed and unchanging characteristics.
• Limits of hybridity: Reinforces the idea that identities have fixed traits
• Westernization: The process of Western culture becoming more dominant in other cultures through globalization.
• Inbetweenes: The relationship between art and real-life
• Cultural studies: The study of how culture shapes our behavior and how we think.
• Performative study: A study that explores performance as a lens to study various aspects of the world
• Happenings: Spontaneous performance that involves the public
• master and minor narratives: the narratives that are told about the same event, but from the perspectives of the marginalized or powerful
• Post-modern identities: Identity is constructed through the interaction of the individual with the social and cultural environment.
• Black Mountain College: private liberal arts college focused on experimental art with a community way of operating