Performing Punctuation

Julieanna Preston, Anna Brown (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2026
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-83595-220-7 (ISBN)

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A transdisciplinary collection raising awareness of the limiting effects of the dominance of English language and vociferous use of punctuation. How can English language punctuation discard its domineering and strident overcoat to enable a greater diversity of readers, listeners, performers, writers, and practices? 70 b&w and 61 col. illus.

Performing Punctuation gathers writers/performers to highlight, question and contest colonising facets of English language punctuation, while looking for ways to reveal and rarefy these proprietary rules such that they are responsive, playful, generous, generative, and ultimately more inclusive.

A transdisciplinary collaborative book that brings awareness to the limiting effects of the prevailing dominance of English language and its vociferous use of punctuation. The book's content and design is guided by this question: How can English language punctuation discard its domineering and strident overcoat to enable a greater diversity of readers, listeners, performers, writers, and practices?

Performing Punctuation, bears out digressions, indiscretions, transgressions and fabulations of grammatical marks unfaithful to propriety. It makes public an on-going and refreshed movement to play humorously and tenaciously with those small but powerful writing marks that regulate, discipline and structure textual language and spoken discourse. These marks, symbols and rule-makers are anything but a mere neutral grammatical systems; they are language gremlins and pixies; inflecting and infecting agents with histories, voices and messages of their own accord. These marks are understood as part and parcel to the on-going colonising history of the English language.

The collection brings together of a range of voices – Māori and Pākehā – and the collaborative editorial relationship with contributors allows conversation to develop between the elements of the book.

Julieanna Preston’s transdisciplinary creative practice research is concerned with the agency and ethics of materiality, its relation to place, ecology and ways of being in the world. Her practice engages place-responsive live art performance, vocalisation, and performance writing. She currently teaches and supervises postgraduate students across art, design and architecture in Aotearoa NZ. Anna Brown is New Zealand-based designer, researcher and educator. She is Professor of Design and Public Good at Massey University’s College of Creative Arts. She works with visual artists and curators to investigate through form, materials and typography how the vehicle of the book can amplify the content it contains.

Welcome

chain /

/

/ link /

/

/ throat

To Listen Poetry

Between the Words

Shell on Sure, Graphic Shaming and / as Gender Slamming

Wetness — a sensuous politics of punctuation

A Short Line with a Long Shadow

WE ARE THE VĀ / NOW

Dots on a Page

Yes O Do Please Stop

Encountering One’s Footprints in Snow or: On Paragraphs

Steppes

acut inside the questions

that are due to our souths

attempting

to write outside a limit

Bridging Portmanteau

beginning

........Same as it ever was........

PUNCT-ing

Holding Together Briefly:

I begin with ‘ and end with ?

Interrobanging

Girlspeak

The Meaning of This:

Performing Asemic Writing

23 Deluge

..--- ...-- / -.. . .-.. ..- --. .

Liberated from Language:

Punctuation’s Performativity

in the Absence of Words

A holding practice

semicolon comma shift return

Homogenised, Pasteurised and

Recognisable: Empowering Children

to Decentre the Dominance of

Standard English Spelling,

Punctuation and Grammar

A Meaningful Site: Space (bar)

and Weak Rays

Exploded House (Philomena)

A conversation with Beatriz Ferreyra,

with her Echo(e)s, in her Absence,

without Time Signatures

Slashing and Asterisking

Noctalgia

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Performance and Communities
Zusatzinfo	61 Illustrations, color; 70 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	780 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-83595-220-8 / 1835952208
ISBN-13	978-1-83595-220-7 / 9781835952207
Zustand	Neuware