{"id":503,"date":"2019-08-01T13:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=503"},"modified":"2019-08-07T11:05:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:05:45","slug":"keren-zaiontz","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/keren-zaiontz\/","title":{"rendered":"Keren Zaiontz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Keren Zaiontz<\/strong> is Assistant Professor and Queen\u2019s National Scholar in the Department of Film and Media and Cultural Studies Program at Queen\u2019s University, Kingston, Canada. Her research examines how contemporary art and performance is remapping modes of spectatorship, shaping progressive social movements, and charting the right to the global city.\u00a0She has co-edited special issues\u00a0on the cultural politics of festivals and mega-events for the journals\u00a0<i>Canadian Theatre Review<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Contemporary Theatre Review<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>PUBLIC<\/i>. Her books include\u00a0<i>Theatre &amp; Festivals<\/i> (2018), part of the <i>Theatre &amp;<\/i> series, and <i>Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance Actions in the Americas<\/i>\u00a0(forthcoming, 2019), co-edited\u00a0with Natalie Alvarez and Claudette Lauzon, part of Palgrave Macmillan\u2019s Contemporary Performance InterActions series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keren Zaiontz is Assistant Professor and Queen\u2019s National Scholar in the Department of Film and Media and Cultural Studies Program at Queen\u2019s University, Kingston, Canada. Her research examines how contemporary art and performance is remapping modes of spectatorship, shaping progressive social movements, and charting the right to the global city.\u00a0She has co-edited special issues\u00a0on the cultural politics of festivals and mega-events for the journals\u00a0Canadian Theatre Review,\u00a0Contemporary Theatre Review, and\u00a0PUBLIC. Her books include\u00a0Theatre &#038; Festivals (2018), part of the Theatre &#038; series, and Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance Actions in the Americas\u00a0(forthcoming, 2019), co-edited\u00a0with Natalie Alvarez and Claudette Lauzon, part of Palgrave Macmillan\u2019s Contemporary Performance InterActions series.","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}