Distant Early Warnings: Arts Leadership and Creative Practice in Unsettled Times

Distant Early Warnings: Arts Leadership and Creative Practice in Unsettled Times is a MA research-creation project that reflects on the relationship between arts leadership, creative practice, and cultural change. Using songwriting as an embodied, queer feminist method, this ‘portfolio’ format thesis includes three songs and six written chapters to examine the experience of being the Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre between 2015 and 2020. Engaging Marshall McLuhan’s idea of art as a “Distant Early Warning system,” the project explores how art, artists, and arts organizations may function as vanguards and harbingers of the future.

Department dc:contributor.department

Cultural Studies

Author dc:creator

• Parry, Evalyn S.M.

Advisors dc:contributor.supervisor

• Rogalsky, Matt
• Murray, Laura

• Arts Leadership
• Artistic Direction
• Theatre
• Canadian Theatre
• Feminist
• Queer
• Decolonization
• Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
• Songwriting
• Autotheory
• Choral Music

Statement dc:rights

• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1974/32043

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:queensu.scholaris.ca:1974/32043