The cycleborg: everyday performances of solidarity and hope of the cycling female

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dc.contributor.authorGarton, Rosie
dc.date.acceptance2024-03-13
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-07T17:00:14Z
dc.date.available2024-11-07T17:00:14Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-16
dc.descriptionopen access article
dc.description.abstractThis article weaves together autoethnographic accounts, feminist readings of technology, agency, and performance, and historical points of reference to address the current gender gap in urban cycling in the UK. Through the lens of everyday performance, I examine how females on bicycles are marked as both highly visible spectacles and invisible ‘others’. In developing the feminist promise of the mechanically monstrous cyborg, I offer a new revolutionary figure of hope – the cycleborg – who puts her otherness to use. In doing so, she calls attention to the need re-think hegemonic attitudes towards mobility, agency, and environmentally conscious action. My argument for the performative and revolutionary potential of the cycleborg reconciles everyday gendered performance with environmental consciousness, and is analysed through two contemporary performances: Katie Mitchell’s Atmen (2013) and Hanna Cormick’s The Mermaid (2020). By examining the use of hybrid actors in these performances as tools for promoting social responsibility and radical statements about climate change, I propose, with a romantic, feminist, and fierce hope, that the cycleborg both offers a contemporary vehicle for environmental change and opens possibilities to claim a new kind of space in the world.
dc.funderNo external funder
dc.identifier.citationGarton, R. (2024) The cycleborg: everyday performances of solidarity and hope of the cycling female. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 44 (1), pp. 24–40
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2024.2341366
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/24511
dc.language.isoen
dc.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.relation.ispartofseries10.1080/14682761.2024.2341366
dc.researchinstitute.instituteInstitute of Arts, Design and Performance
dc.titleThe cycleborg: everyday performances of solidarity and hope of the cycling female
dc.typeArticle

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