Shane Boyle - global dis:connect

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Shane Boyle

Shane is a senior lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on logistics, Marxism, and performance history. He has published widely on the political economy of art, including the book The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism (Stanford University Press 2024). Shane holds a PhD in performance studies from UC Berkeley and co-edited Postdramatic Theatre and Form (Bloomsbury 2019). He is also a member of the Performance and Political Economy research collective.

Generative Refusals: The Blockade as Art Form in the Logistics Revolution

As a fellow at global dis:connect, Shane will write a monograph on how the art world has become entangled in the planetary mine of supply chain capitalism. In addition to detailing the ways that contemporary museums, galleries and theaters depend on rare metals and mineral resources, Shane’s research will survey the efforts of artists since the logistics revolution to blockade and sabotage extractive infrastructures.

Have a look at Shane’s research poster about his project and find out more about the workshop Shane organzied during her fellowship together with Gerald Siegmund.

You can watch here an interview with Shane on his project at gd:c.

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Click HERE to mail Shane and HERE for a list of his publications.