#4390. Venus Hottentot: performance ethnography, the audience and resisting racism

August 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Sara Baartman (Venus Hottentot) was an African teenager lured to Europe to perform for audiences in 1810; her genitals and brain were posthumously dissected, pickled and museumized. In 20XX, ‘Venus Hottentot: A Short Play’ was staged at The University of MA, Amherst, and the audience participated in free writing at the end of the performance. The paradigm for the play and audience research is performance ethnography, which emphasises using research and writing as a political act to destabilise colonial power. I analyze the audience’s writing and make recommendations for resisting racism against Black bodies in theatre practice and activist scholarship.
Keywords:
audience; Baartman; ethnography; performance; Venus

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