T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko
15 King's College Circle
Campus: St. George
T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies. She coedited TDR’s special issue “Caught Off-Garde: New Theatre Ensembles in NYC (mostly)” with Mariellen R. Sandford in 2010, and, with Isabel Stowell-Kaplan and Didier Morelli in 2015, a special issue of CTR entitled “Performing Products: When Acting Up Is Selling Out.” She is also an occasional dramaturge, having collaborated on productions in New York, Toronto, Chicago, and Morelia, Mexico. In fall 2012, Professor Cesare Schotzko organized the SSHRC- and Jackman Humanities Institute-supported conference The Future of Cage: Credo in celebration of the centenary of composer John Cage, which brought together an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars and artists including Allen S. Weiss and Pauline Oliveros and culminated in a new performance of Cage's 1976 Lecture on the Weather at Arraymusic. Her first book, Learning How to Fall: Art and Culture after September 11, engages the skewed relationship between 21st-century media technologies, perception, and pop culture, and her current research explores what she considers to be a trending nihilism, or #nihilism, within literal and metaphoric climate change.
Education
- PhD, New York University
- MMus, The Hartt School
- MA, New York University
- BMus, Oberlin Conservatory
- BA, Oberlin College
Research Interests
- Performance art
- Experimental performance and avant-garde theatre
- Music-theatre
- Intermedial performance
- Feminism and phenomenology
- Intersections with popular culture
Publications
Book
Chapters in Edited Collections
- "'How Were We to Know We Were Happy?’: Fairy-Tale (Fr)antics and Margaret Atwood’s Fickle Feminism." In Women in Popular Culture in Canada, edited by Laine Zisman Newman. Toronto: Women's Press, Canadian Scholars' Press, 2020.
- "Compassionate Acts: Performance as Radical Care." In The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art, edited by Bertie Ferdman and Jovana Stokic. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
- "'The Death of Performance Art!': Performing Performance Art Documentation." In Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies, edited by Heather Davis-Fisch. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2017.
Edited Journal Issues
- The Other 'D': Locating Dance in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, coedited with Seika Boye, Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, and Evadne Kelly. Performance Matters, Forum, vol. 2, no. 2 (2016).
- Performing Products: When Acting Up Is Selling Out, coedited with Didier Morelli and Isabel Stowell-Caplan. Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 162 (2015).
Articles
- "Message Send Failure: Site-Unspecificity in Plant Theater’s Dreams of Riley’s Friends; or, Why Won’t Riley Respond to My Texts?" TDR, vol.60, no. 3 (2016).
- "'Haven’t Got Time for the Pain': The State and Stakes of Performance Art 2.0." TRiC, vol. 36, no. 1 (2015).