Department
Theatre and Performance Studies
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 9-2025
Embargo Period
9-4-2025
Abstract
The Doll’s Head Trail is a grassroots, low-art installation nestled within a Southeast Atlanta wildlife preserve. Constructed by volunteers and visitors from decades of environmental debris, the trail converts waste into folk art-inspired “junk” displays. The creative upcycling ranges from a miniscule shrine to “Toxic Masculinity” to a stark shoe pile commemorating child gun violence. This article details how queer theory’s “temporal turn” provides insights into material performance as collaborative regeneration. The curious vignettes playfully invert hierarchies, revealing the merits of small-time memorialization. Through these defiantly unofficial grassroot performances, the Doll’s Head Trail both remembers and restores community ruins, demonstrating the aesthetic and political potential of low-art material performance.
Journal Title
Puppetry International Research
Journal ISSN
2994-7944
Volume
2
Issue
2
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
N/A
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Aesthetics Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Interactive Arts Commons, Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Commons, Performance Studies Commons, Queer Studies Commons