Brendan McCauley

Brendan is an ABD Phd Candidate in Communication, working at the intersection of production and performance studies to track the development of creative labor practices.

His dissertation research is an ethnographic study of studio artists dispersed across regional networks in the American Northeast. It explores how digital platforms, pandemics and center-periphery dynamics have altered the articulation of arts practices and compounded the many strains on arts labor. His mid-production documentary, “Scramble & Scrounge”, explores the impact of covid-19 lockdowns on performance venues and arts organizations in Western Massachusetts. As a curator and gallery director he has overseen more than 100 exhibitions, performances, film festivals, and events across New England, and currently serves as the Director of the Student Union Art Gallery at UMass.

Media and Cultural Production, Media Industries, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Political Economy

• Comm 331 Television and Video Production Process
• Art 155 Foundations Video
• Comm 140 Introduction to Film Studies
• Comm 497CS Screen Cultures: Medium and Messaging
• Academic Director, Great Books Summer Program, Writer’s Workshop

Parascopic Media: Platformizing Performance with 3D, Dentistry and Drag”. Here: https://www.critical-stages.org/25/parascopic-media-platformizing-performance-with-3d-dentistry-and-drag/