White Sun

Dickie, WilL and Zontou, Zoe (2026) White Sun. In: Performing Recovery: Addiction, Vulnerability and the Ethics of Representation. Routledge, pp. 107-128. ISBN 9781003142881

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Abstract

This chapter expands the exploration of performance making in addiction recovery by examining how vulnerability, creativity, and lived experience intersect with white privilege. Co-written with performance artist WilL Dickie and centered on his work White Sun, it explores how his practice interrogates whiteness, societal structures, and privilege, transforming personal recovery into a lens for critical reflection. Drawing on DiAngelo (2018), Menakem (2017), and Ryde (2019), white privilege is framed as a systemic condition shaping opportunities, visibility, and experience, linked here to creativity and vulnerability. Through this lens, the chapter interrogates the ethical, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions of representing recovery, showing how vulnerability operates as a generative force. By combining Dickie’s work with frameworks on embodiment, ethics, and privilege, the chapter demonstrates how socially engaged performance reconceptualizes addiction recovery as a creative, ethical, and political practice.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Creative and Performing Arts
SWORD Depositor:	RISE Symplectic
Depositing User:	RISE Symplectic
Date Deposited:	22 May 2026 13:58
Last Modified:	22 May 2026 13:58
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4913

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