White Sun

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.