Description
On Institutions explores the relation between performance and institutions building on the premise that institutional structures are formed through repeated sets of practices, patterns and relations. Through a performance studies lens that approaches the figure of the institution as verb, this issue considers how institutions are performance and in turn how performance practices may enforce, destabilize and initiate new modes of organisation. Although often read as abstractions of seemingly objective, entrenched and systematic structures, institutions, whether formal or informal, are always social processes. Thus, if institutional constructions and resources are established through repeated modes of action and arrangements, how might certain performance practices constitute radical acts, becomings and socialities, and by extension, potential performances of instituting otherwise? This edition of Performance Research brings to the fore theoretical discourses and artistic production that explicitly negotiate with institutions through experimental praxes from within, through and beyond them.
Settings and Steppings
Gigi Argyropoulou, Hypatia Vourloumis
The Institution between Precarization and Participation
Bojana Kunst
In the Ruins of the University : Institution in personal and public history
Alan Read, Forster & Heighes
We are the Information and its Record (artist’s pages)
Kenneth Pietrobono
The Magic of Artworlds (Three Scenes from Belgrade)
Ana Vujanović
We Can’t Go on Meeting Like This : Notes on affect and post-democratic organization
Simon Bayly
Goran Sergej Pristaš, BADCoEllen Stewart’s La Mama ETC as Lower East Side Landing Site
Hillary Miller
The (Spectral) Lure of the Past : Sadler’s Wells, capital and the institution of dance
Kélina Gotman
Institutional Formations and Artistic Critique in German Ensemble Theatre
Jonas Tinius
Confronting the Institution in Performance : Liberate Tate’s Hidden Figures
Liberate Tate
Otherwise, Instituting
Ashon Crawley
Topology of Space of the Independent Scenes in Serbia and Macedonia
Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska, Jasmina Zaloznik
It’s about Time : Creative placemaking and performance analytics
Sarah Wilbur
Putting Policy into Performance Studies?
Brandon Woolf
The Impact Market : The complicity of practitioner-researchers in ‘the spread of the university beyond the university’
Paul Clarke
Two Live Artists in the Theatre : A Dialogue
Tania El Khoury, Deborah Pearson
Glossary : ‘On Institutions’
Solidarity
P.A. Skantze
Art Storage/Yafka [artist’s pages]
Eirene Efstathiou
Mikey the Rebelator
Stefano Harney, Fred Moten
Looking à Skantze: the Spectator’s Turn (review)
Nicolas Whybrow
