MISperformance is the first of three issues that Performance Research will produce in association with Performance Studies International, and in collaboration with the annual hosts of the PSI conferences 2009 \u2013 2011. Each issue will respond in different ways to the theme of the conference. PSI#15 (Zagreb, June 2009) asked the question \u2018Is misperformance a supplement of the Performance Studies paradigm \u2013 a concept, an event, an effect that was always there in various theoretical underpinnings of the discipline, yet somehow never fully at the center of the debate?\u2019 The MISperformance issue provides an insight into the various strands of this reflection, ranging from issues of political misrepresentation, via questions of mis-spectatorship and artistic abstinence, to aberrant pathways of documenting contemporary performance practice, and, well … downright lies! Alongside the conference theme, PSi#15 introduced the format of \u2018Shifts\u2019, experiments at the intersections of various modalities of performative presentations; hybrid collaborative platforms inviting both artists and scholars to jointly (mis)perform in-between conventional modes of making a conference, doing art, being an artist or an activist, being a scholar or a curator. The MISperformance issue will include a DVD following the curatorial strategy and program of the PSI#15 Shifts.<\/p>\n
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Intro 2: Dramaturgy of Shift(s)(ing)
\nMarin Bla\u017eevi\u0107
\npp. 5 – 11
\nThe School of Sisyphus [artists pages]
\nRachel Fensham, Joe Kelleher
\npp. 12 – 16
\nBody Manifold: Mathematics (mis)performed by Vituvian and Acephalic bodies
\nNicolas Salazar Sutil
\npp. 17 – 22
\nArt, Sexuality and Images: The legalization of pornography in Denmark
\nRune Gade
\npp. 23 – 28
\nPlaying More than the Cancer Card
\nBrian Lobel
\npp. 29 – 33
\nFirst, Second, Third [artists pages \u2013 Abandoned Practices]
\nMatthew Goulish
\npp. 34 – 38
\nGalileo\u2019s Finger and the Perspiring Waxwork: On death, appearance and the promise of flesh
\nSophie Nield
\npp. 39 – 43
\nFear of Falling: Misperformance and re-enactment in national spectacle
\nGunhild Borggreen
\npp. 44 – 49
\nmisadventure [artists pages]
\nLaurie Beth Clark
\npp. 50 – 53
\nCollecting Tears: Remembering the Romani Holocaust
\nIoana Szeman
\npp. 54 – 59
\nRemembering Revolutionary Masquerade: Performing insurgency, ambivalent identity and the taboo pleasures of colonial (tres)passing in wartime Vietnam
\nRivka Syd Eisner
\npp. 60 – 65
\nCapturing Moments of Misperformance: \u2018Local Tales\u2019
\nDaphna Ben-Shaul, Ruth Kanner, Janelle Reinelt
\npp. 66 – 73
\nThe Zoostage as Another Ethical Misfiring: The spectacle of the animal victim in the name of art
\nSuzana Marjanic
\npp. 74 – 79
\n\u2018Never Work with Children and Animals\u2019: Risk, mistake and the real in performance
\nLourdes Orozco
\npp. 80 – 85
\nDark Room [artists pages]
\nMichael Peterson
\npp. 86 – 87
\nUpholstered Realism and \u2018The Great Futurist Railroad\u2019: Theatrical \u2018train wrecks\u2019 and the return of the repressed
\nKyle Gillette
\npp. 88 – 93
\nPerformance and its \u2018Inappropriate Objects\u2019: Rory Macbeth\u2019s sculptures as performative mis-taking
\nMarco Pustianaz
\npp. 94 – 98
\nShifting Shifts [artists pages]
\nMatthew Fink, P.A. Skantze
\npp. 99 – 103
\nA Culture of Revolt: Misreading laughter\u2019s revenge?
\nCharlie Fox
\npp. 104 – 109
\nGlitch in the Machine
\nMario Vrbanci\u0107
\npp. 110 – 117
\nHow to Perform Neizvodljivo? [artists pages \u2013 Unperformable]
\nBranislav Jakovljevic, Ljubisa Matic, Prelom Kolective
\npp. 118 – 122
\nThe \u2018Dirty Work\u2019 of the Lie
\nBree Hadley, Jelena Rajak, Andrew Filmer
\npp. 123 – 129
\nNotes on Contributors
\npp. 130 – 132
\nPR and PSi: a joint venture
\npp. 133 – 133
\nDVD Contents List
\npp. 134 – 134<\/p>\n\n\n