On Value has grown out of the planning and realisation of PSi#18, University of Leeds, 27 June \u2013 1 July 2012, where the theme was \u2018performance :: culture :: industry\u2019. The accelerating crisis in neo-liberalism lent further urgency to the conference discussion, and especially to notions of \u2018value\u2019. At the heart of the theme was the recognition that there is often a fundamental tension between cultural value and economic value and it is this which, conceptually and concretely, situates manifestations of performance in relationship to wider social and economic conditions. This issue addresses notions of value as they pertain to performance.<\/p>\n
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Editorial : On Value
\nJoslin McKinney, Mick Wallis
\npp. 1 – 3
\nPIECE\/PEACE WORK : Engendering \u2018rationalities of care\u2019 through a thread-by-thread deconstruction of militarism
\nHelene Vosters
\npp. 4 – 14
\nTroublesome Professionals : On the speculative reality of theatrical labour
\nTheron Schmidt
\npp. 15 – 26
\nInspiration Exchange : The value of sitting opposite [artists’ pages]
\nAlexander Kelly
\npp. 27 – 30
\nValuing Ecologies of Performance : Culture and capital in a neoliberal world
\nPeter Eckersall, Dominic Gray, Jisha Menon, Mike van Graan, Mike van Graan
\npp. 31 – 45
\nDomestic Train Wreck : A radical utopia
\nMelanie Bennett
\npp. 46 – 55
\nColonists, Settlers and Aboriginal Australian War Cries : Cultural performance and economic exchange
\nMaryrose Casey
\npp. 56 – 66
\nOn Value and Necessity : The Green Book and its others
\nMick Wallis, Joslin McKinney
\npp. 67 – 79
\nBeyond Capitalist Value : Experimental persistence in the austere city
\nJasmine Mahmoud
\npp. 80 – 91
\nWhat is it Worth? [artists’ pages]
\nJeff McMahon
\npp. 92 – 95
\nVision, Viability and Value : Three perspectives on the performing arts across cultures, context and nations
\nBree Hadley, Anuradha Kapur, Clarissa Ruiz, Sheena Wrigley, Sheena Wrigley
\npp. 95 – 101
\nTurning Tourists into Performers : Revaluing agency, action and space in sites of heritage tourism
\nPhil Smith
\npp. 102 – 113
\nYou Have to Be What You\u2019re Talking About : Youth poets, amateur counter-conduct, and parrhesiastic value in the amateur youth poetry slam
\nTakeo Rivera
\npp. 114 – 123
\nAd Astra
\nSalamanda Tandem
\npp. 124 – 127
\nAudience Participation and Neoliberal Value : Risk, agency and responsibility in immersive theatre
\nAdam Alston
\npp. 128 – 138
\nReview : Performance Couplings
\nPeta Tait
\npp. 139 – 140
\nNotes on Contributors
\npp. 141 – 142<\/p>\n\n\n