This issue contends that state violence is not an aberration or outlier but is intrinsic to the state's nature. Contributions use decolonial, feminist, queer and Marxist perspectives to examine the role of 'performance', broadly conceived, in relation to law enforcement, criminal justice, the military, surveillance, censorship, borders, racialisation, gender policing, and welfare. 'On State Violence' reconsiders the discipline's approach to state violence and asks how the field might act, critically and creatively, amid its enduring presence in an age of globally resurgent authoritarianism.

This issue of Performance Research examines coalitions – artistic, political, institutional – and the performances that make them possible. Originally proffered by radical feminists of colour as an alternative to white feminism’s sisterhood, 'coalition' represents a fraught, power-laden process assuming incommensurability. How do we account for differences in collaborative pursuits without deploying a totalizing 'we'? Contributions explore contemporary manifestations of coalitional dramaturgies across micro and macro cosmoses: from institution-building models to leaderless artistic practices, from collaborative methodologies to entangled notions of history, ethics, pedagogy, curation and coalescence.

This issue proposes a focus on land/scapes as urgent and productive for discussing, analysing and making performance today. Land/scapes are considered as an active element and as a focal point for understanding emergent practices at the intersection of politics, ecology and performance. To think with/on land/scapes is to challenge the hierarchies of a linear understanding and the validity of an external point of view. Being in and on land/scapes means recognizing ways of making that challenge the means of domination, and to institute modes of doing and thinking that recognize dependencies. By emphasizing dense interconnections, entanglements and interdependencies in land/scapes, this issue explores ways of knowing and studying in and with the body and in relation to shaping and being shaped by the land/scapes we inhabit.