Performance Research Volume 20 Issue 4
On Institutions
Issue editors: Gigi Argyropoulou and Hypatia Vourloumis
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2015) 20:4
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
pp. 1 - 5
The Institution between Precarization and Participation
Bojana Kunst
pp. 6 - 13
In the Ruins of the University : Institution in personal and public history
Alan Read, Forster & Heighes
pp. 14 - 25
We are the Information and its Record [artist’s pages]
Kenneth Pietrobono
pp. 26 - 29
The Magic of Artworlds (Three Scenes from Belgrade)
Ana Vujanović
pp. 30 - 38
We Can’t Go on Meeting Like This : Notes on affect and post-democratic organization
Simon Bayly
pp. 39 - 48
What Theatre Can Do When We Know What is to be Done?
Goran Sergej Pristaš, BADCo.
pp. 49 - 52
Ellen Stewart’s La Mama ETC as Lower East Side Landing Site
Hillary Miller
pp. 53 - 61
The (Spectral) Lure of the Past : Sadler’s Wells, capital and the institution of dance
Kélina Gotman
pp. 62 - 70
Institutional Formations and Artistic Critique in German Ensemble Theatre
Jonas Tinius
pp. 71 - 77
Confronting the Institution in Performance : Liberate Tate's Hidden Figures
Liberate Tate
pp. 78 - 84
Otherwise, Instituting
Ashon Crawley
pp. 85 - 89
Topology of Space of the Independent Scenes in Serbia and Macedonia
Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska, Jasmina Zaloznik
pp. 90 - 95
It’s about Time : Creative placemaking and performance analytics
Sarah Wilbur
pp. 96 - 103
Putting Policy into Performance Studies?
Brandon Woolf
pp. 104 - 111
The Impact Market : The complicity of practitioner-researchers in ‘the spread of the university beyond the university’
Paul Clarke
pp. 112 - 121
Two Live Artists in the Theatre : A Dialogue
Tania El Khoury, Deborah Pearson
pp. 122 - 126
Glossary : ‘On Institutions’
pp. 127 - 133
Solidarity
P.A. Skantze
pp. 134 - 135
Art Storage/Yafka [artist's pages]
Eirene Efstathiou
pp. 136 - 140
Mikey the Rebelator
Stefano Harney, Fred Moten
pp. 141 - 145
Looking à Skantze: the Spectator’s Turn (review)
Nicolas Whybrow
pp. 146 - 148
Notes on Contributors
pp. 149 - 150
