Performance
This group supports transdisciplinary inquiries, collaborations, and projects centered around the concept of “performance” across areas and cultures to connect and extend our notions of performance practices both historically and in contemporary contexts.
About PRW
“The fields of organizational, cultural, and technological performance, when taken together, form an immense performance site, one that potentially encompasses the spheres of human labor and leisure activities and the behaviors of all industrial and electronically produced technologies.” (J. McKenzie, Perform or Else, 12)
Performance and “performative” have become widely adopted critical and theoretical concepts across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. As such, the concept of performance extends beyond aesthetic and cultural considerations to operate both as an object of study and as a critical methodology across disciplines.
Specifically, the group features:
- an ongoing reading series;
- presentations and feedback for faculty and graduate work in development (including drafts, project critique, and other forms of critical response)
- visiting speakers focused on the deployment of performance in diverse contexts.
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