Updated information RSS of this wiki'HOW PSi THINKS' (roundtable discussion)
How does Performance Studies international think? Is there a coherent institutional agency in PSi’s performance and its bureaucratic routinisations? Has the time come for PSi to model its own performance?
In 1986 Mary Douglas reflected on the question of ‘how institutions think’ in a book by that name. She argued that institutions archive public memory, create and maintain classifications, and determine the parameters of their respective cognitive and social epistemes. All writing on performance eventually addresses the manner in which individual performances are institutionally contextualised, and how institutions performatively constitute agency within their parameters.
This roundtable is an opportunity for those interested to consider ‘How PSi thinks’, that is, to engage in a discussion of the past and future of PSi as structure, organisation and performance.
The intention is to inaugurate a metadiscourse focusing on the performative construction of PSi. Each year PSi parasites, or instantiates itself as a conference space or a ‘compound’ where an imagined community of 'citizens' manifest annually within the compound with little regard for its contextual siting. The politics of developmentalism and globalization are at stake in the formation and the annual meetings of PSi (which still maintains the small ‘i’ 14 years after its inauguration in New York) but remain largely unaddressed.
This session will present an opportunity to think critically about PSi as organisational structure, as a system of agreement, and as performance. The session will not have papers per se. Those interested are invited to join an on-line dialogue here. The on-line dialogue and other off-line live dialogues will then lead to a series of provocations to be posed and addressed during the session. The next page (The Thread) includes the comments that led to the planning of this session. Add your comments to the online discussion there.
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