The performance studies pendulum
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2024
Abstract
This essay argues that performance studies in communication (PSC) is approaching a point of “nowhereness.” It examines the implications of the 1990s framing of performance studies as an “antidiscipline,” particularly insofar as antidisciplinarity disrupts the concept of disciplinary methodologies such as aesthetic performance. It offers an exemplar case that demonstrates how one familiar, established, perhaps keystone performance studies theory/method/practice–dialogic performance has all but disappeared in PSC research. Finally, it offers a corrective but ultimately invitational call to bolster the communities of practice in PSC, especially in terms of performance-methodological and aesthetic research.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Text and Performance Quarterly
Recommended Citation
Simmons, J., & Brisini, T. (2024). The performance studies pendulum. Text and Performance Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2024.2399768