Performing Institutions: Contested Sites and Structures of Care
builds upon scholarly work rooted in the social and cultural
histories of education, self-organization, activist practices,
performance, design, and artistic research, (at)tending to the ways
that institutions are necessarily political and performed. By
evoking the idea of Performing Institutions, it foregrounds all
kinds of 'actors' that engage with (re)imagining creative practices
- social, artistic, and pedagogical - that critically interact with
institutional frameworks and the broader local and global society
of which these institutions are part. With case studies and
critical reflections from Denmark, Ireland, Finland, the UK,
Canada, the USA, Chile, Asia and Australasia contributors show how
they envision or pursue performing artistic, cultural, social and
educational practices as caring engagements with contested sites,
addressing the following questions. How do current institutions
perform - academically, spatially, custodially and structurally?
How might we stay engaged with the ways that institutions are
inherently contested sites, and what role do care, and
counter-hegemonic practices play in rearticulating other ways of
performing institutions, and how they perform on us? These are the
questions central to this book as it stages a productive tension
between two main themes: structures of care (instituting otherwise)
and sites of contestations (desiring change). Some of the texts in
this collection stage a productive tension between ideas about
caring contestations and contestation as a caring engagement in
practice, with a view towards institutional transformation. Other
contributors investigate the idea of caring contestations as a
critical concept that draws attention to questions of power and to
the exclusions produced and reproduced in and through specific
institutional practices. As such, this collection of writing puts
forward caring contestations as a critical mode for (re)enacting
institutional engagements. This also brings forward questions of
agency and how, for those of us who perform within institutional
structures, we care to engage and/or contest those institutional
engagements. It is primarily aimed at scholars, educators,
research-practitioners and postgraduate students in the fields of
performance studies, theory, creation and design, those working at
art institutions and art schools Also relevant to researchers
working across various fields of organizational as well as
educational approaches to performance culture.
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