PERFORMANCE RESEARCH VOL.28 ISSUE 2
ON MEETING

Editor: Simon Bayly,
Johanna Linsley
Published by Routledge
140 pages
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2023) 28:1
Softcover

Price: 95 lei


As the extractive economies of sharing and experience continue to encroach upon and profit from every available form of sociality, what are the prospects for the long-cherished modalities of performance, such as encounter, gathering, congregation and assembly? Post-pandemic, what kinds of affects and effects might be generated by coming together otherwise – or simply to become intimate in unfamiliar ways? Taking meeting as a blurry genre that encompasses a host of ways in which collectivity for humans and the more-than-human are negotiated, this issue brings together reflections on a set of singular places, events, spaces and actions that share a commitment to reparative and regenerative forms of contact.

1 Editorial: On Meeting
SIMON BAYLY AND JOHANNA LINSLEY

4 More than a Meeting: Performing the workshop in the art institution
BEN CRANFIELD AND MARIANNE MULVEY

14 The First Thing We Make is the Conditions of our Meeting: A gathering on gathering [Artist pages]
THERON SCHMIDT WITH DIANA DAMIAN MARTIN, MICK DOUGLAS, REZA MIRABI, ELLEN O’BRIEN, RAJNI SHAH, VAL SMITH, LIZZIE THOMSON AND JULIE VULCAN

26 The Minutes of the Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions: Tools in the Garden Shed [Artist pages]
SOPHIE SEITA AND NAOMI WOO

29 Freedom is a Performance Hangout* (*Click on this fake sweat distraction technique to release infinite scroll)
OWEN G. PARRY

39 Ibu in Post-authoritarian Agonism: Protest and mother figures in contemporary Indonesia
JONED SURYATMOKO

49 WE/Time/Trembling/Softly: Chorus for ten voices out of 173467349034879236587595356416534
ANNE BRANNYS AND EDITH KOLLATH

62 first draft·ings: To recover the intimacy of transmission through slow gatherings
SUMEDHA BHATTACHARYYA, SONAM CHATURVEDI, PRIYANK GOTHWAL AND PRIYESH GOTHWAL

70 Contracts as Protocols of Governmentality in Performance Art
DESPINA ZACHAROPOULOU

80 Being and Pub: Phenomenology of pub meeting as performance
SAM ČERMÁK

88 wind meeting: meeting Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s winds
AMAARA RAHEEM

94 Meet – An intimate performative encounter format
CHRISTINE GAIGG

101 rendezvous: no longer not yet i
MARK ROBSON [Artist pages]

106 The Grand Indo Meeting and the Grand Indo Future
JEFFREY FLYNN GAN

110 Meeting at Chisenhale Dance Space in the 1980s
RACHAEL DAVIES

116 Being on Time
SOUNDCAMP: DAWN SCARFE AND GRANT SMITH

121 WORK! From Home: Queer nightlife on Zoom
MADISON MOORE

125 Practising Freedom: Combatting modern slavery in heterotopic spaces
STEPHEN COLLINS AND NII KWATERLAI QUARTEY

130 Playing (with) the Machine I Already Am
IOANA B. JUCAN

131 Book as Meeting Place: Dance, drama and cross-culture reconciliation across the life of physical theatre company Marrugeku
AMANDA CARD

132 Histories, Stories and Encounters with Butō’s Mythopoesis
KATJA CENTONZE

134 Shadows Beneath These Steps
ANNA JAYNE KIMMEL