Performing Institutions

Contested Sites and Structures of Care

Anja Mølle Lindelof, Shauna Janssen, Anja Molle Lindelof

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English

Intellect Books
19 April 2023

Dance & Performing arts; Other performing arts; Institutions & learned societies: general

An investigation of performative encounters of culture, politics, and education in and for institutional settings.

This book builds on 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 different 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 an international range of case studies and critical reflections—from Denmark, Ireland, Finland, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Chile, Asia, and Australasia—contributors show how they envision or pursue performing artistic, cultural, social, and educational practices as caring engagements with contested sites. They address 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).

Edited by: Anja Mølle Lindelof, Shauna Janssen, Anja Molle Lindelof
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789386653
ISBN 10: 1789386659
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 19 April 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anja Mølle Lindelof is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator, affiliated with Roskilde University, Denmark. She has served as head of studies for the Performance Design Programme and investigates performative approaches to institutions and their audiences. Shauna Janssen is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher and educator based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Turtle Island/Canada. She is Assistant Professor of Performance Creation and holds a University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism at Concordia University.