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. Performance Studies also leads to how individual performances are institutionally contextualised, and how institutions performatively constitute agency within their parameters.

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Ray Langenbach