Performance Studies: Key Problems Seen from Central-European Perspective
Performance Studies: Key Problems Seen from Central-European Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The essential problem of this essay is a discrepancy between the performance studies (PS) in Richard Schechner’s version and the academic world in Central-Eastern Europe, where the researchers respect procedures that have their roots in modernity. We intuitively sense the “per- formatization” of the world. Can this “performatization” be included in the humanities as a sepa- rate, original, coherent research object? Schechner writes that ”many who practice PS do not aspire to ideological neutrality.” Is such a person a researcher or a critic involved in the fight with the mainstream currents of cultural development? A researcher or a publicist? Is this attitude ac- ceptable on academic grounds?

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