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This global anthology offers a constellation of practices, genealogies, contexts, movements, events, artists, theories, and debates around performance art and its meaning, current and future research, and emerging critical discourse. At the core of this collection is the understanding that performance art and its organizations emerged globally, without a single point of origin. Each chapter engages artists and practices from different moments and regions, foregrounding how cultural and social conditions shape distinct motivations, methods, relations, and interpretive frameworks.

Gwyneth Shanks’s chapter, “A Basket and a Dancer: Activating Archives and Practicing Repatriation Otherwise,” focuses on a piece by the choreographer and artist Tanya Lukin Linklater.