Performance Paradigm 17 (2022)

Perform or Else? Revisiting Jon McKenzie's Work in the Post-Pandemic World

Performance Paradigm 17 is online now!

This latest issue revisits Jon McKenzie's Perform or Else, reflecting on the book's influence on performance studies and beyond over the last two decades, and thinking about what its insights mean in a post-pandemic era.

The issue is edited by Emma Willis, Chris Hay and Nien Yuan Cheng and features an interdisciplinary range of long and short articles, as well as interviews with McKenzie and artist pages. 

Contributors include: Tim Edkins, Ioana B. Jucan, Ali Na, Shuntaro Yoshida, Natsumi Fukasawa, Esther Neff, Nien Yuan Cheng, Chris Hay, Emma Willis, Jon McKenzie, Edward Scheer, Sara Baranzoni, Paolo Vignola,  Helen Dickinson, Fabian Muniesa, Anna Islind, Anthony Gritten, Miško Šuvaković and Goran Sergej Pristaš.