Welcome to the PSi text pages, a new feature of the PSi website concerned with ideas and dialogues on performance, theatre and live art, practice and theory.

The PSi text pages are an ongoing series of textual contributions by leading figures in the field of performance: performance theoreticians, artists, cultural activists and curators. They aim to act as an access point for the uninitiated and as reference markers or axes in the debates that concern the field of performance studies. Together the pages will form a patchwork of vital opinions and diverse voices.

The latest addition to the PSi text pages is a new series of Polemics. The series was initiated by Alan Read's provocation to re-imagine the fabric of theatre's archive and the future of the London Theatre Museum and now contains new texts from Janelle Reinelt, Joe Kelleher, José Esteban Muñoz, PA Skantze, Gavin Butt and Michael Peterson. We invite responses or counter-polemics and would like to remind you that this is an ongoing series.

Here you will also find Remembering Dwight Conquergood, a series of tributes to Dwight Conquergood, one of the founding figures in the field, discussing the impact and legacy of his work.

We have also launched a new series of texts concerned with elemental questions for the field. The first installment of these brings together numerous contributors to answer: What is Performance Studies? What is an international? The responses have been as diverse and thought provoking as the Performance Studies field itself.

To read each of these texts click on the appropriate link to the left of this page.

We intend to publish other texts here covering a range of important questions for the field. We have a number of questions we intend to pursue: What is the difference between social and aesthetic performance? What is performative writing? What is the relationship between performance studies and theatre studies? What is an event?

If you have a new, short and accessible text you would like to add to our existing sets, or an editorial idea for this space, please submit your suggestions to Branislava Kuburovic

For each of these texts opinion and Copyright remains the property of the author and not of PSi.