Completed Notes: Finding Critical Form

Abstract

Performers who make work with disunified audiences try to think through how performative practices can contribute to different approaches to politics as they work with people they do not know. These performers also offer strategies to the critic for keeping this not-knowing alive on the journey so that each responds to respecting the disunified ways of becoming of the participants. And keeping the situated process going through their practice is one way they generate ways of engaging and changing. Without this change there is no energy for breath, let alone action, let alone aiming at sociopolitical formations. Discursive politics are founded on the lived changing of daily ecologies emerging through the rhetorics of performativity that generate the agencies of collaborative groups. And those ecologies are founded on the politics of practice.