Under the label of ‘performance and imaginaries’ we address a key set of questions for the workshop. Performance is a concept that has been developed to emphasise the particular aspects of the practices that constitute social and ecological forms and processes. Szerszynski et al (2003) summarise that performance points suggests practices, often iterative ones that constitute or bring about phenomena that would not exist without this (regular) activity. They continue that this practice always stands in a creative tension with a corresponding script or precedent, which informs that practice, but from which the practice inevitable departs to some extent.
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Performance is the manifestation of agency and the action through which agency and creativity emerge. Performance is thus ephemeral, unpredictable, improvisatory, always contingent on its context. (Szerszynski et al 2003: 3)
