Transition—Critical Reflections

Abstract

Reflections on the work of a critic in this processual alongside move from critical theorising about a rhetoric of performativity and what it can offer to approaching a politics of practice, to studies of performers who are generating pathways toward both sustaining process and finding appropriate (resting places for sociosituated political activities. This raises acute questions about the distinctions between documenting and articulation, and the process and appropriateness of critical activity. Critical performativity, or documenting, attends to the engagement of the whole somatic complex of a sentient being in the moment of change—that feeling of not-knowing what will happen, and yet, also being open to what happens. Critical articulation only then finds words that can render that change into something that can be talked about conceptually.