ABSTRACT
The future of performance as research is linked to its past; following the thinking of Karen Barad, among others, the past and the future are continually reworked and negotiated. One future development of performance as research, is a methodological understanding of performance as research. Another future development for performance as research is to coevolve with the contested field of artistic research, with its roots in the contemporary art world and the legacy of conceptual and critical art, and all the challenges that entails. Performance as research can also be located within the general field of practice as research. What distinguishes artistic research as it is mostly understood from performance as research is a stronger link to the art world and the claim that artistic research is a field or a discipline, an area for knowledge creation, rather than a specific methodology. Performance as research, like artistic research, could be understood as a speculative practice engaged in both.
