ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to locate performance within the conceptualization of space and to argue, through a case study, how its transformative power requires being incorporated both into the material space and into the capacity of the subjects to activate a variation in the relational assets. The appropriation of space that produces the uniqueness of a place cannot come about without the space-related actions of which the space itself is the pre-condition. When space is seriously decomposed, performance becomes a mere representation that will struggle to succeed in transforming the given conditions in which it unfolds and to produce processes subjectively oriented towards change. The unravelled space is a space subject to domination because it does not allow transformative performance rooted in space.
