ABSTRACT

In 2004, Performance Studies came to Singapore for a brief visit, and, by some accounts, it was a fraught encounter. That year, a Performance Studies international (PSi) conference, PSi #10, was hosted in Singapore, the first time this association gathered in ‘Asia’. In this essay, I use this conference as a starting point to tease out the intersections between my discipline and my home country, and the anxieties and potentialities that arise from bringing the two in the same space with someone like me as an interlocutor. In doing so, I critically raise the question: what does it mean to ‘perform’ Performance Studies in a place such as Singapore, a (post-)colonial, soft- authoritarian state?

摘要

2004年，Performance Studies来到新加坡进行了短暂访问，从某些方面来看，这是一次充满感情的遭遇。那年，国际绩效研究（PSi）会议PSi＃10在新加坡举行，这是该协会第一次聚集在“亚洲”。在本文中，我以这次会议为起点来梳理我的学科与我的祖国之间的交叉点，以及将两者与像我这样的对话者带入同一空间所产生的焦虑和潜力。在此过程中，我提出了一个严峻的问题：在像新加坡这样的（后）殖民地，软专制国家中“执行”绩效研究意味着什么？