Editing Performativity (section)

==Defining performance==
Performance is a bodily practice that produces meaning. It is the presentation or 're-actualization' of [[symbolic system]]s through living bodies as well as lifeless mediating objects, such as [[architecture]].<ref name="McKenzie 2005">McKenzie (2005)</ref> In the academic field, as opposed to the domain of the [[performance|performing arts]], the concept of performance is generally used to highlight dynamic interactions between [[social actor]]s or between a social actor and their immediate environment.

Performance is an equivocal concept and for the purpose of analysis it is useful to distinguish between two senses of 'performance'. 
In the more formal sense, performance refers to a framed event. Performance in this sense is an enactment out of convention and tradition. Founder of the discipline of [[performance studies]] [[Richard Schechner]] dubs this category 'is-performance'.<ref name="Schechner 2006, p. 38">Schechner (2006), p. 38</ref> In a weaker sense, performance refers to the informal scenarios of daily life, suggesting that everyday practices are 'performed'. Schechner called this the 'as-performance'.<ref name="Schechner 2006, p. 38"/>
Generally the performative turn is concerned with the latter, although the two senses of performance should be seen as ends of a spectrum rather than distinct categories.<ref name="Schechner 2006, p. 38"/>