Johannes Birringer is artist director of AlienNation Co., a multimedia collaborative ensemble with has performed around the world. He is the author of Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism and Media & Performance. He teaches at Ohio State University.

"'A book which finally displaces the most compelling issues about identity and culture in the contemporary world from their academic milieu into unusual and often breathtaking artistic enactment. Placing the reader evocatively inside the productions of culturally and geographically diverse performances, Performance on the Edge uniquely restores life, love and creativity to culture theory.' George Marcus, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University"

• Preface; Introduction: Whose Borders?; After the Revolution; Dialogues and Border Crossings; Makrolab: A Heterotopia; The Transcultural Imaginary, or Standing with the Natives; La Melancolia de la Jaula; Lovers Fragments: Notes Towards a New Performance Eros

Johannes Birringer is artist director of AlienNation Co., a multimedia collaborative ensemble with has performed around the world. He is the author of Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism and Media & Performance. He teaches at Ohio State University.

"'A book which finally displaces the most compelling issues about identity and culture in the contemporary world from their academic milieu into unusual and often breathtaking artistic enactment. Placing the reader evocatively inside the productions of culturally and geographically diverse performances, Performance on the Edge uniquely restores life, love and creativity to culture theory.' George Marcus, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University"

• Preface; Introduction: Whose Borders?; After the Revolution; Dialogues and Border Crossings; Makrolab: A Heterotopia; The Transcultural Imaginary, or Standing with the Natives; La Melancolia de la Jaula; Lovers Fragments: Notes Towards a New Performance Eros

Johannes Birringer is artist director of AlienNation Co., a multimedia collaborative ensemble with has performed around the world. He is the author of Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism and Media & Performance. He teaches at Ohio State University.

"'A book which finally displaces the most compelling issues about identity and culture in the contemporary world from their academic milieu into unusual and often breathtaking artistic enactment. Placing the reader evocatively inside the productions of culturally and geographically diverse performances, Performance on the Edge uniquely restores life, love and creativity to culture theory.' George Marcus, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University"

• Preface; Introduction: Whose Borders?; After the Revolution; Dialogues and Border Crossings; Makrolab: A Heterotopia; The Transcultural Imaginary, or Standing with the Natives; La Melancolia de la Jaula; Lovers Fragments: Notes Towards a New Performance Eros