OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Performance Research is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Governing Care	9
Complicating Care	6
Resilient Matriarchs	4
Signs of Life – Hearts, Blood and our Breath	3
A Look at the Fasting People	3
La Merda	3
Ibu in Post-authoritarian Agonism	2
T.Mudd	2
Now I am Ready to Die	2
On Touch	2
The Revolutionary Mourner, and the Collective Body: The performativity of grief in the Woman, Life, Freedom movement	2
Re-generative Habit	2
Breathwork in VestAndPage Performance Practice	2
Who is Afraid of Mourning?	2
Recipes for (un)learning to (re)member: Ripples, responses, responsibilities	2
Notes on Contributors	2
Touch (Sk)Interrupted?	2
XX	1
Performing Disidentification and Disrupting Neoliberal Multiculturalism in HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness	1
Choreographic Explorations in the Middle and the Excess	1
The Reactionary Repertoire	1
Reorientations and Reckonings in Response to Wild Weather	1
Intimate Engagements with the Earth Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as lover by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens with Jennie Klein, Minneapolis, MN: Universit	1
Entering / 04	1
Te Mana Motuhake o te Hā: Sovereignty of breath	1

Mapping Polivocality in East Asian Theatrical Realism	1
Games and Playfulness	1
Hunger Action	1
Presence / 02	1
Notes on Contributors	1
Ugly Feelings	1
Through the Lens of Grief: Re-reading performance through pregnancy loss	1
Mourning the Factory	1
Gender Performance on the Stage of Chinese Opera	1
Clods, Compost and the Buoyancy of Clowns	1
A Period Piece that Endures	1
On the Question of the Artistic Transmission of Political Death (II) ¹	1
Correction	1
Bumps, Breakages, Bandages	1
Rich Archival Pickings	1
Ritualized / 08	1
Entering / 03	1
An Archipelago of Aid	1
‘Holding Breath’	1
The In-between Relation of Performers as Foundational Principle for Constructing Alternative Social Imaginaries	1
Participatory Futuring	1
A Radical Imagination	1
The Embodied Archive and the Metaphor of Compost	1
Mapping and Cross-mapping the Hi:story of Performance Art in Switzerland through Collective Research for Deviant Understandings	1
What the heck? – hacking HEK	1
Editorial: On mundane performance	1
Political Paradigms of Hunger	1
Ecological Performance and ‘Settler Creep’	1
Racial Kinaesthesia and Coalition in MovementBlack Dragon: Afro Asian performance and the martial arts imagination by Zachary F. Price, Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2022; pp. 240.	1
Sensation and Sensibility: Ron Athey's archive of feeling	1
Entering / 01	1
Dispossessed Breath	0
Stanislavski versus the Peasant Woman	0
Enduring Touch	0
Dramaturgy of Mundanity, Dramaturgy of Utopia *The City We Make Together: City Council Meeting’s primer for participation* by Mallory Ca	0
Waiting / 02	0
Repertoire Research	0
A Replica of a Replica: Memory, trauma and monumental repair	0
Revealing Interdependence	0
Dancing and Reading across Difference, with love	0
The Queer Archive as Promiscuous Ethics of Care	0
Introduction	0
Twelve (Queer) Labours	0
On Activation	0
Counterpointing Care	0
Keeping up Appearances	0
Resounding Relations	0
Ballet, Biopolitics and the Relevance of History	0
Ritualized / 07	0
Presence / 08	0

Theatre and Solidarity among the Transnational Alevi Community	0
Ritualized / 03	0
wind meeting	0
Presence / 10	0
Injecting the Essayistic into the Curatorial	0
Contracts as Protocols of Governmentality in Performance Art	0
Performing Relations	0
Introduction	0
Care-filled Futures	0
Walk This Way	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Digital Contention in Latin America	0
The Power of the Sad: Performance, bearing with and compassion	0
Invasion, Replacement and Colonial Anxiety in The War of the Worlds	0
What Must Be Re-Imagined	0
Presence / 07	0
Breathing out of the University, and into many Schools	0
The ‘Squishy Science’ of Theatre and the Post-Relativistic Universe	0
To Do, To Act, To Reform	0
On ‘a certain convocation of politic worms’ ( Hamlet )	0
Editorial	0
Suffocating Magic	0
Breathing with Ghosts	0
Reflection: Beyond metaphor	0
The Aesthetics of Invasion	0
Let This Sentence Be Your Guide	0
Ashes to Ashes: Is expression of female violence just too much? Putin’s Ashes by Pussy Riot Performance and short film (2022), www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni_CRPAw_5Q; 3.04	0
Now What?	0
Composing Atmospheres, Engineering Liveness Kinetic Atmospheres: Performance and immersion by Johannes Birringer, London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2022; pp. 300	0
A Star isn’t Born, judy’s Made!	0
Live Art	0
When Melancholia Turns Black	0
Still Resisting Left Melancholy? Chinese New Leftist theatre’s inheritance and resistance in Che Guevara (Qie Gewala) (2000–1)	0
Making and Breaking ‘Bad’ Habits in Drugs, Law and Human Rights Scrutiny	0
Speculative Sites and Slippery Temporalities	0
Uneasy Breathing	0
Towards Becoming an Ecology of Care	0
Reading Rest as Resistance	0
Mette’s Pharmacy	0
On the Ends and Endings of Protest	0
‘I Have the Need to Never Arrive’	0
The Sad Choreography of Systemic Misconduct, from Cause to Affect	0
Silver Halide Crystals and Ionizing Radiation	0
Collaborating Across Borders in Isolating Times; Four Artistic Strategies for International Co-creation, with Examples	0
A Different Hunger	0
Theatre's Computational Turn Theater as Data: Computational journeys into theater research edited by Miguel Escobar Varela. Ann Arbor, Ml: University of Michigan Press,	0
The Limits of Cis Compassion: The sad trans experience and its others in contemporary Turkish theatre	0
Practical Manifesto for a Theatre of Repetition	0
Entering / 02	0
Cultivating ‘ 氣 Qi’ in Connecting the More-Than-Human World	0
rendezvous	0
Artificial Respiration	0
‘It’s Not Because It’s Not There, That It Isn ’t There’: Visibility and invisibility within Black flamenco performance	0
The Minutes of the Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions	0
I am Queen Mary	0
Between Japan and the Global: Marking Okada Toshiki’s innovations Okada Toshiki & Japanese Theatre edited by Peter Eckersall, Barbara Geilhorn, Andreas Regelsberger	0
On Listening in to the Scientific Mundane	0
Embodied Rhetoric	0
Unbounding [sic] Prometheus	0
A Grammar of Care	0
The Deep, Dark Play of the US Capitol Riots	0
Lessons of Decal (Language as Repertoire)	0
Three Acts of Care in Performance and Beyond	0
The Art of Notation Revisited	0
Ritualized / 02	0
The Color of Water	0
Ritualized / 10	0
Presence / 11	0
UNcovering Stories of Displacement and Hope	0
Invasion as Trespassing Spatial Boundaries	0
Banners and Memes	0
Nostalgic Hunger in Zhu Yu’s Eating People	0
Can Stories Save Us?	0
Dual Claire	0
Confronting Coloniality’s Unpayable Debts	0
Drawing Oblivion	0
Repertoire, Relation and Technique	0
Diagramming performances	0
Performing the Politics of Kindness in Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Maintenance and Care / 05	0

Activations of the Threshold	0
Presence / 12	0
Imagining Togetherness Amid Dislocation	0
On the Political Biology of Eating and Performing (with) Food	0
Performative Scores in Pandemic Times¹	0
WE/Time/Trembling/Softly	0
‘Doesn’t Every Dying Person’s Last Breath Touch the Living?’	0
A Listening of the Flesh	0
COVID Relief and the Dynamics of State Care in South Africa’s Performance Economy	0
Feeling(s) without Organs	0
Representing Hunger	0
With Whom Can You Imagine Sharing This World’s Sidewalk?	0
UnCooked Meets	0
Just One Big Green Ball	0
Body-worn Technology, Heightened Awareness and Habit	0
The Voice of the Air	0
Why Do I Keep Crying?	0
The Remnant of My Volition (Force Majeure)	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Thorax	0
Black Lung	0
Phrenos – The Bank of Breath	0
Voice is Vision	0
Maintenance and Care /06	0
Inscribing Bodily Narratives	0
Negation as Condition of Possibility for Imagining Anew	0
Potential Singularity and Transformative Instability	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Towards a Rattling of the Everyday	0
Invading Capitalist Ageism in Applied Theatre through Anti-Ageism Praxis	0
Page, Stage and Expanding Iberian Performance	0
Self-Starvation	0
On the ‘Doing’ of ‘Something’	0
Embodying Utopia	0
Looking Back and Facing Forward: How to learn from pandemic theatre	0
Meet – An intimate performative encounter format	0
Somewhere Between Breathing In and Breathing Out	0
Limit(less)	0
Drawing Our Breath in Pain to Tell Hamlet’s Story	0
Care Aesthetics, Coronavirus and Everyday Life	0
COVID-19 Protests and the Performative Force of Untruth	0
The Political Theatre of Dirty Hands in the UK Government Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Collaboration and Co-finitude	0
To Photograph Without Taking Any Pictures — Notes on the act of photographing	0
Emotional Weather Reports: Online performance as affective practice in the MonoVlogs of Layeta Bucoy and Olivia Kristine Nieto	0
And So …	0
Ritualized / 01	0
After the Ordinary	0
Repertoire and Pedagogical Transmission of Asian ‘Traditional Forms’ at the Intercultural Theatre Institute of Singapore	0
‘Who Cleans the Blood of the City?’	0
Presence / 09	0
Performative Scores for More-Than-Human Swamp Becomings	0
Becoming Anorexia	0
Being and Pub	0
Presence / 09	0
Walking (to) Greenham, Again	0
Habits of Belonging in and through Boxing	0
Notes on Contributors	0
The Politics of Urban Silence	0
(M)Othering Like Us	0
Remembering Differently	0
‘Do We Need to Talk about Prince Harry?’	0
Gezi’s Many Women in Red: A genealogy of an icon from street to stage	0
Towards a Non-Anthropocentric ¹ Social Imaginary	0
Transmuting Trauma and ‘Alchemiz[ing] Inherited Wounds’: iele paloumpis’s disabled, diasporic choreographies of care	0
Come to the Table	0
In Remembrance	0
Stranger than Kindness	0
Hamlet ’s ‘Dying’ Breaths and the Ars Memoria and Moriendi	0
Hooding a Hawk: Searching beyond the citta	0
Sonic Touch	0
Queer, Brown Dancing Bodies in a White Cube: Refusal and mourning in Gerald Casel’s Not About Race Dance	0
Embodied Histories of Gender and Generation in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland	0
A Manifesto for Care with regards to Labour	0
Body as a Proletarian	0
History Put in Touch with Itself	0
Unintentional Poetics of Deleuze's Diagram between Mapping and Tracing	0
Inside Out: Praxis as autoethnographic research An Empty Room: Imagining butoh and the social body in crisis by Michael Sakamoto, Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Pres	0
Careful Lessons From For You’s Artists & Elders	0
Being on Time	0
Materializing Habit to Make Visible	0
We Will Outlive the Blood You Bleed	0
Activation in the Moment of Pausing or Slowing	0
Assemblies under Pressure from Catastrophe *Back Stages: Essays across art, performance, and public life* by Shannon JacksonEvanston, IL	0
I Was Thinking	0
Towards an Ecodramaturgical Human	0
Wearing a Second Skin of Sounds: Touching the other through sounding and listening	0
Performing Processions: Premonitions and palimpsests	0
A Puzzle of Diagrams (Incorrect Collective Noun/Incomplete Collection)	0
Performing Waria/Performing Care	0
Beginning with Love	0
An Act of Becoming: Dance, doing dancing, dancing bodies	0
‘Signature Act’	0
Performance, Unknown Otherwise Surface Relations: Queer forms of Asian American inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022; pp. 227	0
Witnessing the Mundane	0