„I Do. Some considerations on performativity and agency“, In: It takes place when it doesn´t. On dance and performance since 1989, hg. Martina Hochmuth, Krassimira Kruschkova, Georg Schöllhammer, Frankfurt / Main: Revolver 2006, S. 93-99.
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English Essay on the contradictions between "performance" as action and profession and the discursive and social fashion of seeing "performativity" everywhere: If everything is always as a matter of potentiality prone to "perform" professional performers have no function.
The conflict between the single item of "a performance" and the general climate of "performativity" is further explored with 2 "speech acts" (according to John Austin): The formula "I do" spoken at weddings as a readiness to do without doing anything in particular, and the line in the song, as sung in the movie based on the Rocky Opera "Tommy" by "The Who": "I am free". This paradigmatic speech act of autistic son turned messiah appears as its own parody by now. But can still by the power of its own historical contingency proof the superiority of the single act, performance, speech over the "performativity" of over-complex impersonal systems.
