On Editing will be Volume 7, Issue 1 of Performance Research and will be jointly edited by Claire MacDonald and guest editor William Sherman.
Editors play a crucial role in the creation and transmission of performances and their texts.
Traditionally, the methods of editing and the assumptions that lie behind them have tended to be invisible. New technologies have made possible new kinds of editing and exposed both the strengths and weaknesses of print. We would therefore encourage contributions from artists and critics that address the role of editing within the artistic process. We see potential in this issue for conversations between textual studies and performance studies, for reassessments of new technologies and the legacy of print culture, and for new perspectives on the changing economics and politics of publishing in the field of performance. We are particularly interested in proposals for visual and textual work that makes use of the resources of the page, and in work that may use several versions of a text.