This issue of Performance Research examines coalitions – artistic, political, institutional – and the performances that make them possible. Originally proffered by radical feminists of colour as an alternative to white feminism’s sisterhood, 'coalition' represents a fraught, power-laden process assuming incommensurability. How do we account for differences in collaborative pursuits without deploying a totalizing 'we'? Contributions explore contemporary manifestations of coalitional dramaturgies across micro and macro cosmoses: from institution-building models to leaderless artistic practices, from collaborative methodologies to entangled notions of history, ethics, pedagogy, curation and coalescence.

This issue proposes a focus on land/scapes as urgent and productive for discussing, analysing and making performance today. Land/scapes are considered as an active element and as a focal point for understanding emergent practices at the intersection of politics, ecology and performance. To think with/On Land/scapes is to challenge the hierarchies of a linear understanding and the validity of an external point of view. Being in and on land/scapes involves both challenging entrenched modes of domination and instituting modes of doing and thinking that recognize dependencies. By emphasizing dense interconnections, entanglements and interdependencies in land/scapes, this issue explores ways of knowing and studying in and with the body and in relation to shaping and being shaped by the land/scapes we inhabit.