Torsten Jost is a researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" at Freie Universität Berlin.

Erika Fischer-Lichte is Director of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at Freie Universität Berlin.

Milos Kosic studied creative writing at the City College of New York and English Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Astrid Schenka is a performing arts scholar, dramaturge and translator. She currently works as a research associate at the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at Freie Universität Berlin as well as a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Contributor Bios

Introduction: Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures - Developing Inter-Epistemic Approaches and Methodologies

Torsten Jost

PART I - Concepts, theories and methods

1. The Cognitive Empire: Epistemic Injustices and Resurgent Decolonization

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

2. Principles of Interweaving Epistemologies

Sundar Sarukkai

3. Reconstituting the Destituted: How Decolonial and De-Western Interweaving Works

Walter D. Mignolo

PART II - Analyzing inter-epistemic performances

4. Confronting the Colonial Matrix of Power: Critical Intersections of Interculturality and Decoloniality in Performance Practice

Rustom Bharucha

5. Staging Border Epistemologies: The Cross-Cultural Cartographies of an Artwork (Berlin, Galway, Seoul)

Andrej Mir¿ev

6. Performance as Method: Critical Approaches to Western Episteme

Mägorzata Sugiera

PART III - Exploring inter-epistemic histories

7. Complex Smoking: On Brecht, Tobacco and Bourgeois Philosophy

Nicholas Ridout

8. The Epistemic Politics of Indian Classical Dance

Anurima Banerji

9. Performance or "Comportamento"? Interweaving the Names and Epistemologies of Performance Art in 1970s Italy

Tancredi Gusman

10. Epilogue: Decolonial Aesthetics in Theater and Performance - Theatrical Strategies of Delinking

Rustom Bharucha, Walter Mignolo,Torsten Jost and Christel Weiler

Index