Amelia Jones
Jones, A. (2000) Acting Unnatural: Interpreting Body Art. Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance. S.E. Case, P. Brett, S.L. Foster (eds.) Minneapolis: Indiana University Press, pp. 10-17.
Any kind of cultural product, whether “live” performance or a still object, can be rendered performative (can be made into an act) through the mobilization of particular codes of subjectivity across the spectrum of temporality (identity as process) and the encouragement of interpretive engagements that are explicitly invested and erotically charged… The performative has this capacity of eliciting charged engagements and so of politicizing our comprehension of bodies/ selves (and of culture in general) because it specifically marks body/self as contingent on body/ other and exposes the investments behind every attribution of meaning or identity’ (2000: 13)