Gill Perry, Gender, Performance and Play: An Introduction Professor Gill Perry reviews some of the issues for the day, exploring the relationship between gender, performativity and play. This programme maps out the wide range of practices and theories associated with the labels 'performance', 'performance art' and 'performativity', providing a toolkit with which to explore some of the practices involved. Drawing briefly on the work of Gilbert and George, the programme addresses ideas of gender identity as 'performed' rather than innate, looking closely at a range of recent practices in which the artist's body is the primary subject of representation - whether in photography, paint or live performance.Further ReadingGavin Butt, After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance, Blackwells Publishing, 2005Amelia Jones, Body Art: Performing the Subject, University of Minnesota Press, 1998Kristine Stiles, 'I/Eye/Oculus:performance, installation and video', chapter 5 of G.Perry and P.Wood eds. Themes in Contemporary Art, Yale University Press, 2004P. Phelan, Unmarked: The Politics of Performance, Routledge, 1993