My research is a part of both the performative and geopolitical turn in theatre and performance studies in the 1980s, as theatre scholars began to go beyond literary approach to drama and took a closer look at the performative dimension of theatre, especially by expanding its models from other theatre forms outside the Northern Hemisphere. Along with several other key notions such as event, liveness, ephemerality, realness and representation, researches on the performativity of bodies and corporeality have been central to the methodological development and geopolitical imagination of theatre and performance studies, specifically in relation to the thinking around performance as a mode of knowledge production and transmission. Simultaneously,