Traditionally, performance has been hosted, framed, and legitimised by institutions – theaters, galleries, academies, museums. But institutions themselves perform: they enact roles, follow scripts, reproduce norms, and produce effects. They are performative. The focus of the seminar – multi-voiced dialogue featuring Jonas Tinius, Justin Randolph Thompson, and Anna Chiara Cimoli – moves from artists performing within institutions to critically reflecting institutions as performers themselves.Departing from concrete practices, a series of questions will be addressed: In what ways does the production of performance transform institutions? What forms of knowledge or practice, if any, do they genuinely absorb or extract from performance, and how might these inform their day-to-day operations? What is it actually that we mean when we talk about performance? What is the difference between performance and performativity?