"The World as a Stage"/"A Theatre Without Theatre"

"The World as a Stage"

TATE MODERN, LONDON

"A Theatre Without Theatre"

BERARDO COLLECTION, LISBON

ONE WOULD THINK I'd have been ready. Performance has become such a catchword in contemporary art circles, as artists and critics alike seek to characterize the current shifts in production toward acting out or interacting with audiences-frequently in order to intersect artistic practice with political agency and redefinitions of protestthat I ought to have entered Tate Modern's "The World as a Stage" with ears prickling and eyeballs peeled. Yet here we were: The museum attendant, handing me the exhibition pamphlet, looked me straight in the eye and said, "Saturday …