Performance studies have been growing as an academic field since the 1960s. Performance studies believe in the social act of Doing as it takes performance itself as the object of inquiry. The process of defining it becomes a practice in performance studies itself. How is it being inscribed? What does it mean or do to engage in this process of creating a wiki entry? Does it impose an ideology, an abjection frame of assumption or logic? What does it perform? How is it per-formative? Perhaps once we have defined it, we have already pinned it down? Performance studies is interdisciplinary: "The primary fundamental of performance studies is that there is no fixed canon of works, ideas, practices or anything else that defines or limits the field."

Performance Studies has been challenged as an emerging discipline. Many academics have been critical of its instability. As an academic field it is difficult to pin down; either that is the nature of the field itself or it is still too young to tell. There are, however, numerous degree granting programs that train researchers being offered by universities. Some have referred to it as an "inter discipline" or a "post discipline." "