 The development of performance studies at the university and its impact on the institutionalization of performative art practices 
Since the last decades of the twentieth century, we have witnessed the development of performance studies at the university and the institutionalization of performative art practices in the art worlds. What are the correlations between these two almost concomitant phenomena ? Through a comparative analysis based on empirical data drawn from observations of two institutions, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and Performa, this article traces the formation of two networks that developed simultaneously in the same territory, in cooperation with two faculties of New York University. Despite these commonalities, we are dealing with relatively sealed worlds. Disciplinary, epistemological, and economic issues, as well as different ways of understanding art within the university, are some of the answers.