The room's need of a name - a philosophical study of performance

The Room's Need of a Name is a dissertation about contriving interpretive perspectives suitable for contemporary performances.

In the past two decades, performance studies has incorporated various theoretical discourses and thus become a cross-disciplinary field of ideas pertaining to diverse cultural events. However, the combination and application of the adapted theories are often problematic since the theories as such are seldom examined. Ola Johansson have therefore focused on a crucial theoretical issue, namely the functions and referentiality of language.