The Centre for Collaborative Performance Research (CCPR) is a non-hierarchical and multi-centric Performance Studies research initiative that, in philosophy and practice, embraces the concepts of co-work and collaboration. Realising the fun and fruitfulness of entangled and cooperative thinking, CCPR operates in a lab-based model where ideas can be tried and tested against and among cohorts of peers.

Founded by performance studies scholars originating from four different continents, CCPR is always open to political, cultural, societal, philosophical, or artistic topics that are situated in local regions and are connected to the immediate present. CCPR aims to create a more sustainable model of academic labor that initiates and also maintains connections across researchers, writers, thinkers, and artists. To remodel and revamp previous models of dialogue in academia, such as annual conferences and sporadic symposia, which focus on a singular and finite outcome, we emphasise the processes, deviations, alterations, distractions, and unending ends.