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Lisa Gaupp (2020)In:   Victoria Durrer &#38;  Raphaela Henze (eds.)Managing Culture. Exchange in a  Global World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 127-153.  Excerpts. “This  chapter analyses how sociocultural diversity is standardized through  conventions in the performing arts. It examines how sociocultural  diversity is curated at renowned international performing  arts festivals. [… But most often in an art world conventions only  change very slowly (Gaupp &#38; Kirchberg, 2017). Following a French  strand of sociology, conventions are not understood as fixed standards  or traditions but rather serve as a socioculturally based  logic of action that enables the participants to coordinate themselves  actively in situations characterised by conditions of uncertainty in  order to realize a common intention. Conventions serve participants in  situations as a collective interpretative frame  for the evaluation of appropriateness and the value of actions,  persons, objects and conditions. […] If an innovation does not refer to  any standards within this art world—no matter if this reference involves  conforming to or breaking the rules—it is highly  unlikely to be included into a festival programme. Perhaps even more  urgent is the question of what happens to critical or subversive art  forms when they become an ‘innovation’ in the art world they were once  opposed to (Boltanski &#38; Chiapello, 2007).”p. 127/137/147 Link to the book