In his essay "Vito Acconi and the politics of the body in postmodern performance," Philip Auslander discusses Acconi`s performance and body work in relation to modern and postmodern performance theory. While modern performance theory and most of contemporary performance theory claim there is an essential body and fail to see the body as ideologically produced, he suggests that the body in some postmodern performance can be understood as a body that exposes the ideological discourses producing it, through performance that insists on the body´s status as a historical and cultural construct and that asserts the body`s materiality.