Inter-national in the largest sense, the books collected in the Studies in International
Performance series display a range of historical, theoretical and critical approaches to the …

Lots has been written about the need for and value of listening in this era of networked
communication and constant feedback loops. But what is listening, really? This paper …

The ideas behind The Contemporary American Monologue originate in my discovering a CD
of the late Spalding Gray performing It'sa Slippery Slope (1997) during my first visit to New …

This article investigates live performance in the broad geo-historical context of the
Anthropocene, a contested term in recent scholarship, but one that offers a breadth of focus …

In the last decade, the field of Disability Arts has been recognised as a powerful source of
aesthetic innovation. Yinka Shonibare has described it as 'the last remaining avant-garde …

In this article I ask: what do we need to relinquish from current ways of doing theatre and
what do we need to restore so that performance can play a productive role in responding to …

This chapter provides an in-depth evaluation of two post-'Fukushima'plays by Okada Toshiki
that take an entirely opposite approach: While Unable to See (2012) is a harsh satire that …

The title of this essay is a reference and pays tribute to the book ReMembering the Body
(edited by Gabriella Brandstetter and Hortensia Volckers), that accompanied the exhibition …

From mid-October to mid-November 2013, Australian performance artist Casey Jenkins sat
for twenty-eight days in a gallery in Darwin, far North Australia, knitting a scarf from a ball of …

This practice-led research explores the visual culture of menstruation from an
interdisciplinary perspective rooted in art practice and autoethnographic reflection. The …