Announcing a major new publication on contemporary performance:
SPILL Festival Of Performance: On Agency
Edited by Robert Pacitti and Sheila Ghelani
Published by Pacitti Company
A year since SPILL 2009 and a year before SPILL 2011 comes a major new book of writing, thinking and conversation on the SPILL Festival of Performance - an artist-led festival of experimental theatre, live art and performance that takes place in London every two years.
"Another timely and important contribution from SPILL."
- Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art Development Agency
Includes the following chapters:
Introduction from Robert Pacitti
The Weaver: An interview with SPILL Thinker in Residence Kira O'Reilly (Robert Pacitti & Sheila Ghelani)
Small Talk - Alex Eisenberg
Moments of Seeing and Being Seen: Vision & Visuality in SPILL 2009 - Mary Paterson
Back at the South Pole Again: Critical Frameworks out of Performance - David Berridge
xxx or Bodies That Matter - Rachel Lois Clapham
Vivid Traces: A Re-appropriation of (Past) Time and Spaces - Mary Kate Connolly
Manifesting Politics - Theron Schmidt
Divine Intervention: Manuel Vason & The SPILL Performance Tarot - Carla Esperanza Tommasini
Artists discussed in the above chapters include: Jan Fabre, Romeo Castellucci, Needcompany, Julia Bardsley, Forced Entertainment, Ron Athey & Lee Adams': Visions of Excess, Gob Squad and Victoria, to name but a few.
Also includes information and images of events from both the SPILL 2007 & 2009 festivals.
Pacitti Company, 2010, 112 pages, paperback, 64 full colour and 63 black and white photographs throughout, 18.5cm x 23.5cm.
Available now for £15 + p&p
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