Performance and Civic Engagement

Ananda Breed is Reader in Performing Arts at the University of East London, UK. She is author of Performing the Nation: Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation (2014) in addition to several publications that address transitional systems of governance and the arts. She has worked as a consultant for IREX and UNICEF in Indonesia and Central Asia on issues concerning conflict negotiation and conducted applied arts workshops internationally. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Performing Arts Development (CPAD) at UEL and former Research Fellow at the International Research Centre Interweaving Performance Cultures at Freie University (2013-2014). Tim Prentki is Professor of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester, UK. He is the author of The Fool in European Theatre and Applied Theatre Development, co-author of Popular Theatre in Political Culture and co-editor of The Applied Theatre Reader. He also writes regularly for Research in Drama Education and Applied Theatre Research.

General Introduction; Ananda Breed & Tim Prentki.- Introduction to Politicising Communities; Ananda Breed & Tim Prentki.- A Dog's Obeyed in Office; Tim Prentki.- Performing Difference: Diversity, representation and the nation; Dominic Hingorani.- At Home and Abroad: The Study Room in Exile; Gary Anderson & Lena Simic.- Interview with Roland Muldoon.- Introduction to Applying Digital Agency; Ananda Breed & Tim Prentki.- Nowhere without you; Misha Myers.- Sounding out the City; Hannah Nicklin.- The Dead are Coming: Political Performance Art, Activist Remembrance and Dig(ital) Protests; Samuel Merrill.- Internet, Theatre and the Public Voice; Christina Papagiannouli.- Interview with Christian Cherene.- Introduction to Performing Landscapes; Ananda Breed & Tim Prentki.- Performance, Place and Culture for Civic Engagement in Kyrgyzstan; Ananda Breed.- 'Mr President, open the door please, I want to be free': participatory walking as aesthetic strategy for transforming a hostage space; Luis Sotelo.- Artistic Diplomacy: On civic engagement and transnational theatre; Jonas Tinius.- Interview with Nurlan Asanbekov.