This second collection of hand-picked articles from Contemporary Theatre Review‘s archives celebrates the journal’s 25^th anniversary year.  These articles will be freely available for the next six months, until June 2016.

This issue of Interventions focuses on the relationship between ‘practice’ and ‘research’, offering four different case studies in which these concepts are configured in quite different ways.

In this cross-disciplinary forum, the research project and interactive performance World Factory, directed by Zoë Svendsen, is discussed from multiple perspectives ranging from social geography to marketing.

Brian Lobel and Hannah Maxwell assess The Sick of the Fringe, a Wellcome Trust-funded programme of talks and events exploring the relationship between medicine and the arts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

In ‘Infecting Archives’, Johanna Linsley talks with Martin O’Brien about his collaboration with Sheree Rose and their work with the Bob Flanagan archive at the ONE Lesbian and Gay Archive.

Following ‘duet residencies’ with Chris Goode and Lucy Cash, performance-maker Karen Christopher reflects on how the artistic residency might remain open to collaboration, surprise, and even mayhem.

This issue of Interventions is focused on activism and performance and accompanies the print journal’s special issue ‘Theatre, performance and activism: gestures towards an equitable world’.

Jenny Hughes and Simon Parry reflect on a collectively authored blogging project on activist performance, in which ‘domestic gestures’ emerged as one of its core themes.

In this interview Shane Boyle and Larry Bogad reflect on the relationship between performance and protest through a critical exploration of the ‘irresistible image’.

Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A and Robert Leach contribute to a reflection and celebration of Irish writer and performer Margaretta D’Arcy’s ongoing activism.

‘How do we imagine something other than what there is?’ This short film is an edited version of an interview with the vacuum cleaner, an ‘art activist collective of one’.

This issue of Interventions looks ahead to the UK General Election on 7 May 2015 and accompanies a newly published Special Edition of the print journal on ‘Electoral Theatre’.

In this ‘parallel interview’, Jonathan Petherbridge from London Bubble and Tom Bowtell from Coney reflect on electoral democracy and acts of voting as core themes in their recent work.

Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager compile a ‘lexicon’ on acts of voting, presenting contributions from 26 scholars who explore the ambitions, achievements and economies of voting in Europe.

A short film by Laura Bissell and David Overend on theatre, performance, and the Scottish Referendum, featuring interviews with Christine Hamilton and Scottish theatre-makers.

The topics of demography and representation are foregrounded in Daniel Koczy’s interview with Rimini Protokoll, which focuses on the challenges of staging populations in their 100% City project.

These online Interventions offer a variety of perspectives that complement the journal’s latest special issue on the politics, processes and practices of editing.

Various participants reflect on a recent ‘edit-a-thon’ that sought to redress the invisibility of feminist Live Art practices within Wikipedia.

This forum, curated by Charlotte Bell, offers five different views from postgraduates and early-career researchers on the shifting landscape of academic publishing.

NOTA, a collection of unedited responses produced and ‘archived’ in real-time, collapses the distance between performance and critical response.