photo by CJ MitchellKaren Christopher: The duet residencies

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.

Interventions 25.3 (July 2015)

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’.

Paul Harfleet, The Pansy Project, "Unreported Attacks", Copthorne Hotel, The Quays, NewcastleDomestic Gestures

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.

Protest at Howard University, USA, 13 August 2014. Available at http://twitter.com/stillmarc20/status/499726455434391552Irresistible Images

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