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Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective
Constellating performance archives
Taking as its starting point the first-ever retrospective exhibition (2021) of performance art icon Jess Dobkin the book reflects on the internationally acclaimed artist’s playful and provocative practice as performer activist curator and community leader. At the same time it grapples with a question that is vital for art and performance studies: How do archives perform?
More than a discrete showing of a single artist’s work the exhibition including its new staging in book form is a large-scale research experiment in performance curation investigating what it might mean for art institutions to take seriously the embodied and communal nature of performance art in their practices of archiving and museological display.
In Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective a cast of renowned international performance theorists and artists dive into this exploration alongside Dobkin curator Emelie Chhangur and performance theorist and dramaturg Laura Levin. These contributions appear alongside a riot of full colour photographs providing access to Dobkin’s celebrated artistic productions from the last 30 years.

Journalism, Society and Politics in the Digital Media Era
Advances in digital communication have affected the relationship between society journalism and politics within different contexts in varied ways and intensities. This volume combining interdisciplinary academic and professional perspectives assesses the impact of the digital media environment on citizens journalists and politicians in diverse sociopolitical landscapes. The first part evaluates the transformative power of media literacy in the digital age and the challenges that journalism pedagogy encounters in global and fragmented environments. The second part critically examines the methods in which social media is used by politicians and activists to communicate during political campaigns and social protests. The third part analyses the impact of digitalization on professional journalism and news consumption strategies. The fourth part offers a range of case studies that illustrate the significant challenges facing online media regarding the framing and representation of communities in crisis and shifting contexts. The book is intended to introduce readers to the crucial dynamic and diverse challenges that affect our societies and communitive practices as a result of the interplay between digital media and political and societal structures.

Joshua Sofaer
Performance | Objects | Participation
Joshua Sofaer works across boundaries borders and disciplines to create artworks that engage with all levels of society. In cultural institutions or on the street for art galleries or personal homes staged as operas or cast as golden sculptures Sofaer’s work weaves with and through social fabric to consider the ideas that hold us together.
Co-published with the Live Art Development Agency this lavishly illustrated volume is the first in-depth study of the artist’s work featuring discussions with producers and participants documentary images and a new photographic essay interviews with the artist himself and thirteen commissioned essays by scholars curators and artists from the perspectives of performance studies archaeology and opera criticism. With a mixture of intellect humour and striking design Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation analyses the artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness visual art and participatory practices. It explores the binding aesthetics of his approach as a model for contemporary practice and it considers the impact of his work on audiences institutions and pedagogy as well as on fine art and performance ecologies as a whole.

Justitia
Multidisciplinary Readings of the Work of the Jasmin Vardimon Company

Journalism Re-examined
Digital Challenges and Professional Orientations (Lessons from Northern Europe)

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and other plays
'Svich is one of the finest poet/playwrights of this generation. . . . She is a playwright whose plays perform like dramatic poems that are wondrous to the ear and moving to the heart.' – Seth Gordon Repertory Theatre of St. Louis

A Journey of Art and Conflict
Weaving Indra's Net
A Journey of Art and Conflict is a deeply personal exploration of David Oddie’s attempts to uncover the potential of the arts as a resource for reconciliation in the wake of conflict and for the creative transformation of conflict itself. It began when Oddie seeing the fractured world around him asked himself what he could do to help; that question set him off on travels around the world including to Palestine Kosovo South Africa India Northern Ireland Brazil and other places. In each location he met with local people who had suffered from conflict and worked with them to forge artistic networks that have the potential to transform their situation.

Journey
The Gateway Theatre Building and Company, 1884-1965
The Gateway Theatre Company between 1953 and 1965 was a major force in developing modern Scottish theatre moving in 1965 to become the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company. The Gateway Theatre and its company were therefore highly influential in the development of theatre in Scotland. They encouraged new writing and young performers to establish a vibrant contemporary tradition of Scottish theatre in a manner complementary to and at times more important than that of its sister theatre the Citizens in Glasgow. Both theatre building and company are regarded with enormous affection and respect. This book provides authoritative brief histories of the building and the company incorporating much original research an essay on the links between the theatre and the Church of Scotland (its landlord post second world war) and appreciations of two leading figures in the operation of the theatre and the company. These are Sadie Aitken 'the Caledonian Lilian Bayliss' (a theatrical legend) and Robert Kemp (playwright and a key figure in post war theatre).
