Canada’s longest-running new works festival is a hotbed of experimentation, where artists explore new possibilities in theatre, dance, music, and performance art.
In 2021, Rhubarb proposes an alternative: the creation of a physical performative publication that attempts to capture the energy of Rhubarb and, perhaps, recreate the live performance experience itself.
Over 20 artists respond to the prompt to bring performances to the page, with some projects published in the festival publication itself, and other interventions performed on the book after printing. Contributions range from colouring pages to a fever-dream drag performance; from a meal to music inspired by the turning of a page; and from choreographic scores to unearthed histories, real or imagined.
Edition 791/888
Issue No 9 of Substanz featuring work from Performance Oper-Air St.Gallen 2018.
Text in German and English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Artists from the Tempting Failure 2018 festival, photographed on an instant camera in the moments after their performance.
Brochure for the Live Art programme at the Liverpool Biennial 2002 (18-21 September).
On the Future of Imagination (FOI) Festival 9, Singapore, September 4–7, 2014.
Report about the Arts and Humanities Resarch Council funded prject.
A study of post-millennial solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Publication celebrating the 20th anniversary of the festival of emerging practices. In French.
Calendar charting the 2018 festival, 16-25 November 2018.
Programme, new territories 09: International Festival of Live Art, Scotland, 11/2 – 21/3 2009.
On the Edge 88 festival in September 1988.
In misc. folder 7.
Programme for the Afrikaans language festival that forges creative connections with English and Sotho cultures; 18-22 July 2017.
Brings together commissioned pieces by 50 artists and theorists whose works have shaped steirischer herbs over the past decade.
Brings together artists, curators and producers, writers and critics to think through their relationship with criticism, revealing passionately held and often conflicting opinions on what criticism is and where it resides. Follows Steakhouse: Live Writing, a pilot project undertaken as part of the 2016 Steakhouse Live Festival of Live Art and Performance.
On Multimediales, at ZKM, Germany.
Turning World season at The Place.
An assessment of experimental work in the early years of Dance Umbrella (1978-1983).
On the 10th International Mime Festival.
Publication 'arrived' after participation in a six-day festival curated by ]performance S p a c e[ in 2016.
The 2016’s season centres on the theme of Potentialities – the potential to develop in the future and transform society.
11 August – 17 September 2016.
Conference proceedings from the International Performance Art Event in Singapore 2008.
Part of the Something Human Study Room Guide on Southeast Asian performance (P3334).
Festival catalogue.
On hard drive with digitalised publications (P3406); in glass cabinet.
Part of the Something Human Study Room Guide on Southeast Asian performance (P3334).
Article in publication.
Part of the Something Human Study Room Guide on Southeast Asian performance (P3334).
Publication for the 2011 Bucheon International Performance Art Festival with artist statements and documentation.
Part of the Something Human Study Room Guide on Southeast Asian performance (P3334).
Publication for the first international performance art festival in China in 2000 with documentation and artist profiles.
Part of the Something Human Study Room Guide on Southeast Asian performance (P3334).
10 practitioners from different backgrounds reflect on the broad themes of participation, audience, criticality and writing in a series of short essays and provocations inspired by their own practice and numerous works in Compass Festival 2014.
Reflects, through a celebratory and playful lens, on the seminal moments of contemporary international performance that have visited the city from the late 1980s until 2016, a year from when the Arches closed.
Review of the Foreign Affairs festival, Berlin.
Two reviews of IMBT 15.
Three reviews on IBT 13.
Review from New Wave – a biennial project comissioning and developing work by young artists.
A publication detailing the projects delivered through Unlimited; includes a collection of 16 postcards.
Platform of performance art, Liege, 19-24/10 2015.
In French and English.
Includes the programme for City of Women festival (2-13/10/2013) and Red Dawns (12-26/10/2013).
In Slovene and English.
Festival book; unlike a programme, it sets out in search of a different kind of closeness – and finds it through contributions written by programmed artists, artist portraits, theoretical comments dealing with this year's leitmotif, “Wir schaffen das”, essays, reports or series of pictures.
Festival dates: 23 September – 16 October 2015.
In English and German.
Early bird talk by Lois Keidan. 30th edition of the NRLA 30th edition (2010).
Two files, combined length 1h25.
Andy Field, Deborah Pearson and Ira Brand began Forest Fringe as a totally independent, not-for-profit space in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Since then they have built a community of artists and playwrights, and are consistently rated as being a festival highlight. This collection collates the best of their work from the past decade.
A set of playful ways to think about moving through cities. Part of Feet First, Winchester City Council’s campaign to promote walking as the norm for short journeys, or as part of a longer journey.
An extract of an action performed in Peru as part of CAUTION in July 2011.
0:49
Festival book; it sets out in search of a different kind of closeness – and finds it through contributions written by programmed artists, artist portraits, theoretical comments dealing with the festival’s leitmotif, “Back to the Future”, essays, reports or series of pictures.
Festival dates: 25 September – 18 October 2015.
Part game, part improvisation, this unique 24-hour live experience pits alternating pairs of performers against one another as they test their opponents with an avalanche of questions.
Recording on a hard drive.
Recorded 12-13 April 2013 at the Barbican; part of SPILL.
In a safe box.
An edited collection of work made between 15th and 25th September 2010 for b-side festival. Drawings by Joff Winterhart ; text and design by Sue Palmer. Includes a CD with the song composed by the piece.
The 2015 festival entitled 'Back to the Future', took a hard look both back and forward and examined the idea of 'inheritance'. The DVD is in an invitation to look another look back – at the panoply of contemporary art work.
25/9 – 18/10 2015
Documentation from the LAUK Gathering, at Watershed, Bristol on 12 February 2015. The Gathering considered the idea of the Storm as a metaphor for change.
Mostra OSSO Latino Americana de Performances festival programme, 2013. Includes an introduction by Dani Felix. In Spanish and Portuguese.
Belgian festival director and curator Frie Leysen challenges Australian artists and arts organisations to be bold, and to challenge an increasingly ossified status quo in her closing keynote address at the 2015 Australian Theatre Forum (ATF). Miscellaneous folder #5A.
Review of Proximity Festival 2014, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, 22 Oct-2 Nov.
Catalogue for the festival exploring the physical, mental and social challenges of life and death and how we survive them (or not), in venues across Brighton & Hove, Manchester and Salford, 2-25 march 2015. Includes performances synopsis, commissioned essays, debates, literarure, films programme and information.