British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. Alienating The Archive dramatises the archive through a Brechtian “making strange” of the material relations to documents and the systems of preservation.

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. This project examines the ‘potentials’ of fat bodies in terms of the cultural and medical discourses that surround and speak of, for, and over them. The audience is invited to take a journey with three fat activists through a number of imagined ‘fat futures’ – both dystopian and utopian, that take the current Obesity Epidemic to its extremes.

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. Civic Zones is an act of collective mapping manifested in multiple forms: a cartographic archive of sites of potentiality, future actions and disjointed civic spaces. Drawing on a dialogue and experience of the current struggles in Greece, Gigi Argyropoulou and Hypatia Vourloumis explore how civic spaces are constituted and examine notions of disobedience, occupancy and public space through a series of collective contexts.

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. Representatives of the three venues of the event – ]performance space[, The Yard Theatre, The White Building – and the Live Art Development Agency gather with questions and reflection for an informal public conversation about the potentials of Hackney Wick in the aftermath of the Olympics and towards new and changing futures.

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012).

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. Talking Tabloid Trans appears as a series of prints and performed dialogue, which takes the form of a Sunday Magazine show paper review, will consider the tabloids and mass media items that posit being trans as negative, trashy, spectacular and scandalous, asking the questions: can we locate a queer project that looks to expose the normative and regulative structures which operate in mainstream media? How might we contemplate the ways in which trans in the tabloids, forms and contributes to pro-outsiderness and subcultural collectives?

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. Tero Nahua has been working in the post-industrial city of Bytom, Poland for short periods since the beginning of 2012. This performance/dialogue is a reflection of the artist’s projections and desires in relation to this work – how life becomes interpreted and structured.

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. Talking with Strangers is an installation of a series of object-responses to the question ‘What is violence?’ and an invitation to the audience to engage in conversation with the work, its questions and potentialities.

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. Jungmin Song’s dialogue explores the spectacles of the death of power and repressed mourning through performative tales of the Two Koreas.

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. Oriana Fox’s The O Show explores the relationship between the therapeutic process and performance, debating the ways in which different forms of psychotherapy ‘perform’ and discussing how actions, acting and creativity are key to catharsis and healing.