A tribute to Tadeusz Kantor.
Zamek Wyobrazni / Castle of Imagination festival programme 1- 3 June 1995.
Drawings, designs and sketches for Kantor's performance 'Let the Artists Die'.
Catalogue on the Polish director / scenographer.
In German and English.
The first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski’s long and multi-faceted career.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance art in the region developed concurrently with the genre in the West, highlighting the unique contributions of Eastern European artists.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Documentation from the fourth edition of the performance art festival, held in Herdla, Norway. The artists gathered for a week having the opportunity to work within the environment of the site, before presenting their work on 30th August 2014.
In Norwegian and English.
An overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s.
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.
Europe and the Middle East
uman rights and ethics