Introduction - Aaron WRIGHT

Performance and the Institution

Performance and the Reconstruction of the Ephemeral - Christiane BOUGER

Visual Art Performance vs. Contemporary Performance - Andy HORWITZ

Unhappy days in the art world? De-skilling Theater, Re-skilling Performance - Claire BISHOP

Performance Art and The Law - Henry LYDIATE, Daniel McCLEAN

Pioneers of the Downtown Scene - Daniel B. YATES

How the 60s New York arts scene revolutionised dance - Judith MACKRELL

Manchester International Festival - Natasha DEGEN

Interview: Marina Abramović - Sean O'HAGAN

Marina Abramović and the MOCA Gala (links) - Carrie MCILWAIN, Claudia LA ROCCO

The Presence of Performance in Pop Culture and New Media

The Artist is Present - Hari KUNZRU

John Maus: Heaven - Oliver BASCIANO

E Hate Death: Performance after Genesis P-Orridge - Dominic JOHNSON

Yoko Ono to Lady Gaga - Alexis PETRIDIS

Beyoncé v De Keersmaeker: Can you copyright a dance move? (link) - Luke JENNINGS

Francophrenia - Dana GOODYEAR

Did YouTube Kill Performance Art? (link) - James WESTCOTT, Clifford OWENS, Paul LEVINSON, Liz KOTZ

Auto Italia Live - Catherine SPENCER

Through the Looking Glass. The Experience of Exchange Radical Moments! from Afar - Steven L. BRIDGES

Purge - Brian LOBEL

#dawnchorus

Art, Live & Videotape - Áine PHILLIPS

a lover's discourse - Malcolm WHITTAKER

Is the Artist Present? - Manick GOVINDA

Performance, Activism and Public Protest

Camp DAG (Aspire to Inspire) - Emma GELIOT

No Pussyfooting - Marcia FARQUHAR

Reflections on Access All Areas - Mary PATERSON

Culture, the 2012 Whitewash - criticalnetwork

Shooting Outlaws without Hurting Anyone - Emily JAMES

Press Release for Human Cost performance - Liberate Tate

Tate should end its relationship with BP - Liberate Tate

How John Browne, BP and the Old Boys Network keep the arts well-oiled - Jane TROWELL

On refusing to pretend to do politics in a museum - John JORDAN

Russia's Art War: An Interview with Voina (link) - Henry LANGSTON

Taste, Trash and Outrageousness

Trashing Performance - Diana DAMIAN

Scottee - Ben WALTERS

Transfixed by Rose Wood - Joe E. JEFFREYS

This Better Be Decent: Interview with Ann Liv Young - Stephen SQUIBB

Lineages of Trash - Owen PARRY

Golden Girl - Aaron WRIGHT

Review: My Stories, Your emails, Barbican Pit Theatre - Matt TRUEMAN

Why is it only for men? - Tania EL KHOURY

!W.A.R. - Kristin M. JONES

On Stage/Off Stage: Performance and the theatrical

The Quiet Volume, Hackney Central Library - Matt TRUEMAN

The Necessity of Narrative? - Deborah PEARSON

You Me Bum Bum Train - Andrew HAYDON

The Thrill of It All, Riverside Studios - Matt TRUEMAN

Interview: SHOW TiME - Diana DAMIAN

Shifting Traces Choreographed: Opiyo Okach, Nelisiwe Xaba, Gregory Maqoma - Esther BAKER-TARPAGA

Live Art Speed Date Review - Lois JEARY

Ontroerend Goed: are you sitting uncomfortably? - Maddy COSTA

Reactor Assemblages - Stuart TAIT, Jonathan WARING

(Gob Squad's) Revolution Now! Or Never - Brandon WOOLF

Festival, Scenes and Strategies: From the Local to the Global

Some Reflections on the Performance Work of Rabih Mroué - Ruth HOLDSWORTH

Forbidden Body - Notes on the Latin American live art scene - Guillermo GOMEZ-PENA, Gabriela SALGADO

Beyond Necessity - Victoria GRAY

Deflect away: On some performance in Aotearoa/New Zealand Excerpts of opinions from a Pakeha performance maker's work diary - Mark HARVEY

Opportunities in Crisis - Cat HARRISON

Who Needs Live Art. An ongoing rant - Barry LAING

Flare Festival 'The Future of Theatre' Panel Speech - Matt FENTON

How can art flourish? (A provocation) - Andy FIELD

How to 'make it' in the art world - Guillermo GOMEZ-PENA

Anti Festival: Out There Somewhere Walking Still - Helen COLE

Together in the here & now - Theron SCHMIDT

Performing Bodies / Thinking Bodies - Pushpamala N.

A Dialogue on Infection - Mary PATERSON, Theron SCHMIDT

And the rest: Obituaries, lectures and miscellaneous writings

Live Lab Symposium, Plymouth (January 2010) - Roberta MOCK

Sabah Mustafa Ahmad / Ahmed al-Fahel / Ahmed Subhi al-Fahal / Ahmad Subhi al-Fahl / Waddah Saadi Saleh al-Obeidi / Brothers of dead man / Daughter of dead couple...and counting: Failure and Loss in Wafaa Bilal's Body Modification Work - Barrak ALZAID

Concepts are Mental Images: The Work as Ruin - Marta JECU

Compassos do Ocaso: An Experiential Re-telling - Sara PANAMBY ROSA DA SILVA

Architecture and Performativity - Dina IBRAHIM

Flower Skin (A Flor da Pele) - Rubiane MAIA

Tactical Performance: The Deviations in Brazil - Larissa FERREIRA

When is A Walk Art? - Ian MILLISS

Guaranis: from Jejuvy to the recuperated word - Fabiane BORGES, Verenilde SANTOS

Selections from Marcia Farquhar's Open University - Charlotte RAVEN, Ruth MACLENNAN, Flora PITROLO

Ian Hinchcliff - Roger ELY

Dragan Klaic - Rose FENTON, Lucy NEAL