Myself and Bojana Jankovic will be curating a live digital publication throughout the festival, joined by writers Libby Norman and Lewis Church, as well as Berivan Altun, Alice Iardella and Zoe Onatoye.
Responding to performances as they happen, from festival spaces, the digital publication explores ways of encountering and responding to performance and Live Art, in search of models of critical writing that are formally daring, critically rigorous, contextually relevant and adaptive to the needs of an ever-changing, shape-shifting field.
The texts will be posted throughout the festival. The writing will be coming from the dedicated hubs in Rich Mix and the Toynbee Studios and projected live in both venues.
Steakhouse Festival 2018 will also mark the soft launch of Critical Interruptions Vol 1, the first in a series of publications exploring criticism in Live Art.
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Critical Interruptions is a collaborative project exploring live art and performance criticism. With little regards for review, we search for critical forms and strategies in dialogue with live art and performance, wonder how to develop rigorous and relevant critical writing and lure new writers into thinking about radical and experimental work. Critical Interruptions is a project by Diana Damian Martin and Bojana Jankovi?.
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