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. For each audience member receives a personal letter that continues a conversation that has been taking place via email between the artis and a series of contributors regarding understandings and practices of the potentials of performance. These exchanges come in contact with each other in the performance of a common reading in space and time of writings that exhaust the question: ‘What are the potentials of performance?’ You Have One Unread Letter: the list continues also exists in the space as an installation scroll.

In (W)reading Performance Writing writer and Co-Director of Open Dialogues Rachel Lois Clapham has assembled twenty practitioners from diverse fields of poetry, theatre, visual art and performance on the topic of Performance Writing. This unique guide comprises of syllabuses, manifestos, scores, personal testimonies and practical exercises, many drawn from resources available in the Live Art Development Agency study room.

The explores the nature of performative writing and its relation to the staged event of performance. To be found in P1417.

The explores the nature of performative writing and its relation to the staged event of performance. To be found in P1417.

Video documentation of the text-based performance project. Part of the Beyond Text initiative. To be found in P1417. To be found in P1417.

Video documentation of the text-based performance project. Part of the Beyond Text initiative. To be found in P1417. To be found in P1417.

Still images from the text-based performance project “10 Performances”. To be found in P1417.

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Includes images and video documentation (D1320 – D1325), together with documents, texts, biographies, responses. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433)