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Alongside an enviably long list of current projects, Andy Field mentions that the Forest Fringe is still looking for people with good (read: interesting, adventurous, delicate, experimental, risky) ideas for the festival in August. As he’s previously explained at length, the Forest Fringe is intended to be a space for low to no-risk experimentation: We’re …

Back in the UK and working on a research seminar for next week – Rehearsing Utopia and Planning Disaster: new directions in collaborative performance. If anything at all, I give good title. If you’re around Glasgow next week on Tuesday, give me a shout. I should (in time) be putting chunks of my presentation up …

The programme for the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival is out, [correction: it's a teaser story. The programme launches in full on April 7] the second produced by relative newcomer Jonathan Mills, and with a theatre line-up including 4.48 Psychosis (staged by Poland’s TR Warszawa) and a new work by the National Theatre of Scotland. The …

Spent the day in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art – kept finding myself back in the Gordon Matta-Clark retrospective, and his sculptural building cuts – shapes and slices carved out of abandoned buildings. More than anything else, it reminds me of Rachel Whiteread‘s 1993 sculpture House, a concrete cast of the inside of an …