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Introduction

1. Time of condensation: Understanding of contemporaneity
Eda Čufer: Our cause
Bojana Kunst: Difficulties with contemporaneity
Petra Pogorevc: Political beyond the modern
Ana Vujanović: Maska’s hacking of the virtual. Provisional mapping of Maska within the local, regional and international contexts

2. Expanding the field: history and context
Rok Vevar: Proposals for the conceptualization of history of contemporary dance in Slovenia
Simon Kardum: Introductory rituals of the third generation
Aldo Milohnić: “The political” and theatre, which is not its double. About the performances of the “third generation” in the early nineties of the 20th century
Tomaž Toporišič: The vulnerable body of the text and the stage. Performative shift and its traces in Slovenian theatre after the year 2000

3. Spaces, situations and transitions of art
Igor Zabel: Marko Peljhan’s Theatre of resistance
Nataša Petrešin: Fictitious institutions, theatre and intermedia arts
Aldo Milohnić: Artivism
Bojana Kunst: Politics of affection and uneasiness
Mojca Puncer: From black to white, from white to red. Theatre-museum and other hybrid poetics of performing spaces

4. Politics of performing and the performing body
Mojca Kumerdej: Case Kapelica. Ethics of not yielding to desire
Blaž Lukan: The real in Jablanovec. Eight projects, eight observations
Katja Praznik: I am in movement with you. Slovenian contemporary dance between movement and body
Marina Gržinić: On the dramatization of performance art and performative politics with female artists from ex-Yugoslavia

5. Spectator and the eye
Eda Čufer: Athletics of the eye
Luk Van den Dries: Soap operas and thought games. On the theatre work of Emil Hrvatin
Stojan Pelko: Double exposition
Blaž Lukan: Paradigms of the theatre of surplus. De Brea, Janežič, Lorenci
Barbara Orel: From behind the retina. The configuration of perception in contemporary Slovenian theatre

About the authors

Summaries

Index