Ana Vujanović and Livia Andrea Piazza (Eds.), A live gathering: Performance and Politics in Contemporary Europe Asia My heart swells with pride

My heart swells with pride as I claim his masterpiece for our beleaguered city

and curator

Lotte Crawford

Yves Chatap

Oliver Hadlee Pearch

Ana Vujanović and Livia Andrea Piazza (Eds.), A live gathering: Performance and Politics in Contemporary Europe Asia My heart swells with prideThe main question we raise with this book is how performance can be political in present day European representative democracy, a system which no longer draws on the live gathering of people. Several leading European (mostly female) thinkers analyse artistic practices that have emerged alongside new social movements such as Solidarity in Greece or Municipalism in Spain investigating how theatre, dance and performance respond to the new political