General Introduction; Ananda Breed and Tim Prentki -- Introduction t o Politicising Communities; Ananda Breed and Tim Prentki -- A Dog's Obe yed in Office; Tim Prentki -- Performing Difference: Diversity, represe ntation and the nation; Dominic Hingorani -- At Home and Abroad: The St udy Room in Exile; Gary Anderson and Lena éSimiâc -- Interview with Rol and Muldoon -- Introduction to Applying Digital Agency; Ananda Breed an d Tim Prentki -- Nowhere without you; Misha Myers -- Sounding out the C ity; Hannah Nicklin -- The Dead are Coming: Political Performance Art, Activist Remembrance and Dig(ital) Protests; Samuel Merrill -- Internet , Theatre and the Public Voice; Christina Papagiannouli -- Interview wi th Christian Cherene -- Introduction to Performing Landscapes; Ananda B reed and Tim Prentki -- Performance, Place and Culture for Civic Engage ment in Kyrgyzstan; Ananda Breed -- 'Mr President, open the door please , I want to be free': participatory walking as aesthetic strategy for t ransforming a hostage space; Luis Sotelo -- Artistic Diplomacy: On civi c engagement and transnational theatre; Jonas Tinius -- Interview with Nurlan Asanbekov.

This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encoun ter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it tracks across the overlapping d iscourses of politics, cultural geography and performance, investigatin g how and why physical and digital spaces can be analysed and utilized to develop new art forms that challenge traditional notions of how perf ormance is political and how politics are performative. Across three se ctions - Politicising Communities, Applying Digital Agency and Performi ng Landscapes and Identities - the ten chapters and three interviews co ver a wide variety of international perspectives, all informed by innov ative ways of addressing the current crisis of social fragmentation thr ough performance. Providing access to many debates on the theory and pr actice of new media, this book is of significance to readers from a bro ad set of academic disciplines, including politics, sociology, geograph y, and performance studies.