Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen presents a thoroughgoing exploration of the major fissures of established knowledge created by a new trans-disciplinary, worldwide project for the twenty-first century. Focussing on the most fleeting and yet pervasive practices of the performance and screen arts, it both documents and analyses the practical-theoretical integration of hands-on creative and scholarly methods of research. Through an innovative combination of manuscript, catalogue and digital multi-media formats, it aims to embody the principles of performance and screen practice-as-research in its structure and design – making book pages and DVD images mutually illuminating. With over fifty practitioner-researcher contributors, Practice-as-Research constitutes the most comprehensive presentation of this sometimes controversial and frequently fresh way of doing things with an imaginative convergence of artistic and scholarly processes.

The editors work across a range of disciplines and modes of research practice.

LUDIVINE ALLEGUE is an artist who worked as a Researcher on the Bristol-based PARIP project from 2005-06. She recently worked with Yvon Bonenfant and Julius Fujak on projects that explore transversality across performance, music and visual arts.

BAZ KERSHAW is Professor of Performance at University of Warwick, UK. He has over four decades experience as a director, devisor and writer in experimental, radical and ecological performance. He has published extensively on theatre and performance practice, theory and history and is currently working on a book on Performance Ecology.

SIMON JONES is Professor of Performance at University of Bristol, UK. Formed in 1990, Simon Jones' company Bodies in Flight makes performance work that has at its heart our contemporary, everyday experience of being caught between our physical and psychological selves. The company has a significant regional, national and international profile and has toured extensively.

ANGELA PICCINI is Lecturer in Screen Studies at University of Bristol, UK. She publishes on contemporary archaeologies and screen media practices (from factual television to documentary installation) and investigates place and materiality through video and installation.