The book provides a research on hybrid spaces of art that have emerged in the Slovene performing arts over the last two decades. Hybrid spaces of art are addressed as an open territory of possibilities where heterogeneous art practices consciously search the positions of betweenness on the elusive marginal areas whilst simultaneously entering in unpredictable relations with the existing aesthetic codes, social, cultural an political circumstances and economic interests.

The anthology Free Hands is a reprint of the theoretical works on the Slovenian theatre produced from 1899 and 1979. They were all published in the newspapers, periodicals or theatre bulletins at the time but – with the exception of two – not in a book form. In the editors’ belief, they significantly contribute to the formation of a comprehensive image of the Slovenian theatre in the past as well as the contemporary theatre and its theory

The monograph is a chronological review of ten-year creative endeavours by Via Negativa, one of the most astute Slovenian projects of contemporary performing art of the last decade that is a regular guest at a number of European festivals and art centres. The publication with extensive visual material and excerpts from texts documents 29 performances accompanied by Dr Blaž Lukan’s essay Erasing the Audience which in detail analyses Via Negativa’s performing strategies with a focus on...