Autobiography of a Performance
scores, essays and reflections
$52.60
- Paperback
- Release Date
23 October 2025
Summary
Autobiography of a Performance: Decompressing Poetry, Memory, and Ritual
This co-authored work focuses on five performances developed by Blue Pieta, a multidisciplinary artist, director, dramaturg, and performer, and Bhanu Kapil, a poet, between 2022 and 2025. A public notebook of working scores and performance writing, Autobiography of a Performance contains analytic depictions of shared time experienced during performance, notes on dramaturgy and applause, and thinking to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781068751592 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1068751592 |
| Author: | Bhanu Kapil, Blue Pieta |
| Publisher: | The 87 Press |
| Imprint: | The 87 Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Bhanu Kapil
Bhanu Kapil is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. A former Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow of the University of Cambridge, she is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University and a Cholomondeley Award from the Society of Authors, both for poetry. Her most recent book of poetry, How To Wash A Heart (Pavillion Poetry) won the TS Eliot Prize.
Blue Pieta is a multidisciplinary artist, dramaturg, director and performer. They were dramaturg for Akram Khan Company’s production Thikra: Night of Remembering (2025) and musical operetta Nine Songs directed by Farooq Chaudhry OBE with musical direction by Jocelyn Pook. Their art has been featured in exhibition programming by Serpentine Galleries, Courtauld Gallery, Britten Pears Arts, and staged at The Place, Battersea Arts Centre and Royal Court Theatre.
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