This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter 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
discourses of politics cultural geography and performance investigating how and why physical
and digital spaces can be analysed and utilised to develop new art forms that challenge
traditional notions of how performance is political and how politics are performative. Across
three sections - Politicising Communities Applying Digital Agency and Performing Landscapes
and Identities - the ten chapters and three interviews cover a wide variety of international
perspectives all informed by innovative ways of addressing the current crisis of social
fragmentation through performance. Providing access to many debates on the theory and practice
of new media this book is of significance to readers from a broad set of academic disciplines
including politics sociology geography and performance studies.
