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Call for Papers Documenta (Volume 44, Issue 2, 2026) | Story(re)telling - Verhalen (her)vertellen

Posted by Steff Nellis on 2025-07-10

Call for Papers Documenta (Volume 44, Issue 2, 2026) | Story(re)telling - Verhalen (her)vertellen

Guest editor: Noah Lena Vercauteren, noahlena.vercauteren@ugent.be

*** This edition accepts both English and Dutch contributions. Deze editie aanvaardt zowel Engelse als Nederlandse bijdragen. ***

Stories and storytelling are powerful tools of creation, especially when it comes …

Call for Papers Documenta (Volume 44, Issue 1, 2026) | Flashpoint Volksbühne

Posted by Documenta on 2025-02-20

Guest Editors: Lily Climenhaga (UGent; lily.climenhaga@ugent.be) and Christine Korte (Freie Universität Berlin/NYU Berlin; christine.korte@nyu.edu) 

Born from the workers’ movement of the late 1800s, opened in the first year of the First World War, Berlin’s Volksbühne has long served as a lightning rod for political, social, and cultural conflict. …

Call for Papers Documenta (Volume 43, Issue 1, 2025) | Milo Rau - Comparative Lenses

Posted by Documenta on 2024-07-15

Guest editor: Lily Climenhaga, lily.climenhaga@ugent.be

In 2009, Swiss-German theatre-maker Milo Rau stormed onto Western European mainstages with the premiere of the first production of his then recently founded production company, the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM), The Last Days of the Ceausescus. Since 2009, Rau has gained international …

Call for Papers Documenta (Volume 42, Issue 2, 2024 and Volume 43, Issue 2, 2024) - Toneelstof V & VI

Posted by Posted by Steff Nellis on 2024-01-16 © "Infini 1-15", Jozef Wouters/Decoratelier (Photo: Phile Deprez) on 2024-01-16

CFP Documenta – Toneelstof V & VI

Issue editor: Jasper Delbecke (LUCA School of Arts/Ghent University)

Between 2007 and 2010, Toneelstof appeared in Documenta: tijdschrift voor theater. This four-part series was the result of a three-year heritage project initiated by Thersites (Association of Flemish Theatre Critics). Toneelstof emerged …

Documenta 41.2 is out!

Posted by Steff Nellis on 2023-12-22

Have yourself a merry little… brand new Documenta isse!

Documenta 41.2 (2023) is out!

Documenta 41.1 is out!

Posted by Steff Nellis on 2023-11-16

We are happy to announce that from now on, Documenta is a fully open-access, online journal, making the research at S:PAM more widely accessible. Enjoy!

Deadline Extended

Posted by Steff Nellis on 2023-07-24

Summer extension for the Dance + New Tech issue!

Documenta 40.2 is out!

Posted by Steff Nellis on 2023-05-09

The second issue of 2022 is finally here! This latest edition features contributions from Rosa van Kollem, Marie Peeters, Eléa De Winter, Lena Vercauteren, Marthe De Ruysscher, Steff Nellis, Remi Cosijn, Rojda Gülüzar Karakuş, Eline Van den Broeck, Klaas Tindemans, and Joachim Ben Yakoub. Enjoy reading!

Call for Papers Documenta (Volume 42, Issue 1, 2024) | Dance and New Tech

Posted by Steff Nellis on 2023-04-28

DANCE AND NEW TECH.

 A.I., VR, MoCap, Blockchain and the new frontiers we are designing for the field.

What are the new frontiers we expect for dance to break through, to draw from, to reiterate, to simulate? Alongside this, what are the new frameworks that we need to account …

Documenta 40.1 (2022) - Marianne Van Kerkhoven

Posted by Steff Nellis on 2022-12-08

Marianne Van Kerkhoven heeft als dramaturge een unieke plaats in het podiumkunstenlandschap verworven. Haar loopbaan leest als een verzameling van cruciale momenten in de recente Vlaams-Nederlandse theatergeschiedenis sinds 1968. Na haar vroegtijdig overlijden in 2013 denken verschillende instanties dan ook na over haar artistiek, kritisch en wetenschappelijk nalatenschap. Zo ook …

Call for Papers Documenta (Volume 41, Issue 2, 2023) | Theater & Law

Posted by Eline Denolf on 2022-10-07

Documenta: Journal for Theater (Volume 41, Issue 2, 2023)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Theater & Law 

Issue editor: Steff Nellis (Ghent University) 

In 2017, Swiss director Milo Rau set up a highly influential theatrical trial: The Congo Tribunal. Despite pointing out the fictional status of his tribunal, he expresses a great …

Call for Papers Documenta Special Edition | Parliament of Practices

Posted by Eline Denolf on 2022-10-06

Documenta: Vol. 41, #1
Special Edition: Parliament of Practices

Can new epistemologies, tactics and even an ethos emerge from a dialogue between different artists, researchers and other professionals grounded in diverse traditions of praxis and poiesis? How can we open up a process of exchange - grounded, partly, in laboratory …