The equation is simply. Performing arts have to publish more books. As many as possible. Oh yes, it is hard to find performance books in the bookstores. The questions is just whose problem it is. The bookstores’ or the performing arts’. It is indeed rather mystical, and not, that there is so little books on performing arts for example in relation to visual art or architecture. On the other hand it is of course due to the ephemeral character of the expression. As long as it’s not in the book the audience have to come and see the show. But also means that there is hardly no writing on performance and if there is it is often packaged in an academic costume that even more often, most of all, make us want to cry.

In-presentable outlines the last three issues of the festival and portraits a number of artists and performances. Between interviews, transcripts of artists talks etc. a series of essayistic text are introduced. International Festival’s Tor Lindstrand and Mårten Spångberg contributes with two texts on architecture as event respectively the meaning on contemporary.
Books printed or not, in bookstores or not, share one thing: the desire for readers. Get the book, read it and publish another one.
Long live the book.