This platform exemplifies the four most critical components of proper digital humanities projects: housing a special collection, exhibition of material from that collection, the means for international collaboration, and the use of a search engine. At the heart of every Digital Humanities project is collaboration and bringing scholarship into public domain. Accordingly, I have invited scholars from Performance Studies, Gender Studies, anthropology and post-Soviet studies to write essays about performance art, singular events, performative actions, protest performance, and everyday social practices across the Central and Eastern European region and to interpret these actions for social messages. This section will expand to address performance art in Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Russia.
The following scholarship is published exclusively on this archive and puts forward the archive’s mission: to understand the actual life of a society, the first place to look is its culture. The premise of this digital humanities project is that theatre and performance art are some of the best genres for helping people understand the social reality and social problems of a country.
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