This issue features an interview with Mick Taussig and Jimmie Durham and texts by Nikos Papastergiadis, Stephen Muecke and others. We also want to let you know that we have a new Book reviews editor, Kate Rossmanith from Macquarie University who takes over from Helena Grehan. Thanks to Helena for all her work in that area and we wish Kate all the best. This issue is her first as Book reviews editor.
 
We hope you enjoy this issue of Performance Paradigm and look forward as always to hearing your thoughts and suggestions.
 
Regards, 
Ed Scheer
For the editors: Edward Scheer, Peter Eckersall and Helena Grehan

PERFORMANCE PARADIGM No 6, 2010.

CONTENTS

Introduction <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/articles/introduction-2/> Stephen Muecke

A Stone Pretending to be a Landscape <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/articles/a-stone-pretending-to-be-a-landscape/> Valerie Tring

Dear Jimmie Durham, Dear John Citizen: I would like to ask you about contemporary art and politics. <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/articles/dear-jimmie-durham-dear-john-citizen-i-would-like-to-ask-you-about-contemporary-art-and-politics/> Darren Jorgensen

Vulture and its … <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/articles/vulture-and-its-%e2%80%a6/> Nikos Papastergiadis

On the train again: apparitions across the Nullarbor (to the spirit, not to the letter of Jimmie Durham) <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/articles/on-the-train-again-apparitions-across-the-nullarbor-to-the-spirit-not-to-the-letter-of-jimmie-durham/> Hamish Morgan

“Is that a pistol in your pocket…?”: Corral Consciousness and the Performance of Enclosure and Concealment. <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/articles/%e2%80%9cis-that-a-pistol-in-your-pocket%e2%80%9d-corral-consciousness-and-the-performance-of-enclosure-and-concealment/> Misha Myers

THIS: Message in a Bottle to Jimmie Durham <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/articles/this-message-in-a-bottle-to-jimmie-durham/> Kim Satchell

Tall Stories: On poetical and non poetical prose and rhythms in fieldwork notes, July 2003, Colombia <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/articles/tall-stories-on-poetical-and-non-poetical-prose-and-rhythms-in-fieldwork-notes-july-2003-colombia/> Michael Taussig

I had a Dream in Tropical Islands Resort in Berlin. Was it real? <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/articles/i-had-a-dream-in-tropical-islands-resort-in-berlin-was-it-real/> Stephen Muecke

Interview
The ‘Nervous State’: A Conversation between Jimmie Durham and Mick Taussig <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/interview/the-%e2%80%98nervous-state%e2%80%99-a-conversation-between-jimmie-durham-and-mick-taussig/> Mick Taussig

Book Reviews
Review of Bertolt Brecht, Meg Mumford (London & New York: Routledge 2009) <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/book-reviews/review-of-bertolt-brecht-meg-mumford-london-new-york-routledge-2009/> Denise Varney

Review of Theatre & series, edited by Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2009- ) <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/book-reviews/review-of-theatre-series-edited-by-jen-harvie-and-dan-rebellato-houndmills-palgrave-2009/> Bryoni Trezise

Review of Performative Realism: Interdisciplinary Studies in Art and Media, edited by Rune Gade and Anne Jerslev (Copenhagen: Museum of Tusculanum Press, 2005) <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/book-reviews/review-of-performative-realism-interdisciplinary-studies-in-art-and-media-edited-by-rune-gade-and-anne-jerslev-copenhagen-museum-of-tusculanum-press-2005/> Anna Scheer

Review of To Watch Theatre. Essays on Genre and Corporeality, Rachel Fensham (Brussels, Bern, e.a.: PIE Peter Lang, 2009) <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/book-reviews/review-of-to-watch-theatre-essays-on-genre-and-corporeality-rachel-fensham-brussels-bern-ea-pie-peter-lang-2009/> Laura Ginters

Review of The Infinity Machine: Mike Parr’s Performance Art 1971-2005, Edward Scheer (Melbourne: Schwartz City Press 2009) Mike Parr: Performances 1971-2008, Mike Parr (Melbourne: Schwartz City Press 2008) <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/book-reviews/review-of-the-infinity-machine-mike-parr%e2%80%99s-performance-art-1971-2005-edward-scheer-melbourne-schwartz-city-press-2009-mike-parr-performances-1971-2008-mike-parr-melbourne-schwartz-cit> Adam Geczy

Review of Performance, Ethics, and Spectatorship in a Global Age, Helena Grehan (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) <http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-6/book-reviews/review-of-performance-ethics-and-spectatorship-in-a-global-age-helena-grehan-palgrave-macmillan-2009/> Una Chaudhuri