Sam Čermák, PhD

@sam-cermak.bsky.social

Art History in Performance Studies | Dissidence, Czechoslovakia, Theatre | Awardwinning Scholar | Lecturer | Visual Cultures and Performance Art | Middling Cosplayer | Queer | No LGB without the T | He/They |

Huge congrats to Adri Disman and Nikki Schotzko for their new publication. I have two short chapters in there and I think it's an essential buy for students and enthusiasts of performance art. I particularly appreciate their committment to have chapters on artists from across the world <3

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Today, sadly, Habermas has passed. His scholarship (and the critiques of it) have been hugely influential on my work, specifically my thinking about first and second public spheres in my book. A great theoretical mind that has had a huge mark on theories of publicness in general. Rest in peace

I emerge, out of nowhere, to tell all my (currently 0) followers that I HAVE PUBLISHED A BOOK! It's beautiful, it's amazing, and I love it! It's called Abnormal Peripheries and it's about performance in the former Czechoslovakia that emerged under political pressures. GO READ IT and share this post

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