Reactor feature in this new book on art collectives by Francesco Spampinato, published by Princeton Architectural Press. The book investigates the mechanisms behind the collective production of culture, through discussion with forty collectives about collaboration, membership, responsibility, audiences and more.

Link to the publisher.

More information on the book and the contributors can be found here.

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My name is Daniel Oliver. I have written a chapter about Reactor for the recently published Žižek and Performance book, edited by Broderick Chow and Alex Mangold, published by Palgrave Macmillan (2014). The book collects essays that either bring together key performance theories with key theories from Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, or read certain performances or performance practices through a Žižekian lens. Mine does the latter.

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On Tuesday 3 July, Reactor were interviewed by Nathaniel J Miller at Reactor Halls, for issue 7 of the NVA newspaper.

The interview provides an insight into the collective psyche of Reactor, the complexity of backstory in their projects, and the new concept of the 'collective mask'.

Copies are available from Nottingham venues or http://www.nottinghamvisualarts.net