LIBRARY

Texts by adults, children and teenagers inspired by Eden, an artwork by Canadian artist Mary Catherine Newcomb. (2020)

Critical, poetic and reflective responses by artists to SPILL 2018 and its theme of Time. Edited by Diana Damian Martin. (2018)

Exploring live performance, heritage, theatre and the role of artists in building communities and engaging with complex questions. (2014)

Ideas and conversations about SPILL, featuring contributors from its first two festivals. Edited by Robert Pacitti and Sheila. Ghelani (2018)

Transcript of the Rough Band’s first public conversation about the Pyre Parade, August 2018.

O and Merry Grey discuss the making process of their Rough Band projects, Suffolk, 2018

Maria Chatzichistadoulou interviews Robert for the book, Live Art in the UK, August 2017.

Session notes on the short film Thread, and archaeology in arts and heritage contexts, 2016.

How arts and can culture contribute to social and economic regeneration, March 2013.

Artist talk for Doran George and The Mourner’s Dance Symposium, 2008.

Written for the 2021 SPILL brochure and that year’s theme of On Memory, Robert reflects on making 10 festivals.

BBC NEWS on protester disruption to large scale sound installation Clarion Call at SPILL Festival 2018.

Viewfinder, Disability Arts Online's ongoing video project, commissions Martin O'Brien to work with SPILL

Colin Hambrook on a roundtable discussion on Illness and Disability in Radical Performance Practices

Diana Damian Martin on social justice, experimental programming, and the poetics of body based work in urban space.

Written in Chinese, Tu Robin explores the SPILL 2015 theme of On Spirit and its challenge to the physical body.

Written in Swedish and English, Robert describes SPILL as an artist-led model built to sustain experimental praxis.

Thomas Wilson discusses the large scale project On Landguard Point, commissioned for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Professor Carenza Lewis on mass participation archaeology in the Dig & Sow’ element of On Landguard Point.

Robert on some life experiences, cultural influences, and ambitions, which led to the creation of SPILL Festival.

Caroline McGinn asks if the UK is ready to embrace experimental work, in a feature called Thrills and spills.

‘Experimental theatre is challenging, hard-hitting and booming. Lyn Gardner on why the genre is finally coming in from the cold.’

Robert discusses honouring the past with a large programme for SPILL 2018 which also looks to the future.

Robert on what a festival of radical body based practice might do and who it can be for.

An interview with Robert, exploring the theme of Spirit as a lens and driver for positivity and action.

Clare Callan talks to Robert ahead of SPILL 2014, about curation, theme, audiences, place, and context.

Run Riot talk to Robert about radical work in a time of austerity and bringing live art into the mainstream.

Bojana Jankovic interviews Robert on creating SPILL, sustainability and curation as strategy.

Robert Pacitti talks to Run Riot about SPILL Festival 2012, plus some personal and cultural influences.

Dazed talk to Robert about infection, live performance, talks, contaminated salons and paranoid films.

Robert interviewed on challenging elitism at SPILL 2009,by Pauline Bache for Aesthetica Magazine.

Andrew Haydon speaks with Robert about SPILL Festival 2009, in an article titled Firestarter.

Keith Gallasch and Victoria Baxter speak with Robert about SPILL for RealTime Magazine.

Mark White and Toby Manning speak to Robert before the premiere of Civil in Manchester, April 1996.

Ava Wong Davis writes on intimacy and kindness, in a review of works at SPILL Festival 2018.

Nisha Ramayya writes on participation and accountability at SPILL Festival 2015, themed On Spirit.

Diana Damian-Martin reviews feature film On Landguard Point (2012), after ICA screening, London, 2014.

Natalie Bradbury reviews On Landguard Point - Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2013.

Vicki Weitz visits SPILL and reviews works in the first edition of the festival to take place in Ipswich.

Tom Wilson reviews works by Helen Cole, Romeo Castellucci, Pacitti Company, plus the overall festival.

Dorothy Max Prior on SPILL showings by Ryoji Ikeda, Davide Pepe and Diamanda Galás.

Rachel Lois Clapham at Pacitti Company’s Grand Finale with special guest performers.

Culture Crash: Things As They Are, Theron Schmidt reviews events across SPILL 2009.

Alice Andrews, Miriam King and Tom Wilson review a selection of works from the first SPILL Festival.

‘Lust by Robert Pacitti is seductive and delivers the goods. Roger Evans was in Brighton for its première.’

First Edition

On Agency (brochure replacement)

On Infection

On Proximity

On Contact

On Surrender

On Spirit

En Masse

On Time

On Memory