Introduction : perhaps the medium-specificity of the contemporary performing arts is mutation? -- Theatre between performance and installation : three contemporary Belgian examples / The fourth wall, or the rift between citizen and government : another attempt at a conceptual synthesis of theatre and politics / Using recorded images for political purposes / A campsite for the avant-garde and a church in cyberspace : Christophe Schlingensief's dialogue with avant-gardism / Echoes from the animist past / Folding mutants or crumbling hybrids? : of looking baroque in contemporary theatre and performance / Making Unmakeablelove : the relocation of theatre / Witness protection? : surveillance technologies in theatrical performance / The work of art in the age of its intermedial reproduction : Rimini Protokoll's Mnemopark / Rimini Protokoll's theatricalization of reality / Digital landscapes : the meta-picturesque qualities of Kurt d'Haeseleer's audiovisual sceneries / The productivity of the prototype : on Julien Maire's 'cinema of contraptions' / The theatre of recorded sound and film : vacating performance in Michael Curran's Look what they done to my song / Doubled bodies and live loops : on Ragnar Kjartansson's mediatized performances / Between solitaire and a basketball game : dramaturgical strategies in the work of Antonia Baehr