Lena Simic

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PhD projects

Lena's research areas include contemporary performance practice, political performance, live art, art activism, feminist theatre and performance, and critical arts practice in relation to climate crisis, ecology and environment. Happy to receive PhD research proposals in connection to these themes.

Research activity per year

40 results

2023
A Maiden Speech: This is an emergency
Simic, L., 28 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Performance Research. 27, 3-4
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review
2022
Conclusion: On sustaining mothering performance
Šimić, L. & Underwood-Lee, E., 21 Nov 2022, Mothering Performance: Maternal Action. Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group, p. 228-236 9 p. (Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Open Access
Introduction: Maternal action as exchange, practice, and solidarity
Šimić, L. & Underwood-Lee, E., 21 Nov 2022, Mothering Performance: Maternal Action. Simic, L. & Underwood-Lee, E. (eds.). Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group, p. 1-12 12 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Open Access
Mothering Performance: Maternal Action
Underwood-Lee, E. & Šimić, L., 21 Nov 2022, London and New York: Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group. 260 p. (Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies)
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

Open Access
Thinking Back through Our Mothers
Entwistle, A., Šimić, L. & Underwood-Lee, E., 21 Nov 2022, Mothering Performance: Maternal Action. Simic, L. & Underwood-Lee, E. (eds.). Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group, p. 15-28 14 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Open Access
2021
FAN Mothers in Our Fragile Social Network against Climate Change
Duffy, C., Hawkes, J., Lovett, L., McCloskey, P., Simic, L., Svendsen, Z., Verson, J. & Townley, A., 5 Oct 2021, In: Journal of the Motherhood Initiative. 12, 2, p. 49-64 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review

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Maternal Performance: Feminist Relations
Simic, L. & Underwood-Lee, E., 2021, Palgrave Macmillan. 252 p. (Contemporary Performance InterActions)
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
2020
Three Conversations
Simic, L., Anderson, N. & Anderson, S., 8 Dec 2020, In: Studies in the Maternal. p. 1-7 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review

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50 Downloads (Pure)
2019
10 – The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home: 2008 - 2018
Simic, L. & Anderson, G., 2019, Liverpool: The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home. 192 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Returning to Ourselves: Medea/Mothers' Clothes and Patience one decade on
Simic, L. & Underwood-Lee, E., 2019, (Accepted/In press) The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art. Marchevska, E. & Walkerdine , V. (eds.). 1 ed. Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
The Body in Letters: Once Again, Through Time and Space
Simic, L., Epp Buller, R. & Underwood-Lee, E., 1 Oct 2019, Inappropriate Bodies:Art, Design, and Maternity. Epp Buller, R. & Reeve, C. (eds.). Bradford, Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press, p. 331-344
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2018

Democracy is not possible here: A private argument in public
Anderson, G. & Simic, L., 1 Feb 2018, In: Kritika Kultura. 2018, 30-31, p. 224-227 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review
Encountering Performing (M)Others: Feminist Maternal Practice in Contemporary Performance
Simic, L., 10 Oct 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Contemporary Theatre Review. 28, 3, p. 401-412 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review

Open Access
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2 Citations (Scopus)

44 Downloads (Pure)
My Sea: on the waves of poetics and politics
Simic, L., 29 Oct 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Performance Research. 23, 4-5, p. 74-78
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review

Open Access
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1 Citation (Scopus)

54 Downloads (Pure)
2017
At Home and Abroad: The Study Room in Exile
Anderson, G. & Simic, L., 21 Dec 2017, Performance & Civic Engagement. Breed, A. & Prentki, T. (eds.). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 69-88 20 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Compassion is Dissent
Anderson, G. & Simic, L., 16 Mar 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Research in Drama Education. 22, 1, p. 130-143
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review

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Editorial
Simic, L. & Underwood-Lee, E., 7 Nov 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Performance Research. 22, 4, p. 1-4
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial (journal)

Open Access
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2 Citations (Scopus)

20 Downloads (Pure)
Editorship, Editorial and Article in a Special Issue of Performance Research 'On the Maternal'
Simic, L. & Underwood-Lee, E., 30 Nov 2017, In: Performance Research. 22, 4
Research output: Contribution to journal › Other (journal) › peer-review
Manifesto for Maternal Performance (Art) 2016!
Simic, L. & Underwood-Lee, E., 7 Nov 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Performance Research. 22, 4, p. 131-139 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review

Open Access
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8 Citations (Scopus)

73 Downloads (Pure)
2016
42 Among the Gormleys
Simic, L., 30 Nov 2016
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

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4 Boys [for Beuys]
Simic, L., Anderson, G., Jones, C., Hunter, R., Evans, M. & Jasiewicz, E., Sept 2016, Liverpool: The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home. 86 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Backpages 26.4, Performance and the Maternal
Simic, L. & Underwood-Lee, E., 24 Dec 2016, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Contemporary Theatre Review. 26, 4, p. 536-539
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review

Open Access
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Contemporary Mamactivist Artists: A Forum on Maternal Activist Art for the Studies in the Maternal Special Issue on The Everyday Maternal Practice: Activist Structures in Creative Work, Summer 2016
Loveless, N., Buller, R. E., Donoghue, D., Drummond, D., El-Sherbini, Y., Haq, F., Hawkes, J., Irvin, S., Kessel, C., Knowles, H., Lusztig, I., McCloskey, P., Regn, I. A., Richter, S. & Simic, L., 15 Dec 2016, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Studies in the Maternal. 8, 2, p. 56-62
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review

Open Access
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Friday Records - Online Journal (2014) and Live Art Event (2016)
Simic, L., 2016, (E-pub ahead of print)
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal
Simic, L., Underwood-Lee, E., Phillips, Á., Furse, A., Bean, B., Qualmann, C., Marchevska, E., Surman, G., Sargeant, H., Walsh, H., Clarke, L., Philps, L., Gingell, Z., Ryan, M., Evans, T., Rippel, I., Garton, R. & Dent, E., Sept 2016, (E-pub ahead of print) Live Art Development Agency. 44 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Other (book/report)

Open Access
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Medea/Mothers’ Clothes (revisited)
Simic, L., 26 Feb 2016
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
2015
Backpages 25.3, A Provocative Cold Consideration: 3 Winters at the National Theatre in London
Simic, L., Anderson, N. & Anderson, G., 17 Jul 2015, In: Contemporary Theatre Review. 25, 3, p. 446-464
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review

Open Access
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1 Citation (Scopus)

227 Downloads (Pure)
Full Term video film (9 minutes) (2014)
Simic, L. & O'Malley, J., 2015, (Unpublished)
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

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The Mums and Babies Ensemble: A Manual
Radosavljević, D., Rigby, A. & Simic, L., 2015, The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home. 80 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

Open Access
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2014
40 Minutes (2014)
Simic, L., 29 Nov 2014, (Unpublished)
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
Becoming British: exploring citizenship through arts practice
Simic, L. & Tyler, I., 2014, Immigrant protest: politics, aesthetics and everyday dissent. Tyler, I. & Marciniak, K. (eds.). SUNY, p. 63-81 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Birth Story
Simic, L., 26 Sept 2014, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Performance Research. 19, 4, p. 24-30
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review

Open Access
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Five: 2008 - 2012
Anderson, G. & Simic, L., 5 Sept 2014, Liverpool: The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home. 182 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

Open Access
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2013
On Foreign Discomfort: Magdalena Makeup Live Art Event
Simic, L., 2013, in Women, the Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience. Rowe, D. & Meskimmon, M. (eds.). Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 85-98 14 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2012
The Hazardous Conversation: The Practice of Intimacy in Performance at The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home
Simic, L. & Anderson, G., 2012, Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital Performance. Chatzichristodoulou, M. & Zerihan, R. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 51-62 12 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2011
Blood & Soil: we were always meant to meet… Performance Document
Simic, L. & Verson, J., Apr 2011
Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact

Open Access
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2010

Negotiating a Domestic: Cultural Agency and the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home
Simic, L. & Anderson, G., 2010, Culture and Agency: Contemporary Culture and Urban Change. Degen, M. & Miles, M. (eds.). Plymouth University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Watch Out! Here Comes Uselessness: The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home on Financial Transparency
Simic, L., Anderson, G. & Kingdom, R., 2010, In Time: A Collection of Live Art Case Studies: A Live Art UK Project. Live Art Development Agency, L. A. U. (ed.). London: Live Art Development Agency, p. 70-82 13 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Open Access
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2009
Maternal Matters and Other Sisters Artist Catalogue
Simic, L., Tyler, I., Lake, A., Bueschges, K. & Butterworth, C., Nov 2009
Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact

Open Access
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On medea/mothers clothes: A foreigner re-figuring medea and motherhood
Šimić, L., 1 Nov 2009, In: Feminist Review. 93, 1, p. 109-115 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review

1 Citation (Scopus)

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