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Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-332).

Exquisite catastrophe / Adrian Heathfield -- Returning to the hiss: listening to John Avery / Flora Pitrolo -- That was then, this is now / Claire MacDonald -- A decade of Forced Entertainment / Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment -- The slow hurry of figuration / Giulia Palladini -- Deferring the inevitable / Rabih Mroué -- Once upon a time, there were two words that fell in love with each other... / Joy Kristin Kalu -- A text on twenty years with sixty-six footnotes / Tim Etchells -- Acts of admittance, facts of speech / Joe Kelleher -- One thing after another: the list as theatrical form / Theron Schmidt -- The art of the impossible / Séverine Ruset -- Compendium: a forced glossary / Matthew Goulish -- Real disquiet / Augusto Corrieri -- Disappointment island / Sara Jane Bailes -- An answer without a question / Tim Etchells -- Tuning to the room / Adrian Heatherfield in conversation with Forced Entertainment and Hugo Glendinning

"Making performance works for four decades, British experimental theatre collective Forced Entertainment has become globally renowned for its singular aesthetic and audacious events, melding narrative fragments with strange acts, broken poetry, audience provocations, and comical failure. With its low-fi theatre, intimate text-based works, and epic durational spectacles, the group has profoundly influenced the international performance scene, evoking and testing the politics of contemporary life. 'Things That Go Through Your Mind When Falling' is the definitive book on a remarkable oeuvre: an exquisite anthology of previously unseen images by photographer Hugo Glendenning, collecting interview reflections and documentary materials alongside original texts and critical essays, which make a forceful intervention in the discourse on contemporary performance." --back cover