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Author of numerous books on international performance cultures, including three studies of the work of Antonin Artaud (most recently, on the final notebooks: Artaud: Terminal Curses, 2008), and books on the Japanese performer/theorist Tatsumi Hijikata, on the work of Jean Genet, and on the films of the Vienna Action Group’s performances. He has also published many books on urban cultures in relation to performance, film, photography and digital art; his most recent publication (2012) is on the personal archive of the moving-image pioneer, Eadweard Muybridge. The Times newspaper in London called his books “brilliant, profound and provocative,” and The Independent newspaper described him as a “writer of real distinction.” He has held posts at the California Institute of the Arts, Tokyo Keio University, IMEC in Paris, and was a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Program in 2006. In 2012/13, he was a Fellow at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures.” During this Fellowship he wrote the book Performance Projections which will be published by Reaktion Books and Chicago University Press later this year. He currently holds a two-year “Gerda Henkel Stiftung” Scholarship. Barber is Professor of Visual Culture at Kingston University in London.