The Procrastination School book brings together a series of contributions around the proposal to slow down space-time that was formulated before the arrival of the kind of "pandemic state of exception" that led to successive confinements on a scale that was, until then, unknown to us. The confinement measures resulting from the pandemic have brought ideas of postponement, cancellation, and the imminent threat of such actions to the forefront, particularly within the performing arts.

Because of the arts, improvisation, real-time composition and procrastination, we have embarked on a complex field that convenes artistic research, performance studies, dance studies, and art theory. As our research primarily focuses on the performance arts, we begin our exploration from that perspective.

The result comprises, in the book, a series of texts initiated during the writing of Sílvia Pinto Coelho's MA dissertation and PhD thesis; the writing of the project Procrastination School; the convocation of other authors and colleagues in the process of composing a Procrastination School reading group (2020), Procrastination Marathon (in other terms) (2020) and the Procrastination Marathon (2021), a performative durational event, with guest artists and performance arts students.

We expect to finish the book in Portuguese in October 2023 and have it translated into English as soon as possible.

The book's first part is a 40 pages text on the aftermath of the Procrastination School project by Sílvia Pinto Coelho.

The book's second part comprises short author texts by invitation written on and around acceleration/deceleration, artistic research processes, and art theory.

The book's third part is organized in statements from artists related to the project, manifests, and interviews.

It will also include photos from the Procrastination Marathon and the procrastination scores.

One of the most important aspects of this publication is the availability of raw artists' statements as primary sources. Working with testimonies and primary sources is vital in a period when online plagiarism proliferates.

Not only will the text offer the originality and quality of testimonies generated in a very contextually specific and sensitive period, such as the 2020-2021 pandemic, but it will develop critical thinking and create research speech from practice.