Artists' Guides to the Study Room
As part of the continuous development of the Study Room we have commissioned a range of artists and commentators to write personal Study Room Guides to help navigate users through this resource.
The idea is to enable Study Room users to experience the materials in a new way and highlight materials that they may not have otherwise come across.
Study Room Guides are available on:
The Body in Performance including works employing the body as an artistic tool and site of representation. This guide has been created by Franko B and takes the form of an interview with writer Dominic Johnson.
Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights in relation to both historical and contemporary practices. This guide has been created by Adrien Sina and takes the form of a website which provides an overview of the development of the question of Human Rights and illustrates a range of strategies undertaken by artists.
Site and Space In Performance including works made in, through and for specific locations. This guide has been created by Gregg Whelan of Lone Twin and takes the form of a series of short texts written in response to key works in the Study Room.
Performance and Activism, and the strategies that artists have engaged with to address radical cultural, social and political agendas over the last 20 years. This guide has been created by John Jordan in the form of an open letter.
Read about this Guide on the Groundswell blog here.
Socially and Politically Engaged Performances that seek to question and transform the institutions of power. This guide has been created by Robert Pacitti.
In search of documentology. Walking (half) the study room is a playful guide exploring the edges of 'event' and 'document'. This guide has been created by Marco Pustianaz.
A Small MAP PIECE of Performance Art in China, focusing on both historical and contemporary practices. This guide has been created by Adele Tan.
Making It Your Own? - Social Engagement and Participation, directs you to key artworks and texts in which the artist's intention is to engage the audience in the work. This guide has been created by FrenchMottershead.
One to One Performance offers a series of reflections on a number of performances created by artists for an 'audience of one'. This guide has been created by Rachel Zerihan.
Rachel Lois Clapham of Open Dialogues is currently working on a forthcoming Study Room Guide on performance writing entitled Is it a Bird? Nestled in between performance, writing and documentation, lying in that elusive crack between art and theory, is a playful but rare animal. A creature that avoids classification, slips through the grasp of even the most dedicated and experienced artists and writers. As a species it is difficult to locate and almost impossible to imitate. It’s all around you in the Live Art Development Agency Study Room, and yet.......
The Study Room Guides by Franko B, Lone Twin and John Jordan are available to read on this website and in the Study Room. Downloadable pdf files are available through each relevant page.
