Recommended Reading

 

Introductory texts

Carr, C.  On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century, University Press of New England, 1993 (ISBN 0 8195 6269 6) (Study Room Ref P0221)

Ferguson, Russell (ed).  Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949 - 1979, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Thames and Hudson, 1998 (ISBN 0 500 28050 9) (Study Room Ref P0133)

George, Adrian (ed).  Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Tate Publishing, 2003 (ISBN 1 85437 525 3) (Study Room Ref P0420)

Goldberg, RoseLee.  Performance: Live Art Since the 60s, Thames and Hudson, 1998 (ISBN 0 500 01875 8) (Study Room Ref P0002)

Goldberg, RoseLee.  Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, Thames and Hudson, (revised and expanded) 2001 (ISBN 0 500 20339 3) (Study Room Ref P0224)

Heathfield, Adrian (ed).  Live: Art and Performance, Tate Publishing, 2004 (ISBN 1  85437 501 6) (Study Room Ref P0553)

Hoffman, Jens and Joan Jonas.  Perform, Thames and Hudson, 2005 (ISBN 0 500 93006 6) (Study Room Ref P0625)

Phelan, Peggy.  Unmarked: the Politics of Performance, Routledge, 1993 (ISBN 0 415 06822 3) (Study Room Ref P0118)

Sofaer, Joshua.  The Performance Pack, Tate Modern and Live Art Development Agency, 2004 (ISBN 0 9546040 1 6) (Study Room Ref P0533)

Ugwu, Catherine (ed).  Let's Get It On: The Politics of Black Performance, Institute of Contemporary Arts and Bay Press, 1995 (ISBN 0 905263 64 2) (Study Room Ref P0001)

Vergine, Lea.  Body Art and Performance: The Body as Language, Skira, (revised and expanded) 2000 (ISBN 88 8118 689 6) (Study Room Ref P0123)

Warr, Tracey and Amelia Jones.  The Artist's Body, Phaidon, 2000 (ISBN 0 7148 3502 1) (Study Room Ref P0116)

Introduction to and surveys of contemporary British Live Art

Athey, Ron, Lois Keidan, Manuel Vason et al.  Exposures, Black Dog Publishing, 2002 (ISBN 1 901033 67 8) (Study Room Ref P0427)

Childs, Nicky and Jeni Walwin (eds).  A Split Second in Paradise: Live Art, Installation and Performance, River Oram Press, 1998 (ISBN 1 85489 099 9) (Study Room Ref P0014)

Hawthorne, Matt (ed).  The Degenerate Art Book: Haunting Contemporary Culture, Arnolfini Live, 2001 (ISBN 0 907738 67 2) (Study Room Ref P0280)

Heathfield, Adrian (ed).  Small Acts: Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of Time, Black Dog Publishing, 2000 (ISBN 1 901033 57 0) (Study Room Ref P0182)

Heathfield, Adrian, Fiona Templeton, and Andrew Quick.  Shattered Anatomies: Traces of the Body in Performance, Arnolfini Live, 1997, (ISBN 0 907738540) (Study Room Ref P0119)

Phillips, Andrea (ed).  Out of Time: Hull Time Based Arts 1984 - 1998, Hull Time Based Arts, 1997 (ISBN 0 9531623 0 3) (Study Room Ref P0201)

Waugh, Mark (ed).  I Love Live Art, Arts Council of England, 2001 (ISBN 0 7287 0812 4) (Study Room Ref P0165)

Professional development texts specific to Live Art

Hill, Leslie and Helen Paris.  Guerilla Performance and Multimedia, Continuum, 2001 (ISBN 0 8264 5330 9) (Study Room Ref P0428)

About British based Live Art practitioners

Franko B, Gray Watson, et al.  Oh Lover Boy, Black Dog Publishing, 2001 (ISBN 1 90103 382 1) (Study Room Ref P0213)

Etchells, Tim.  Certain Fragments: Contemporary Performance and Forced Entertainment, Routledge, 1999 (ISBN 0 415 173833) (Study Room Ref P0135)

Etchells, Tim and Forced Entertainment.  Imaginary Evidence, Forced Entertainment, 2003 (Study Room Ref D0086)

Gob Squad.  The Making of a Memory, Synwolt Verlag Berlin, 2005 (ISBN 3 937065 06 7) (Study Room Ref P0646)

La Ribot, La Ribot Vol I, Luc Derycke, 2004 (ISBN 1631 414X) (Study Room Ref P0594)

La Ribot, La Ribot Vol II, Luc Derycke, 2004 (ISBN 2 914124 25 2) (Study Room Ref P0595)

Locus + (eds). Small Time Life: Andre Stitt, Black Dog Publishing, 2001 (ISBN 1 901033 67 8) (Study Room Ref P0252)

Newman, Hayley and Aaron Williamson.  Hayley Newman Performancemania, Matt's Gallery, 2001 (ISBN 0 907623 37 9) (Study Room Ref P0257)

All of these publications can be read in our Study Room and many can be purchased from Unbound.