Rider Spoke

Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology-fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteristic virtuosity, Derrida constructs a synergistic reading of archives and archiving, both provocative and compelling.

This book proposes a provocative interpretation of the relationship between the normative imagination defined as a cognitive mode characteristic of the era of affective capitalism. Porta analyzes gender, fashion, artistic creation, and surveillance from the perspective of a regulatory drive, a continuously renovated and imperative push for normalcy that now comes not from the state or mass media, but from citizens themselves. These, united in a spontaneous popular court, armed with smartphones, and driven by a juridical compulsion, become the axes of societies of control. In this way, the distinctive pathology of our times gives rise to a globalized game: normopathy for all.

Audio documentation of a conversation on Live Art and Gaming, led by Symoné on 30th November, 2024, at The Garrett Centre.

Symoné shared her process of creating her work Dream Within A Dream and then opened up to a group discussion about how Live Art, technology and gaming intersect with queerness and alternative narratives. This event was part of a Study Room Session on Live Art and Gaming. Find out more

This is an audio file. A captioned version is available as a video on our vimeo channel 

Can Taiwan performing/performance art be an avant-garde strategy for cultural exchanging with Shanghai e-Art Festival?

-Referring to the changing face of British Live Art.

Research study by Catherine Jiang.

Issue no 5 of Substanz featuring text by Marc Mouci.

This performance arts issue is published on the occasion of Acción|MAD17-XIV Encuentro de Arte de Acción Madrid, November 2017.

Text in German and English.

Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

Publication about the project which brought questions of archiving performance art to a broader public. In German and English.

Investigates critical approaches to performance, ultimately aiming to stimulate new discussion between theorists and practitioners.

The curator who founded MoMA’s video program recounts the artists and events that defined the medium.

Recounts Preciado’s transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., and examines other processes of political, cultural and sexual transition.

An interview with women at the forefront of art and technology.

Liquid damage on publication.

A recipe book produced following a series of public events involving local South Essex foods, their source, preparation and consumption.