Explores how different concepts of time – including linear clock time, the cyclical time of the planets and seasons, the rhythms of the body and individual memories – have impacted on and been reinforced by theatre throughout history, from medieval times to the present day.
| Artist / Author | David Wiles |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN | 978-1137343864 |
| Reference | P3004 |
| Date | 2014 |
| Type | Publication |
Performance Research Vol 6. No. 1. Spring 2001
Departures
The first of three related issues which engage with the migrations of people, performance and performance cultures, generating writing around differing geographies and histories of travel and travelling performance in a diversity of written and visual forms.
Leaving Berlin : On the Performance of Monumental Change
Nicolas Whybrow
pp. 37 – 45
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship’s owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert-the only extant public document related to the massacre of these African slaves-Zong! tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song, moan, shout, oath, ululation, curse, and chant, Zong! excavates the legal text. Memory, history, and law collide and metamorphose into the poetics of the fragment. Through the innovative use of fugal and counterpointed repetition, Zong! becomes an anti-narrative lament that stretches the boundaries of the poetic form, haunting the spaces of forgetting and mourning the forgotten.
This title offers the gender-bending performances of Dlane Torr, creator of the Man for a Day workshops. This book documents and contextualizes the development of Torr’s internationally celebrated workshops, as well as her own ongoing experiments in performing gender-play in theaters, galleries, and clubs.
Featuring conversations, essays, drawings and photographs, Bodies of Knowledge(Ed. Laura Purseglove) reflects and builds on an interdisciplinary project involving artists, amateur and professional dancers, wrestlers, members of a trans community group and academic researchers interrogating how our bodies are both produced by and productive of knowledges.
An evening with artists readings of extracts from significant books held in LADA’s Study Room. Part of LADA at 20.
Video documentation of the book launch, as part of LADA Screens. Includes 4 videos.
Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture.
The first substantial survey of its kind, the publication brings together documentation of performances, drawings, videos, installations, and sculptures, as well as writings, interviews and visual essays by the artist. A series of commissioned critical essays show her to be a prolific maker of acts, objects, and multiple ‘selves’.
15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Follows two nurses, both named Jackie, who create biographical slideshows for patients as a tool for reflection on posthumous digital legacies, withdrawal, friendships, cultural and social loss, and memory as identity.
Part of LADA Screens 11. The film was available online 16-29 May 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel. Includes a compilation of episodes 1 – 7, split into two files.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
. An introduction to performance in the territory of art: far from proposing a linear history, the volume offers a series of thematic and transversal approaches to performance.
In Spanish.
A short video derived from the photographs, rehearsal footage and other documentation of And I – a single channel eight-hour video of Marcia Farquhar speaking without edits of sustained pauses.
Part of LADA Screens 7.The film was availble online between 24 Feb and 9 March on the LADA Screens Channel.