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Artistic Bedfellows: Histories, Theories and Conversations in Collaborative Art Practices
A collection of historical essays, critical papers, case studies, interviews, and comments from scholars and practitioners that shed new light on the field of collaborative art.
Prayer for the Abstract
Resisting the control of the image, transcending from the 2-dimensional, practicing being-a-body-in-the-world.
Grey Matters
Documentation from the DIY13 project: a collective process of devising and then performing a public action, over the course of a weekend.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The Earth Wants YOU
A motivational handbook, filled with inspired visions of a wild, creative, Earth-led cultural revolution.
Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience
Explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a more inclusive, expansive history of bioart, namely: home economics; the feminist art of the 1970s; tissue culture methodologies; domestic computing; and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.
Syxty Sorriso & Altre Storie
The archive-book of the 1978-1982 works of performance artist Antonio Syxty, active in Milan in connection with the basement theatre Out Off.
Towards a Poiesis of Critical Practice: 1000th LIVE and the politics of appearance
On the process and politics of live critical responses to a live stream of Forced Entertainment’s And on a Thousandth Night.
VERBO 2005-2015
An overview of the first 10 years of the VERBO festival, featuring texts by Brazilian and foreign authors.
In Portuguese and English; some text in Spanish.
Rock Action
An extract of an action performed in Peru as part of CAUTION in July 2011.
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Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists
This book brings to light the historical significance of five women artists – Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and Shigeko Kubota, who were among the first Japanese women to leave their country – and its male-dominated, conservative art world – to explore the artistic possibilities in New York.
Public Sphere by Performance
A critical discussion of the public sphere in the current neoliberal capitalist democracy from the perspective of performance.
Collective Actions: Audience Recollections from the First Five Years 1976-1981
Active in Moscow since 1976, the Collective Actions group played a key role in the development of conceptual and performance art in the Soviet Union. Inspired by the work of John Cage, the organizers invited audiences to take part in minimal, outdoor actions in fields and forests on the edges of the city that explored the nature of the aesthetic event. The publication concentrates on the early period of field actions when the problems of documentation—how to capture and convey ephemeral action to non-participants—were just beginning to be considered.
