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.
Resisting the control of the image, transcending from the 2-dimensional, practicing being-a-body-in-the-world.
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).
A motivational handbook, filled with inspired visions of a wild, creative, Earth-led cultural revolution.
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.
The archive-book of the 1978-1982 works of performance artist Antonio Syxty, active in Milan in connection with the basement theatre Out Off.
On the process and politics of live critical responses to a live stream of Forced Entertainment’s And on a Thousandth Night.
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.
An extract of an action performed in Peru as part of CAUTION in July 2011.
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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.
A critical discussion of the public sphere in the current neoliberal capitalist democracy from the perspective of performance.
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.
A catalog of work from a 2014 exhibit by Jamie McMurry entitled “Above Snakes”
Collage of printed images on book by the DIY 11 workshop participants with the artist.
Four parts documentation of a piece exploring repetitive ritual, within a framework of noise and projected through a semi constructed physical structure. Presented in the context of “Fem Fresh” (Sunday 8 June 2014), a collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London and the Live Art Development Agency, featuring presentations and dialogues on, about, and around feminism and age in Live Art.
A collection of courses and syllabi for reference when teaching performance and live art practices.
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer explores one of Lee Lozano’s most challenging and elusive works, ‘Dropout Piece’.
A retelling the history of art practice and exposing the ways in which neoliberal norms and values have seeped into every aspect of our lives.
Artist portfolio including artist statement, selected projects, catalogues, images and DVD preview video sample copy.
Channel 4 documentary; part of an event at the ICA in collaboration with the arts collective DHSS.
Can also be found in the Access all Areas : Live Art and Disability book and accompanying DVD: P1864
A Girl Skipping was devised and premiered in 1990.
Programme for Verb an annual performance festival dedicated to performance by artists from Brazil and the rest of the world. partnership with the Centro Cultural São Paulo and FUNARTE. Language: English and Portuguese. (The programme features descriptions of the actions in the original language and in English).
Documentation of pieces created 1999 – 2011: Wrong Bodies, Sealo the Sealboy, Kiss, Everything You Wanted to Know about Access in the City, Talidomida boy, Thalidomide!! A Musical, The Arms Striptease, Beauty and the Beast, No Retreat, No Surrender, and The Incurables of England, Gawd Bless ‘Em Down to Hell,
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
7 Weeks, 7 Residencies, 7 Ways to Activate Change.
Obituary/reflection on Jerzy Grotowski who died in January 1999. (see Paul Allain’s obituary of Grotowski in Total Theatre, Vol. 11, No. 1 – A0407)
This publication from the artists and curators VestAndPage investigates the intimate tissue of creativity, questioning performance art as urgency.
Review of Mirza & Butler’s project.
This formative piece was made on one of Long’s journeys to St Martin’s from his home in Bristol.
Explores the expanded concept of art as understood by Beuys. This ‘battery of ideas’ includes a series of short contributions from artists, specialists and commentators.
This disk does not work on a dvd player. It should be opened as a data containing disk through the Finder on a Mac computer.
Includes project, interview and making of. English & Greek. For homonymous publication see REF. P1214.
Video documentation. For exhibition catalogues see REF. P1205.
Documentation of the work of Mohamed Abdulla. mov, pdf and ppt files.
Video documentation of the work/actions carried out by the theatre/performance group (Academy of Movement) in the public space of the city. The subject covers the group’s highly diverse, interdisciplinary activity in the social environment, including stage shows, gallery presentations, street actions and activities in the various planes of urban space, cultural animation, workshop and publications. Accompanying publication REF. P1167Polish and English.
Text accompanying DVD see REF. D1124, Polish with English translation. A documentation of the work/actions carried out by the theatre/performance group Akademia Ruchu (Academy of Movement) in the public space of the city.
Catalogue documenting McMurry’s oeuvre and writings
Analyses the dramatic works of modern German, American, English, French, and Spanish writers within their historical and cultural contexts.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide in Search of a Documentology by Marco Pustianaz (P1115)
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
featuring 14 artists performances and installation work
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Collection of seminal essays, interviews and performance texts by and about Happenings and Fluxus artists. Includes the 1965 Happenings issue of TDR (The Drama Review) edited by Michael Kirby. This item is part of the Study Room Guide: A Bi(bli)ography of Insurrectionary Imaginati by John Jordan (P0793) and the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)