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Trans Time: Time for trans visibility in contemporary art
On three artists taking part in the Trans Time exhibition at Confluences Gallery in Paris: JJ Levine, Kama La Mackerel, and Ianna Book.
Swimming in Sewage: Political performances in the Mediterranean
This article narrates and analyses three instances of swimming in the Beirut sea as political performances.
Oceanic Geographies: The fluid dramaturgy of Caridad Svich
Looking back on the experience of directing the world premiere of Svich's play at the University of Missouri.
Confronting the Institution in Performance: Liberate Tate’s Hidden Figures
Weaves together the various voices for the art collective to offer readers both an analysis and an experience of the group’s performance: the inner voice of the performance; the critical voice of the witness; and the frustrating redactions reflecting Tate and BP’s hidden contracts.
Job Centre Junior
Newspaper accompanying the performance installation which focuses on how policy change directly affects low income families through austerity measures that sanction welfare claimants and push people into vulnerable positions. Includes interviews and performance script.
The Concrete Body: Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci
Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body.
ART IN CONTEXT: Learning from the Field
21 passionate statements from practitioners in the field of participatory art from Myanmar, Japan, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. Their contributions help to define a complex practice, that takes many forms and is called by many names, but is united by a spirit of giving, receiving and reciprocating in art-making.
Does it Work?: The Æffect of Activist Art
Starting with the questions: Does it Work? and How Can We Know? this article explores the effect and affect, or affect, of activist art.
Entr’acte: Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture
Generally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr’acte delivers a fleeting new purpose and event to the otherwise sometimes inert space between stage and pit. This collection employs the entr’acte as a model for conceptualizing emerging formations of publics and of public space.
A Good Night Out: Popular Theatre; Audience, Class and Form
The classic manifesto on popular theatre by the founder of the 7:84 Theatre Companies. Looking at the ways different classes take their entertainment, he puts the case for what theatre could be doing for the populace instead of walling itself up in subsidised fortresses for the well-to-do.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)
