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Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

Artist/Author: Ron Athey | Editor: Dominic Johnson | Reference: P2115 | ISBN: 978-1-78320-035-1 | Type: Publication

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey presents the first critical overview of this major artist’s work. It demonstrates how Athey foresaw and precipitated the central place afforded they body and identity politics in art and critical theory in the 1990s and beyond.

Performing Endurance: Art and Politics since 1960

Artist/Author: Lara Shalson | Reference: P3716 | ISBN: 978-1108426459 | Type: Publication

Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present, as well as protest actions from the lunch counter sit-ins of the US civil rights movement to protest camps in the twenty-first century, this book provides a formal account of endurance and illuminates its ethical and political significance.

Performance art’s “master” Tehching Hsieh on the importance of isolation

Artist/Author: Bryony Stone | Reference: A0830 | Type: Article

An interview conducted at LADA’s new home in the Garrett Centre, Bethnal Green attempts to find out why the artist gave over his life to art.

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Editor: Eleonora Fabião, André Lepecki | Reference: P3555 | ISBN: 978-85-69099-02-4 | Type: Publication

A chronology of actions she performed between 2008 and 2015. The book was made in a limited edition, to be given, received, traded, lost, found, purposely lost lost, donated lent, passed on – and never sold.

British Art: Defining the 90s

Editor: Nicola Kearton | Reference: P3545 | ISBN: 978-1854902290 | Type: Publication

Highlights the various aspects of particular interest and activity which make the British scene distinctive and exciting. 

Repetition in Performance: Returns and Invisible Forces

Artist/Author: Eirini Kartsaki | Reference: P3429 | ISBN: 978-1137430533 | Type: Publication

While considering repetition in relation to the difficult pleasures we derive from the theatre, this book explores ways of accounting for such experiences of theatre in memory and writing.

Boris Charmatz

Editor: Ana Janevski | Reference: P3425 | ISBN: 978-1633450066 | Type: Publication

Whether he’s creating a dance composed solely of everyday actions, working with an ensemble of children, or running a “dancing museum,” Charmatz’s work experiments with the body as a vessel for subjectivity, history, and collective action. 

Disobedient Theatre Alternative Ways to Inspire, Animate and Play

Artist/Author: Chris Johnston | Reference: P3421 | ISBN: 978-1350014541 | Type: Publication

Divided into two parts, `In the World’ and `In the Room’, the book presents a rounded picture of the possibilities of a `disobedient’ culture and includes many games and exercises for creative practitioners.

Choreo-Graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line

Editor: Nikolaus Gansterer, Emma Cocker and Mariella Greil | Reference: P3322 | ISBN: 978-3110546606 | Type: Publication

Stages a beyond-disciplinary, inter-subjective encounter between the lines of choreography, drawing and writing, for exploring those forms of thinking-feeling-knowing produced through collaborative exchange, in the slippage and deviation as different modes of practice enter into dialogue, overlap, collide.