Captures the excitement of a key period in the emergence of postdramatic theatre in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the development, theory and definitive characteristics of a rapidly developing and popular area of practice.
Third issue of the online and printed zine about relationships and configurations in which one person is still while others are not.
On the politics of disinterestedness.
On development of Cunningham's practice.
The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
A collection of essays, documents, & bibiliography reagrding performance art edited by people associated with a Toronto-based arts organization.
Exploration of violence and trauma in needcompany’s Marketplace 76.
Starting from the premise that live performance is experienced in a material, local context, the chapters analyse the intricate and complex workings of queer dramaturgy within specific venues, cities, nations or transnationally.
This collection of essays sheds new light on the political, ethical and aesthetic potential of participatory artworks and tests the very latest theoretical approaches to this subject.
A diverse group of contributors, from art historians, anthropologists, and political theorists to artists, filmmakers, and architects, considers the interaction of politics and the visual in such topics as the political consequences of a photograph taken by an Israeli soldier in a Palestinian house in Ramallah; AIDS activism; images of social suffering in Iran; the “forensic architecture” of claims to truth; and the “Make Poverty History” campaign. Transcending disciplines, they trace a broader image complex whereby politics is brought to visibility through the mediation of specific cultural forms that mix the legal and the visual, the hermeneutic and the technical, the political and the aesthetic.
A book about theatricality and spectatorship in the early twenty-first century. In a wide-ranging analysis that draws upon theatrical, visual and philosophical approaches, it asks how spectators and audiences negotiate the complexities and challenges of contemporary experimental performance arts.
This volume provides students and artists with a deeper understanding of a director and playwright Richard Maxwell's work, aesthetic philosophy, and process for creating theater.
Images and dialogues exploring contemporary art’s engagements with risk.
An interdisciplinary approach to the forms, goals and histories of innovative social practice in both contemporary performance and visual art.
This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).
British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of the “Performance Matters event on 30 April 2010. Evening launch event featuring Walid Raad, Irit Rogoff, Gavin Butt, Adrian Heathfield and Lois Keidan. Four of four (D1316 – D1319).
British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of the “Performance Matters Lab” event, 30 April 2010. The daytime Performance Laboratory shows experimental durational and scheduled performances by some of the PhD researchers associated with the project at Goldsmiths and Roehampton University, Dr Gavin Butt from Goldsmiths, University of London, Prof. Adrian Heathfield from Roehampton University, and Lois Keidan of the Live Art Development Agency. Part three of four (D1316 – D1319).
British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of the “Performance Matters Lab” event, 30 April 2010. The daytime Performance Laboratory shows experimental durational and scheduled performances by some of the PhD researchers associated with the project at Goldsmiths and Roehampton University. The day will feature responses and discussions with invited thinkers around issues of duration, transmission, materiality,process, ideas and value.performance aesthetics, critical theory and cultural studies, Dr Gavin Butt from Goldsmiths, University of London, Prof. Adrian Heathfield from Roehampton University, and Lois Keidan of the Live Art Development Agency. performance aesthetics, critical theory and cultural studies, Dr Gavin Butt from Goldsmiths, University of London, Prof. Adrian Heathfield from Roehampton University, and Lois Keidan of the Live Art Development Agency. Fabrizio Manco, Jungmin Song, Terry O’Connor, Mathias Danbolt, R. Justin Hunt, Victoria Chalklin, Oriana Fox, Augusto Corrieri, Owen ParryPart two of four (D1316 – D1319).
In four thematic sections, a group of contributors consider curation in light of interdisciplinary and emerging practices, examine conceptions of curation as intervention and contestation, and explore curation’s potential to act as a reconsideration of conventional museum spaces.
This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).