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Theatre for Beginners

Artist/Author: Richard Maxwell | Reference: P2721 | ISBN: 978-1559364867 | Type: Publication

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.

The Illuminated Theatre: Studies on the Suffering of Images

Artist/Author: Joe Kelleher | Reference: P2722 | ISBN: 978-0415748278 | Type: Publication

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.

Documenta X – Short Guide

Editor: Françoise Joly, Cornelia Barth, Jutta Buness, Brian Holmes. | Reference: P2029 | ISBN: 3893229388 | Type: Publication

Programme and documentation of the work presented on the 10th edition of the festival in Kassel, Germany. Includes exhibition booklet.

Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics

Artist/Author: Shannon Jackson | Reference: P1585 | Type: Publication

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).

Encountering Art

Artist/Author: Dave Beech | Reference: A0313 | Type: Article

Review of Jacques Ranciere’s The Emancipated Spectator

Performance Matters Launch Event

Artist/Author: Various | Reference: D1319 | Type: DVD

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).

Performance Matters - Performing Idea Laboratory - Part Three

Artist/Author: Adrian Heathfield and Dominic Johnson | Reference: D2104 | Type: DVD

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).

Performance Matters - Performing Idea Laboratory - Part Two

Artist/Author: Fabrizio Manco, Jungmin Song, Terry O'Connor, Mathias Danbolt, R. Justin Hunt, Victoria Chalklin, Oriana Fox, Augusto Corrieri, Owen Parry | Reference: D2104 | Type: DVD

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).

Dingo - A Treatment Towards a New Communionism

Artist/Author: André Stitt | Reference: P1148 | ISBN: 978-1-920781-36-1 | Type: Publication

Book documenting the work presented at the gallery Artspace, Sydney, in which for 3 days the artist remains locked in a cage with a Dingo. Engaging with the themes of Joseph Beuys’ work, Stitt provides a reflection on acts of arrival and colonial encounter in relation to aesthetic activity and cultural dialogue.

Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance

Artist/Author: various | Editor: Judith Rugg & Michele Sedgwick | Reference: P1006 | ISBN: 978-1-84150-162-8 | Type: Publication

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).

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