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Final Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles

Editor: Brian Getnick, Tanya Rubbak | Reference: P4196 | ISBN: 9781838022945 | Type: Publication

Final Transmission is a book of intergenerational dialogue between artists, scholars and activists about what it means to transfer the skills, ideas and mysteries of performance through pandemic and crises.

The book is the final edition of NS, Brian Getnick and Tanya Rubbak’s 6 volume archive of performance art and community in Los Angeles.

David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night

Editor: David Breslin, David Kiehl | Reference: P3715 | ISBN: 978-0300221886 | Type: Publication

Comprehensively examines the life and art of David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), who came to prominence in New York’s East Village art world of the 1980s, actively embracing all media and forging an expansive range of work both fiercely political and highly personal.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz

Editor: Lisa Darms and David O'Neill | Reference: P3662 | ISBN: 9781635900170 | Type: Publication

At the height of the AIDS epidemic, Wojnarowicz began keeping audio journals, returning to a practice he'd begun in his youth. The publication presents transcripts of these tapes, documenting the artist's turbulent attempts to understand his anxieties and passions, and tracking his thoughts as they develop in real time.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep

Artist/Author: Neil Bartlett | Digital Reference: EF5242 | Type: Digital File

One-man homage to the defiant life and work of pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon.

Includes performance video and a post-show discussion.

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times

Artist/Author: Jasbir K Puar | Reference: P1532 | ISBN: 978-0822341147 | Type: Publication

Argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism.