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Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983
Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification.
Long Suffering: American Endurance Art as Prophetic Witness
Links avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic, religious discourse in the United States
Refugee Performance: Practical Encounters
Exploring theater works created for, by, and with refugees, this hybrid collection of essays combines newly commissioned scholarly work with examples of writing by refugees themselves.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Performance Lab: Ron Athey at Stanford University
Review of Athey’s Messianic Remains at the Performance studies International symposium.
Queer
Part of Whitechapel Gallery’s Documents of Contemporary Art series, a collection of anthologies which collect writing on major themes and ideas in contemporary art. This is the first anthology to bring together artist’s writings and conversations about queer practice, describing and examining the ways in which they have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action and as a basis from which to declare inassimilable difference.
Fever: Art of David Wojnarowicz
Published in conjunction with a major retrospective of the artist’s work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, January – April 1999. Includes excerpts from Wojnarowicz’s writings and essays by Dan Cameron, Mysoon Rizk, C. Carr and John Carlin.
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
This volume collects four tales interspersed with ink drawings by the artist which illustrate his memoirs on gay love, memory and desire in contemporary America.
Pepe Espaliu
Monograph. Includes artworks and writings by Pepe Espaliu, introductory essay by Juan V. Aliaga, with additional essays by Adrian Searle and Marie-Laure Bernadac.
Leigh Bowery - The Life and Times of an Icon
A biography and tribute to a colourful unique and larger than life character, written by his close friend, Sue Tilley.
Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology
This book and the exhibition launched with it represent a powerful exploration in both image and text of the impact of the AIDS crisis. Different voices reveal the profound inadequacies in our attitudes to disease.
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
A collection of creative essays — a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the Fear of Diversity in America.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
A look at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.
