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Incarcerated Freedom

Artist/Author: Lindsey Harman | Reference: D2282

Images from Portal of Entry, a theatrical deconstruction of the Valley's sex industry told through the voices of prostituted women and their interviewer. Part of the thesis project Incarcerated Freedom.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Letters from the State of Chihuahua - archive

Artist/Author: Angela Giron | Reference: D2257 | Type: DVD

Includes production stills and performance text.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Letters from the State of Chihuahua - video

Artist/Author: Angela Giron | Reference: D2256 | Type: DVD

Documentation from the performance at the ASU mainstage.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Clemency

Artist/Author: Carol Jacobsen | Reference: D2261 | Type: DVD

11 battered women prisoners serving life for killing in self defense narrate a collective, painful story of injustice.
15 minutes.Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Performing Communities: Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted in Eight U.S. Communities

Editor: Robert H. Leonard | Reference: P3295 | ISBN: 978-0976605447 | Type: Publication

Profiles established ensemble groups from inner-city Los Angeles, small-town northern California, African-American South, multicultural southern Texas, low-income central Appalachia, economically struggling South Bronx New York, and cross-continental Native America.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun

Artist/Author: Wafaa Bilal, Kari Lydersen | Reference: P3266 | ISBN: 978-0872864917 | Type: Publication

The project received overwhelming worldwide attention and spawned provocative online debates; ultimately, Bilal was named Chicago Tribune’s Artist of the Year. Structured in two parallel narratives, the story of Bilal’s life journey and his Domestic Tension experience, Shoot an Iraqi is for anyone who seeks insight into the current conflict in Iraq and for those fascinated by interactive art technologies and the ever-expanding world of online gaming.

Dennis Oppenheim: Body Performance 1969 -73

Artist/Author: Nick Kaye and Amy van Winkle Oppenheim | Reference: P3064 | ISBN: 978-8857230320 | Type: Publication

The monograph follows the studio practice, public performance works, and gallery and museum shows that took place between 1969–1973 in which documentation of conceptual performance works in slide, film, video, and photographic form exhibited alone or as a component of installation.

Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments

Editor: Amber E. Kinser, Kryn Freehling-Burton, Terri Hawkes | Reference: P3033 | ISBN: 978-1927335925 | Type: Publication

Highlighting mothers’ lived experiences, this collection examines mothers’ creativity and agency as they perform in everyday life: in mothering, in activism, and in the arts.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

Theatre and Empire

Artist/Author: Benjamin Poore | Reference: P3022 | ISBN: 978-1137443069 | Type: Publication

The historical age of empires may be over, but empire, as an idea, continues to exercise a hold over our imaginations. This examination begins with potential definitions and theories of empire, suggesting how we might think of these two notions together and how we might see empire itself as theatre.