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Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater

Editor: Karen Raber, Monica Mattfeld | Reference: P3704 | ISBN: 978-0271078342 | Type: Publication

In exploring the human-animal relationship from the early modern period to the nineteenth century, this publication questions what it means for an animal to “perform,” examines how conceptions of this relationship have evolved over time, and explores whether and how human understanding of performance is changed by an animal’s presence.

A Dog Named Jimmy: The Social Media Sensation

Artist/Author: Rafael Mantesso | Reference: P3702 | ISBN: 978-0525429623 | Type: Publication

A definitive selection of new and classic images of Jimmy, which includes the backstory of how the two became such great collaborators.

Crap Taxidermy

Artist/Author: Kat Su | Reference: P3701 | ISBN: 978-1844038039 | Type: Publication

The very best of the worst stuffed animals are brought together in one full-colour volume; with additional features including a DIY ‘Stuff Your Own Mouse’ lesson, and an author’s introduction to the craze for getting stuffed.

The Book of the Bird: Birds in Art

Artist/Author: Angus Hyland | Reference: P3707 | ISBN: 978-1780677507 | Type: Publication

Celebrates the bird in art with an elegant, international collection of paintings, illustrations and photographs, featuring all kinds of birds from the smallest tits and wrens to colourful exotics.

Heart of a Dog

Artist/Author: Laurie Anderson | Reference: D2304 | Type: DVD

A cinematic journey through love, death and language. 

75 minutes.

The Day of the Duck

Artist/Author: Helen Stratford & Lawrence Bradby | Reference: P3683 | ISBN: 9780993337338 | Type: Publication

Explores Englishness, pseudo public space and what it is to be considered an unwelcome migratory visitor in contemporary Britain through the eyes of a particularly pesky Muscovy duck.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Antennae 10: A Decade of Art and the Non-Human 07-17

Editor: Giovanni Aloi | Reference: P3660 | ISBN: 978-9198385601 | Type: Publication

Since 2007, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture has been the international reference point of the non-human turn in the visual arts. This volume gathers the richest interviews and the most thought-provoking essays featured over its forty installments thus far published.

The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us

Artist/Author: Adam Rutherford | Reference: P3657 | ISBN: 978-0297609407 | Type: Publication

This original and entertaining tour of life on Earth explores how many of the things once considered to be exclusively human are not: we are not the only species that communicates, makes tools, utilises fire, or has sex for reasons other than to make new versions of ourselves. Evolution has, however, allowed us to develop our culture to a level of complexity that outstrips any other observed in nature.

When Species Meet

Artist/Author: Donna J. Haraway | Reference: P3658 | ISBN: 978-0816650460 | Type: Publication

Contemplates the interactions of humans with many kinds of critters, especially with those called domestic.

Be Your Dog

Artist/Author: Angela Bartram | Digital Reference: EF5262 | Type: Digital File

Documentation from the DIY 13 project.

Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience

Artist/Author: Lindsay Kelley | Reference: P3324 | ISBN: 978-1784534134 | Type: Publication

Explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a more inclusive, expansive history of bioart, namely: home economics; the feminist art of the 1970s; tissue culture methodologies; domestic computing; and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.

The Do-It-Yourself Cookbook

Artist/Author: Kim Waldron | Reference: P3311 | ISBN: 978-2-9813724-0-6 | Type: Publication

Published on the occasion of Beautiful Creatures at Oboro, March 9 – April 13, 2013.

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

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