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Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution

Artist/Author: Dario Gamboni | Reference: P3452 | ISBN: 978-1861893161 | Type: Publication

Initially galvanized by the sweeping obliteration of architecture and art under the Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and eastern bloc countries, Gamboni investigates other instances of destroyed art and architecture around the globe, uncovering a disquieting and surprisingly widespread phenomenon.

Radio Ballet

Artist/Author: LIGNA | Reference: D2289 | Type: DVD

Around 500 participants – usual radio listeners, no dancers or actors – were invited to enter the Leipzig train station, equipped with cheap, portable radios and earphones. By means of these devices they could listen to a radio program consisting of a choreography suggesting permitted and forbidden gestures (to beg, to sit or lie down on the floor etc.). 

Refugee Camp for the First World Citizens

Artist/Author: FWC | Reference: D2278 | Type: DVD

A project based on a hypotethical (hypothetical and ethical) situation (political, social, military, security, natural catastrophy …) in which the citizens of highly developed countries (mainly from the West) would be forced to leave their country and look for a temporary home in another country.

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

Creative Prison

Artist/Author: squint/opera | Reference: D2285 | Type: DVD

A film showing the imagined interior of a prison, sculptures by prisoners on themes of rehabilitation.

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

Os it My Body? - Selected Texts

Artist/Author: Kim Gordon | Editor: Branden W. Joseph | Reference: P3232 | ISBN: 978-3956790386 | Type: Publication

Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Gordon produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts place her writing within the context of the artist-critics of her generation.

Pentagon Petal programme

Reference: P3243 | Type: Publication

Programme for the installation project by artist Fran Cottell and architect Marianne Mueller, reflecting on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground as the dream site for Jeremy Bentham's experimental panopticon, the real Millbank Penitentiary, a military parade ground and now university campus, outdoor gallery and thoroughfare to Tate Britain. 
 

Entr’acte: Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture

Editor: Jordan Geiger | Reference: P3170 | ISBN: 978-1-349-49280-0 | Type: Publication

Generally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr’acte delivers a fleeting new purpose and event to the otherwise sometimes inert space between stage and pit. This collection employs the entr’acte as a model for conceptualizing emerging formations of publics and of public space.

Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics

Editor: Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson | Reference: P3132 | ISBN: 978-0520285491 | Type: Publication

One of the first comprehensive treatments of land use in contemporary art, the collection surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

Personal Shopper: A Kirkgate Market Mis-Giude

Editor: Etheridge & Persighetti | Reference: P3072 | ISBN: 978-0-9932664-9-2 | Type: Publication

Artists Katie Etheridge & Simon Persighetti team up with shoppers, traders and market enthusiasts to create a pick and mix selection of ways to navigate and explore the market as trading place, social space and playing space. The Mis-Guide was originally produced for Compass Festival.