Groys explores art in the age of the thingless medium, the internet. He claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura, digital production generates aura without objects, transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present.
Performing Borders: A Study Room Guide on physical and conceptual borders within Live Art.
An overview of Poro: Brazilian company engaged in poetic, ironic and political actions. In Portuguese and English.
This publication is referenced in the Platform Study Room Guide (P1820)
An artwork and body of research by Tanya Raabe.. An accompanying audio CD of interviews from the live sitting is also available in the Study Room. Ref: D1855
Aaron Williamson, An Introduction to the Essays in Parallel Lines, by Colin Cameron (A0482), Lennard J. Davis (A0481), Ine Gevers (A0480), Joseph Grigley (A0479), Georgina Kleege (A0478), Juliet Robson (A0477), Yinka Shonibare (A0476).
A publication that sets out to discuss oil sponsorship of the arts. Part of the Platform Study Room Guide (P1820).
Tavia Nyong’o and Tania Bruguera in conversation.
Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.
Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.
Chin-tao Wu, Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980s- Platform Study Room Guide (P1820)
CIRCA (Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland), See also, Brutal Silences Study Room Guide, catalogue ref. no. P1661.
Exhibition catalogue. Curated by MA Gallery Studies and Critical Curating students at the University of Essex. 30 April-11 June 2011.