Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture.

Anthology of scores, scripts, instructions, diagrams and documentation of art works that are meant to be heard. 

Documents an international artistic research project initiated by Norwegian Theatre Academy/Østfold University College. 

25 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery – for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics.

Based on the results of an anonymous survey sent to more than 8,000 galleries in the US, UK, and Germany, this is an insightful examination of the business of selling art.

The revival of documentary in art, considered in historical, theoretical, and contemporary contexts.

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

Tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform.

Interview with Jacques Rancière.

Postcards made on the occasion of the gallery's 20th birthday.

Reflections on how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us.

Includes interviews, dialogues and critical writing on art and politics. In French.

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

Explores sites where the ideal of community relentlessly recurs, from debates over art and culture in the popular media, to the discourses and practices of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, to contemporary narratives of economic transformation or “globalization.” 

Images from solo and performances made as part of Artifacts.

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

Eight short videos from 2003. Includes: Whirl-Mart, Virgin on the Ridiculous, Prayers to Products, Cleaning the MCA, Taking 'Back' Action, UK Stop Shopping Tour, Re-Call Cup Fault, Cleaning Wall St

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

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

Volume 1, Issue 4.

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

Celebrating curiosity and adventure, the book explores the obsessions, achievements and failures of lesser-known but utterly remarkable individuals who exemplify the human spirit through their stories of invention, trickery, subversion and survival.

Existing in the space between imaginative proposition and a call to action, the book is an assemblage of provocations, proposals and potential ways of operating
 — ranging from navigating the city and inhabiting the margins to errant acts of reading; from preparing for the unexpected 
to learning how to ‘not know’, from minor acts of singular sedition to collective expressions of an insurgent ‘we’.

Four interviews and ten essays, case studies, manifestos and anti-manifestos by theatre makers, curators, critics, and scholars, presenting various examples of audience participation in theatre and linking them to problems of participation in democracy and to socially engaged art.

Exhibition catalogue: The Rochester Contemporary, 30/4-23/5 2004. Includes reproductions of artwork, critical essays and fiction. 

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

A revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. 

Video.

While spinning her naked, masked body on a stage to Chaka Khan’s famous anthem, Narcissister redresses herself from clothing she pulls out of various bodily orifices. 

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Beginning with discussions of the pioneering generation of artists such as Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling, Chambers candidly discusses the problems and progression of several generations, including contemporary artists such as Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare. 

Documentation from the LAUK Gathering, at Watershed, Bristol on 12 February 2015. The Gathering considered the idea of the Storm as a metaphor for change.

Published in France in 1965, the book reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. More than forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early-twentieth century avant-garde. Translated by Sharmila Ganguly.

Escandalario was the failed dream of an art gallery. The author revives the name in a book that critically reviews the involvement of artists in México in 3 basic economic activities of the free-market system: production; distribution and consumption of art. Contains a very helpful bibliography on the subject.

The book assembles the work of 136 different collectives and artists, both Mexican and foreign, who created some 200 works in Mexico City over the period of a decade. Texts: Cuauhtémoc Medina, Edgar Hernández, Inbal Miller, Patricia Sloane, Guillermo Santamarina. Bilingual edition.

This book is an investigation of how the use of petroleum, in every aspect of our lives, limits our capacities to think about surviving climate breakdown, and how it shapes the things we do and inhibits our capacities to think future ways out of it. Pocket-size book. 

A discussion dealing with the topics of art in the Croatian educational context. Interviewees Dijana Curkovic, Hrvoje Juric, Martina Kontosic, Andreja Kuluncic, Zdravko Popovic, Izvor Rukavina talk about their experiences of self-organisation in the field of institutional education and the role of art in education. 

A conversation between the founders of Artleaks platform as an example of an organization of artistic workers struggling against exploitation, together with the limitations which such coming together into an association necessarily implies, from the difficulty of union organizing of the so-called creative workers to the lack of political force that would press for the transformation of social relations.

The book encompasses unusual and cutting-edge foods, radical dining events, “kitchen laboratory” experiments, food sculptures and other documentation of the transient moments that make up this field of experimentation', as well as a study of the connections between dining, theatre and ritual, and a survey of recent research in science and technology, and how this may impact on how we make, eat and perceive food.

Take The Money And Run? was an event about ethics, funding and art that took place at Toynbee Studios, London on January 29, 2015 – a day of presentations and discussion hosted by three organisations, Live Art Development Agency, Artsadmin, Home Live Art and produced in collaboration with Platform. This is Mary Paterson commissioned written response to the event.

This publication outlines strategic plans for inclusive art practices.

The Disagree. magazine is a result of the cooperation between a changing group of artists, curators, and theoreticians operating fully independently.  They join forces under the name of the Disagree. Art assembly.  Those who write for the Disagree. magazine automatically become part of the editing team and thus of the assembly.  The editors of the first issue are Jeff Poak, Jean Gotthard, Harald Pogel, Nazim Besikci, Jana Tupivic, Anna Siegel.

This report defines practical steps and frameworks for good practice of collaboration between visual artists, publicly-funded institutions, communities and audiences.

Catalogue of a practice-based research project under the direction of Paul Heritage that aims to create a live and interactive exhibition illustrating and investigating how young people transform their worlds through the arts.

The essential practical handbook for all those involved in, or studying, the dynamic field of curating

This publication charts very different tactics and strategies, written by practitioners from all over the world, mapping the broad field of engaged art and artistic activism in our times. Essays by Stephen Duncombe & Steve Lambert, Alanna Lockward, Florian Malzacher, Chantal Mouffe, Gerald Raunig and Jonas Staal.

Article analysing how art approaches and resists the capitalist appropriation of power and creation. 

In this publication, Platform draw together three compelling arguments for the withdrawal from BP-funding.

A compilation of several interviews in which the artist discussses her personal history and some of the many creative collaborations.

How 1960s African American artists and many of their sympathetic peers addressed the struggle for racial justice in powerful works of art is examined across a pivotal decade.

Overview of 'unseen' works by Ana Mendieta

An intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien , looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influences that shaped them. Contributors: Cynthia Rose, Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

The exhibition presented in this catalogue was inspired by an unexpected incident. A tree fell on the Finnish Aalto Pavilion in 2011 and the exhibition had to be closed. What was originally an inconvenience became a source of inspiration for three curators from Finland. Falling Trees by Mika Elo, Marko Karo and Harri Laakso revisits this disruption of an art event and creates an opportunity to see art and nature differently.