Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of “vectors of the radical” shape the avant-garde.
One to One performance that takes place in a public café and explores surveillance and profiling in “the war on terror.” The eight minute video includes an interview with the artist.
A study of installation art, from its marginalized beginnings in the late 1950s to its central position in today’s art world.
Playing cards, for a performance/card game in which players are dealt body parts instead of numbers in suit. Players will combine their own cards and reproduce the combinations with their own body. When a combination is impossible to be made alone the player may borrow a part of someone else’s body to be able to continue to play.
In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. By including performances regardless of their country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals the breathtaking variety of practices used in performance work today.
Explores attention structures that invite one-to-one encounters in digitally informed practice.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project, setting and testing ways of getting together to show unfinished work.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project.
Publicaition in honor of the 10th anniversary of FemLink-Art.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Exploring the ritual / performance / intervention that marks the tattoo-receivers journey from birth in parallel with the rise in carbon emissions that cause climate change.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
While considering repetition in relation to the difficult pleasures we derive from the theatre, this book explores ways of accounting for such experiences of theatre in memory and writing.
Exhibition catalogue: Intensity of Affect: performances, actions, installations – retrospective of Zoran Todorovic. Accompanies the project, Warmth, at the the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, held in Venice, at the Serbian Pavilion, June 7-Nov. 22, 2009.
In Serbian and English.
The aim of this book is to offer perspectives on performance art practice with a focus on teaching. This subject has rarely been approached in the literature and this book gives insights and inspiration for all those teaching performance art as well as to anyone else interested in this art form.
Whether he’s creating a dance composed solely of everyday actions, working with an ensemble of children, or running a “dancing museum,” Charmatz’s work experiments with the body as a vessel for subjectivity, history, and collective action.
Textbook from the performance / social experiment. The audience (a.k.a participants) underwent several stages of assessments to decide who remained in the experiment, and who was liberated from it. By the end, only one participant was crowned “LGB”. Presented during the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2016.
Divided into two parts, `In the World’ and `In the Room’, the book presents a rounded picture of the possibilities of a `disobedient’ culture and includes many games and exercises for creative practitioners.
Explores the proposition presented by the incredible task of suspending a body from helium balloons, the relationship between the performer and the space, the object and the viewer, the possible and the impossible.
A collection of essays, documents, & bibiliography reagrding performance art edited by people associated with a Toronto-based arts organization.
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.
How do disabled people experience theatre, as both audience members and performers? How has the institution of theatre responded to disability over time? How can we create new spaces for performance and attend to different communities’ forms of expression?
How does protest engage with theatre? What does theatre have to gain from protest?
10 practitioners from different backgrounds reflect on the broad themes of participation, audience, criticality and writing in a series of short essays and provocations inspired by their own practice and numerous works in Compass Festival 2014.
Includes: It’s an Earthquake in My Heart: Reading Companion; The Sea & Poison: Reading Companion; North True South Free; The Lastmaker
A community based Human Rights Education project that uses theatre to engage young people from culturally diverse populations in dialogue about human rights with the Montreal community. Includes promotional material and photos of phases 1 and 2 and evaluation of phase 2.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Live action.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Along term project involving multiple appearances of the Snow White character in a large number of unique events.
Documentation of three 2004 performances: Morsang sur Orge (France), Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain (France) and Arsenic Theatre (Switzerland).
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Documentation from two performances, presented at Brisbane Arts (2007) and MAJU JAYA Performance Art Festival (2007).
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Unedited documentation of the 2006 street action. Part of TARIDS, Ispwich.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The first in-depth sourcebook in English on the compant, providing first-hand accounts of the development of its collectivist practices and ideals.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, held at the NGBK Berlin, from November, 4th to December 23rd 2005. In German and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Published on the occasion of Beautiful Creatures at Oboro, March 9 – April 13, 2013.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski’s long and multi-faceted career.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Despite the problematic politics of cultural exchange in the theatre, interculturalism is not a one-sided process. Using the metaphor of the hourglass to discuss the transfer between source and target culture, Pavis asks what happens when the hourglass is turned upside down, when the `foreign’ culture speaks for itself.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Published to coincide with the launch of Public Art Now, a programme of events and discussions which explore new forms and approaches to public art.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR).
This textual and pictorial reader is more than just documentation of an art project. It combines contributions by theorists and a photocomic created from the original project’s texts and visuals by Dejan Dragosavac Ruta to reflect on the proposition of Janez Janša’s eponymous project.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.
A polemical thinking-through of the whole concept of theatre as a ‘space’, and a politically motivated exploration of how, and where, that theatrical space meets the real world that surrounds and suffuses it.
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.
The first book to provide a collection of key writings about the process of documenting performance, focused not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance.
Book review.
Collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre.
Explains the concept of the trans-spectator using the Slovenian theatre group performance (Would Would Not, 2005) as an example.
On Project O’s performances at the Forest Fringe Microfestival, Progress Festival, Theatre Centre, Toronto, Canada, February 2016
The article examines the appearance of the term ‘charismatic space’ in relation to Marina Abramović’s retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2010.
Citing Howells’ permissive mantra as its title, the book includes new writing from leading scholars and artists, as well as writing by Howells himself, an extensive interview, scores, and visual materials, which together offer new insight into the artist’s ground-breaking process.
The two live artists engage in a playful, theatre-inspired dialogue (complete with stage directions) in which they discuss their complicated relationships, working within theatre institutions.
Exhibition catalogue; comprises essays and a section containing documents, hitherto unpublished interviews and a gallery discussion. Exhibition: 27 January – 1 May 2017, Museum Tinguely, Basel.