Collections of essays with contributions by Aldo Giannotti, Boyan Manchev, Cesare Pietroiusti, David Levine, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Ingrid Hora, Kai van Eikels, Libia Castro/Ólafur Ólafsson, Ligna, Liquid Loft/Chris Haring, Michael Koch, Nina Dick, Olivia Plender, Roman Ondák, San Keller, Tina di Carlo.
Performance artists Leslie Hill and Helen Paris of Curious document their creative processes, performances and audience's responses in a series of illuminating case studies.
Edited conversations addressing ‘unsitely aesthetics’ which refers to a particular aesthetics that has emerged with a mobile and nomadic shift in artistic practices and technologies.
Investigates sound art and its various manifestations through historical, theoretical, polemical and critical analyses of artistic, musical and literary works
Investigates the extent to which performance can represent the ‘unrepresentable’ of trauma.
Examines how contemporary performance practices have been driven by questions of The Real and the consequent political implications of the concept’s disintigrating authority.
Poses questions over the nature of action, identity and the self in the relationship with media forms.
Drawing on archival materials and in-depth interviews, Mayer's book opens up historical, political and cultural vistas to give a full account of feminist filmmaker Sally Potter's career.
A collection of texts by several seminal women performance artists. Holly Hughes – 'World Without End'; Beatrice Roth – 'The Father'; Laurie Anderson – from 'United States'; Karen Finley – 'The Constant State of Desire'; Rachel Rosenthal – 'My Brazil'; Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Robbie McCauley – 'Teenytown'; Leeny Sack – 'The Survivor and the Translator'; Lenora Champagne – 'Getting Over Tom'; Fiona Templeton – 'Strange to Relate'.
Pod3 is an experimental performance installation developed over four days by participants of the Awakenings Festival in collaboration with Back to Back Theatre. Running time 5 minutes.
5 collected articles based on an Arts Council funded research project into ‘scratch’. ‘work-in-progress’ and models of artist support. Also included is a transcript of a public talk at Artsadmin called ‘Making Progress: Questioning the culture of ‘scratch’, 21 March 2013.
Designed to be performed in a sheltered outdoor civic space, Small Metal Objects seeks to realise the inner realm and simultaneously re-interpret the exterior urban environment as a new performance landscape. Running time 45 minutes.
‘Topos’ is a psychographic landscape manifested in singular hermetic worlds, portraits, rituals narratives, thought problems. Topos is a collaborative undertaking of artists as both non-experts and professional pragmatists.
Collection/selection of past works since 2000. Images, power point presentation, CV, biographic statement, review of market stall performance in Toronto by Natalie Loveless as part of International Festival of Performance. Power point presentation of images from ‘In Place of Passing’ project initiated by Conolly and facilitated by Beyond Etc.
Part of the Anna Birch collection ‘Fragments to Monuments’, 1 x book, 3 x DVDs
herst. Theorie Zur Praxis follows the path of the festival (21 September – 14 October 2012) in Austria, by providing reflections, portraits and interviews by or on participants of the festival.
In French with English subtitles. The Society of Spectacle was written and directed by Guy Debord based on his book of the same name. (Simar Films, 1973). 89 minutes.
Part of the Anna Birch collection ‘Fragments to Monuments’, 1 x book, 3 x DVDs
Part of the Anna Birch collection ‘Fragments to Monuments’, 1 x book, 3 x DVDs. Includes DVD
Architectes of Air build Luminaria – monumental installations designed to generate a sense of wonder at the phenomenon of light. Drawing on the influences of traditional architecture, natural and geometric forms, company founder, Alan Parkinson, designs huge pneumatic environments that tour the world.
How do artists and curators imagine the audience in their work? How do they weave a picture of the individual viewer’s mental, physical, and emotional experience into the production of art events and what impact do these conceptions have on the finished artworks or exhibitions? Which new perspectives are useful in explaining the changes that have occurred in the art field and the concomitant new viewing positions? These are some of the questions that are the basis for Imagining the Audience.
Text in Swedish and English.
Performance Film Installation is a new publication designed to mark five years of solo and collaborative performances, films and installations by Natasha Davis, and coinciding with the London premiere of Internal Terrains at Chelsea Theatre as part of Sacred. A diverse range of authors and artists have generously responded to an invitation to provide insights into various aspects of Natasha's practice.
This publication brings together four ways of looking at Glorious, and includes: a short film made in response to six performances of the show; a music video shot in and around Lancaster and Morecambe; a critical overview of the process behind two iterations of the project; and The Glorious Storybook, a collection of essays and images from throughout the process.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as ‘social practice’. Follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic.
Includes: Weaveair (2000); Creatures (1998); Octopus at the Shoreditch Gallery – London (1995 – 2000); M Groisman Dance Co (1997); Transference (1999)
Kalb weaves his impressive historical knowledge of theatre into detailed descriptions of marathon productions he has seen and studied.
Contemporary live art showcase including performances from the UK, USA and Spain.
Documents the group’s work across this six-year period. In addition to many video edits that have not been seen before, each video has an alternative audio track featuring interviews by Mel Jordan, Ilana Mitchell, Daniel Oliver, Stuart Tait, Sally O’Reilly and John McGrath. In these interviews members of Reactor (past and present) discuss each project, or aspects of the groups practice that impacted on a project in a particular way.
An unconventional participatory performance.
A collection of video documents from Here, Now DIY Depot, an interactive performance event curated by Panther, (Madeleine Hodge and Sarah Rodigari) and featuring artists from around Australia who make work outside traditional theatre contexts.
Study Boxes contain hand picked selections of DVDs, books and other materials from the LADA Study Room around specific themes. Installed in Festival hubs and other locations, and curated in dialogue with partners, each Study Box can hold between four to ten items and can be used by audiences for a quick browse or a day-long study. After the events the Boxes are returned to the Study Room and listed in this Guide so that users can explore these themes and materials during their visit to the LADA Study Room.
A critical framework for understanding and interpreting the new public art that has emerged over the last two decades. Featuring twelve essays from editor Suzanne Lacy: and eleven eminent artists, curators, and critics. Chapters titled as follows: An Unfashionable Audience, Public Constructions, Connective Aesthetics: Art After Individualism, To Search for the Good and Make It Matter, From Art-mageddon to Gringostroika: A Manifesto against Censorship, Looking Around: Where We Are, Where We Could Be, Whose Monument Where? Public Art in a Many-Cultured Society, Common Work, by Jeff Kelley, Success and Failure When Art Changes, Word of Honor, Debated Territory. This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).
Artist archive.
An Interview with Neil Bartlett. This article can be found in Miscellaneous Articles 3 Binder
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
Fifteen installation and performance artists shared the gallery space throughout a six-week period. This publication documents the resulting exhibition through photographs and diagrams.
In separate folder. In Performance Research – On Philosophy & Participation.
Examines the experience of being in the audience during Rimini Protokoll’s performance.
Includes a list of performance art journals and resources, further reading, and glossary of terms explored in the ‘What is…?’ series.
Cally Trench, Philip Lee, Body Body Clay Pane, a live body performance with clay devised in response to Adam Marsh’s ‘ A Throne Is Only A Bench Covered in Velvet’
Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.
A film installation and performance telling the story of ‘The Docklands Bell’; commissioned for The Floating Cinema 2011. 15th July 2011.
Part of Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification.
An artwork that attempts to question the various forms of social control that we live under in an increasingly anxious cultural climate