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Choreographies: Tracing the Materials of an Ephemeral Art Form
Lansley offers unique insight into the processes behind independent choreography and paints a vivid portrait of a rigorous practice that combines dance, performance art, visuals, and a close attention to space and site.
Relationship
Documenting a six-year relationship with photos, video stills, letters and ephemera, this book is a stunning, intimat, and wholly original visual narrative by two rising artists who put queer consciousness on the front burner.
Girl in a Band
Founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story.
The Dreamers
A collection exploring walking (literally and figuratively, one might say sleepwalking).
It’s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells
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.
Staging an Exilic Autobiography: On the pleasures and frustrations of repetitions and returns
Expanding on the ideas of double wound (Caruth) and nostalgia (Aciman), this article discusses Davis' poetic autobiographic performances as examples of the terror and relief of repeating exilic pain.
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
A raw, thrilling story of life on the frontiers and a candid account of Viv's life post-punk – taking in a career in film, the pain of IVF, illness and divorce and the triumph of making music again.
365 Performances
Unique documentation of a year long performance project by one of America's most interesting performance artists; McMurry set out to do a performance action every day for a year, attempting to confuse art and life.
41 minutes.
The Story of ‘M’
A moving tribute to the life and death of the artist’s white mother mother who raised her mixed-race children in the face of frequent racism 1960s but never let them forget they were of African descent and to be proud of their heritages. Includes selected poems by the same author.
See also D2230.
Emergency INDEX Vol 5
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.
The Story of M
Commissioned by the Institute for Contemporary Arts in 1995, The Story of M is a moving tribute to the life and death of the artist’s white mother mother who raised her mixed-race children in the face of frequent racism 1960s but never let them forget they were of African descent and to be proud of their heritages.
Maternity Leaves
Witnessed by unwitting suburbanites, and documented on a phone camera, Maternity Leaves documents a series of short performative walks within a mile radius of the artist's home, exploring the time and space of motherhood.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
