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The Edges of Society: The Plays of Dea Loher
Introduction to Loher's play, with particular emphasis on Innocence – the play and Michael Thalheimer's 2012 production.
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.
Blacktino Queer Performance
The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices.
Protesting Exhibit B in London: Reconfiguring Antagonism as the Claiming of Theatrical Space
The article analyses discourses surrounding the cancellation of Brett Bailey’s performance by the Barbican in September 2014.
Rasheed Araeen, Live Art, and Radical Politics in Britain
An analysis of Araeen's performance Paki Bastard (Portrait of the Artist as a Black Person) and journal Black Phoenix.
Found in miscellaneous article folder #5A
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Performativity and Performance
From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what “performance” is all about. At the same moment, “performativity”–a new concept in language theory–has become a ubiquitous term in literary studies. This volume grapples with the nature of these two key terms whose traces can be found everywhere: in the theatre, in the streets, in philosophy, in questions of race and gender, and in the sentences we speak.
Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s
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.
STUDY ROOM GUIDE / LADA ANTHOLOGY: PERFORMANCE FROM THE EDGE (Full Screening)
Two screening programmes of radical work for SPILL 2014:
Marginalised Bodies – A screening of artists working with their queer, disabled, black and female bodies in brilliant and subversive ways. Featuring La Ribot, Harold Offeh, Kira O’Reilly, Disabled Avant Garde, George Chakravarthi, and many more. Contained by the secrecy of the night hours and the wearing of horse blinkers; the performance score involves actions of cutting, tattooing, writing and speaking. The work explores domestication and the feral through actions that open and restrict the body (such as fasting, cutting and urinating).
Club & Underground Culture – A screening of live performance and work to camera rooted in underground and club culture. Featuring mavericks, outsiders, legends, gender terrorists and out and out freaks, including David Hoyle, CHRISTEENE, Ursula Martinez, Rocío Boliver, Duckie and many more.
Black Theatre’s Unprecedented Times
A publication chronicling the development of the AGIA (The African Grove Institute for the Arts) Movement spearheaded by noted playwright August Wilson.
Looking For Langston
Film exploring and documenting the life of Harlem Renaissance poet and black gay cultural icon Langston Hughes. Black and White.
