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Performance in Contemporary Art
Proposes that performance is not a genre of art separate from object making but rather an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art.
Posthuman Spiritualities in Contemporary Performance: Politics, Ecologies and Perceptions
Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.
Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure
Examines an array of issues, including sex as a subversive activity, the “liberated orgasm,” sex advice literature, gender uncertainties, queer politics, anti-pornography campaigns and the rise of the moral right.
The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression
Shows how contemporary art is a powerful yet largely unacknowledged player in the articulation of depression in Western culture, both adopting and challenging scientific definitions of the condition. Ross explores the ways in which contemporary art performs the detached aesthetics of depression, exposing the viewer's loss of connection and ultimately redefining the function of the image.
Curators’ Series 11 programme
For the 11th edition of DRAF Curators’ Series, guest curator Victor Wang 王宗孚 launches the Institute of Asian Performance Art (IAPA), an international network to deepen the awareness and understanding of the history of early performance art in Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan.
The Last Known Pose: Essays and Reflections on the Works of Qasim Riza Shaheen
A collection of written and visual responses to the works of British artist, Qasim Riza Shaheen. Essays, reflections and conversations, by eminent scholars, curators, artists and collaborators, consider the multiple aspects and the experience of his works.
In English and Urdu.
The Artist practice of Exorcism
Archive and essay on the artistic exploration of exorcism. Includes a dissertation, CDs, DVDs, and objects.
In the glass cabinet.
Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma
From war and environmental pollution to racism and sexual assault, the publication analyzes the consequences of trauma as seen in the works of artists like Marina Abramović, Pope.L, and Chris Burden.
Performing Archives/Archives of Performance
Contributes to the ongoing critical discussions of performance and its disappearance, of the ephemeral and its reproduction, of archives and mediatised recordings of liveness.
No one should have seen this. The theatre of Via Negativa, 2002 - 2011
A chronological review of a decade of endeavours by one of the most astute Slovenian projects of contemporary performing arts. The publication with extensive visual material and excerpts from texts documents 29 performances accompanied by Dr Blaž Lukan’s essay Erasing the Audience which analyses the company’s performing strategies.
Becoming Dangerous
Witchy femmes, queer conjurers, and magical rebels on summoning the power to resist.
Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy
Combines performance analysis with contemporary political philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political performance and the performativity of the politics of the street.
