A selection of performances made for camera and Talking Heads. Commissioned by the Agency, the Talking Heads are short video statements by artists about their practice and approaches to making, and include artists addressing the relationship between action and objects, and the tensions between commerce and performance culture.
Exhibition catalogue.
Professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist’s responsibility to society. Contributors: Page duBois, Ewa Kuryluk, Kathy Acker, Elizam Escobar, Martha Rosler, Eva Hauser,Coco Fusco, Carol Becker, Felipe Ehrenberg, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Michael Eric Dyson, Salman Rushdie / Ahmad Sadri, Henry A. Giroux, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and B. Ruby Rich
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25th-26th February 2012
Part of the ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’, documentation of key works, and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.
A double one-woman show: double the woman, double the show. An amalgam of theatre genres and familiar characters; nothing is too outrageous.
A book-film – text with DVD. NOTE: text is in French, DVD in both English and French.
Continues Forced Entertainment’s enquiry into the spectacle of theatre in contemporary life, exploring the ways in which we live, breathe and tell stories in the circumscribed space of late capitalism.
As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, the authors take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making.
Publication in French