Second edition of the artwork exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations.

Publication that emerged from, and was inspired by, an exhibition held across Southampton’s John Hansard Gallery and SeaCity Museum in 2014.

Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present, as well as protest actions from the lunch counter sit-ins of the US civil rights movement to protest camps in the twenty-first century, this book provides a formal account of endurance and illuminates its ethical and political significance.

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. 

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 Abramovic, Pope.L, and Chris Burden.

Analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in late-medieval France and the twenty-first century, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

Questions whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel. In a journey through high and low culture, the visual to the verbal, and the apolitical to the political, Nelson offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo and permissibility.

A collection of essays, documents, & bibiliography reagrding performance art edited by people associated with a Toronto-based arts organization.

Exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations andrawing on key Live Art themes and seminal works, PLAYING UP takes the form of a game played by adults and kids together. In German.

Exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations andrawing on key Live Art themes and seminal works, PLAYING UP takes the form of a game played by adults and kids together.

Art students who experiment, think differently and take risks are often praised for their efforts. But what happens when students become interested in developing performance-based work involving risk of injury and physical pain?

Endurance was a three-day programme of screenings, performances and exhibition exploring the physical and mental limits of human experience (24 April – 26 June 2008 at VIVID, Birmingham). This forder includes flyers, programme and booklet with programme notes and texts by Tracey Warr, Kay Winwood, Deborah Kermode.

*currently unavailable*

This publication explores the ethical challenges with which performance art confronts its viewers speak to the reimagining of the audience.

Investigates sound art and its various manifestations through historical, theoretical, polemical and critical analyses of artistic, musical and literary works

Article written by Amy Sharrocks for the 'Performance Research on Falling' journal. Located in Miscellaneous Articles Folder 5A. This item is part of the Study Room Guide: On Falling by Amy Sharrocks (P2249)

Documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art.

Adam E Mendelsohn article discussing the retrieval of history through re-enactment.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529)

Foreword by Mark Hansen

Investigations of failure as a key concern—as theme, strategy, and world view—of recent art.

This ‘exhibition in a book’ features the work of over 100 artists who examine the place and function of performance in the contemporary world.

Part of On Falling, a compilation of material from the Study Room Gathering Live Art and Falling hosted by Amy Sharrocks in November 2012. At the event Amy gave a presentation which was followed by an extensive group discussion. This Guide is in note form, for ease of reading, and in the hope that people can read between the lines, and see the rhythm and shape of the wide-ranging and non-stop discussion.

Part of On Falling, a compilation of material from the Study Room Gathering Live Art and Falling hosted by Amy Sharrocks in November 2012. At the event Amy gave a presentation which was followed by an extensive group discussion. This Guide is in note form, for ease of reading, and in the hope that people can read between the lines, and see the rhythm and shape of the wide-ranging and non-stop discussion.