Explores the issue of borders and border crossing in the era of globalization and transnationalism, analyzing how the nation-state system regulates movements of people.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Conceived in January 2014, the process-based piece continues Matteo Guidi's and Giuliana Racco's investigation into the ways people bypass restrictions and limitations in their daily lives, moving through systems imposed on them.
Exhibition catalogue; 11/11/2015 – 23/1/2016, Fundacio Sunol
Mezzadra and Neilson explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various geographical scales, illustrating their theoretical arguments with illuminating case studies drawn from Europe, Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, and elsewhere.
Short and long trailer for Performing Rights, a festival of creative dialogues between artists, academics, activists, and audiences investigating relationships between human rights and performance.
An overview of the first 10 years of the VERBO festival, featuring texts by Brazilian and foreign authors.
In Portuguese and English; some text in Spanish.
Now in paperback and with a new preface by Susan Bennett, the book explores an interdisciplinary range of topics, including: theatre and urban policy development; architecture, trauma, and memory; urban performance history; site-specific performance and urban politics; sexuality and nationality in urban performance; and environmental performance theory.
A diverse group of contributors, from art historians, anthropologists, and political theorists to artists, filmmakers, and architects, considers the interaction of politics and the visual in such topics as the political consequences of a photograph taken by an Israeli soldier in a Palestinian house in Ramallah; AIDS activism; images of social suffering in Iran; the “forensic architecture” of claims to truth; and the “Make Poverty History” campaign. Transcending disciplines, they trace a broader image complex whereby politics is brought to visibility through the mediation of specific cultural forms that mix the legal and the visual, the hermeneutic and the technical, the political and the aesthetic.
A critical discussion of the public sphere in the current neoliberal capitalist democracy from the perspective of performance.
A performance document of a project that took place at West Everton Community Council in Liverpool, April 2011 (funded by Arts Council England). The piece was conceived as a ‘community exam’ where the audience members took the ‘Life in the UK’ test – an obligatory test for all immigrants applying for British citizenship and for Indefinite Leave to Remain.
The author provides a philosophical reflection on the issues of democratic bodies and citizenship in Ireland through a survey of the work artist Sandra Johnson.