Anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it: a tool for playful debate, collaboration, and intervention.
An invitation to encounter work and thinking that is in motion. Taking two years of projects and initiatives by Heart of Glass, a national agency for collaborative and social practice based in St Helens, as its starting point, the publication explores the interface between theory and practice.
Taking place on 12 July 2007, SWIM was an open invitation, all access swim across London from Tooting Bec Lido to Hampstead Heath Ponds.
2014, 31’ 19”
This video was part of LADA Screens, and was available online between 17 August and 31 August 2015
An occasional publication that aims to collate and investigate ideas around place, or more specifically: “indeterminate geographies”. In the third issue, the topic is ‘refuge’.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Doctoral thesis printed in limited edition of 20 copies; focuses on performative practices and the performativity of artists and their activist counterparts in the Umbrella Movement (2014).
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Public installations designed to construct interactions between humans and arthropods such as moths, beetles, caddisflies, ants and lacewings.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
The artist co-habits with animals in cages in zoos around the world.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
A donkey choreographs a group of dancers.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
Report about the Arts and Humanities Resarch Council funded prject.
A short animation about the regionally extinct lion.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
A revival of medieval animal trials featuring Snoopy the Jack Russell terrier in court for sheep worrying.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
A parade of leaf-cutter ants carry artificial leaves painted as flags of different nations and peace signs.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
Watch apes and elephants master human art. This film was created alongside the 2012 exhibition Art by Animals at the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
The artist lies motionless for five hours in a glass container that he shares with a colony of ants.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
The artist shares a living space with Deliah the pig for 72 hours. Film Credit: Rob La Frenais
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
A farmer calls his cattle by playing his trombone to them.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
The artist collaborates with a goat to re-enact performance artist Yoko Ono’s famous work from 1964, Cut Piece.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
Doon Mackichan wanders, falls, swims and loiters with a few of the women making walking art. 8 October 2018.
Highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear.
A manifesto for the active and creative pedestrian – envisioning a walking that is neither a functional necessity (to shops, to work) nor a passive appreciation of (or complaint about) the urban environment.
Presents Woodman's work from his entire career, including artists' portraits, studios, exhibitions, installations and performances, collaborations with artists, social documentation and more recent and personal works.
Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? This book argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the ‘homophobic migrant’ who is rendered by society as hateful, homophobic and disposable.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
A map of small businesses.
Publication on the participatory mapping project developed that took place on the Redways in Milton Keynes from 17th – 29th July, 2018.
In glass cabinet.
A practical handbook on the lost art of getting lost, reading the signs around you, following their lead, and creating your own.
A collection of writings which describe in words the mercurial and ephemeral light as it changes across a day, across seasons, and across a year.
An anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it; a tool for playful debate, collaboration, and intervention.
An exploration of walking and mapping as both form and content in art projects using old and new technologies, shoe leather and GPS.
The first of its kind in English, this book is more than a city guide to Hong Kong through the medium of film; it is a unique exploration of the relationship between location and place and genre innovations in Hong Kong cinema.
A catalogue that collects, anticipates, and activates the fantastic experiences and happenings of Fusebox 2018.
A satire about a bug society and its most powerful family. 72 mins.
Includes:
-Corridors, Stairways & Corners
-A Lexicon ofLabour Movements
-The Italic I (Tacturiency)
Generously donated to LADA's Study Room by Clare Thornton.
In the glass cabinet.
Documentation (Power Point) from the DIY 13 project exploring notions of tripping and tipping points through the lens of the architect-walker.
This documentary follows the interventions of the Heróis do Cotidiano collective throughout the city of Rio de Janeiro during the months of February and March 2010.
Postcards with suggestions for public space performances. In English and French.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
30 minute documentary about urban change and to role of arts and culture in Dublin, in the midst of regeneration.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, held at the NGBK Berlin, from November, 4th to December 23rd 2005. In German and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Published to coincide with the launch of Public Art Now, a programme of events and discussions which explore new forms and approaches to public art.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR).
Drawing on more than ten years of ethnographic research in and around New York City, the book offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that address how race is negotiated in today's world-including tales of book-vending numerologists, urban conspiracy theorists, corrupt police officers, mixed-race neo-Nazis, and gospel choirs forbidden to catch the Holy Ghost.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification.
54 intriguing encounters produced by artists involved with the Walking Artists Network and beyond.
Publication on four walks commissioned by SPACE, which provided the chance to discuss the many and varied viewpoints related to the commons, including resource, community and the process of commoning. This edition includes an essay written by Maru Rojas in response to the project and the commons.
A collection exploring walking (literally and figuratively, one might say sleepwalking).
Publication documenting the work of the WRG in 2013 and 2014.
Anthropologists, writers, philosophers, artists, sociologists and architects from around the world voice their views of the challenges facing society today. The content ranges from anecdotes to complex research projects. In Spanish and English.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
One of the first comprehensive treatments of land use in contemporary art, the collection surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Inckudes: A Conversation With My Father, Songs for Breaking Britain, Equations for a Moving Body.