Extensive documentation of Ai Weiwei's project 'Fairytale' where the artist invited 1001 participants to live their own Fairytale for 28 days.
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource-a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender or genderqueer authors
A collection of critical essays and artist reflections considering some of the richest and most important developments to take place in contemporary Irish theatre and performance.
The work of Sonia Boyce encourages and challenges us to ask what it means to be a black woman artist in a hierarchical art world, and to confront questions surrounding inter-racial relations in a society where cultural identities condense around myths of nationhood.
Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith and Nikki S Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender and class boundaries in works they have concieved and performed. Cherise Smith analyses their engagements with issues of identity through close readings of perfromances by each artist.
Spanning over 15 years, Occupations is the most comprehensive survey of Jordan McKenzie's work to date. Beginning in the 1990s, through an engagement with body based and queer performance practices, his work has gone on to explore drawing as a live activity as well as questions of class and identity.
This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Cultural Diversity in the Arts’ held in Amsterdam on February 9 and 10, 1993.
A short film by NaoKo TakaHashi, produced during Sharjah Biennale 7’s Artist in Residency Program
This collection of essays by British and American contributors examines the way in which institutions – the media, the law, the medical profession and government – deal with AIDS.
Book exploring the complexities of racial politics and the relationship between racism and nationalism in contemporary Britain.
Living as Form grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a survey of more than 100 projects that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics.
An anthology that explores the rise of activist public art that agitates for social change.
Final Report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions. This article can be found in the Miscellaneous Articles 3 Binder.
Audio recordings of Jeremy Deller discussing the following subjects: Our Hobby is Depeche Mode, Andy Warhol, The Battle of Orgreave, the Art World is a very Middle Class Place, Processions, Churches and Museums, Night at the Museum, Political Art, New Projects, Acid Brass, Glam Rock, Memory Bucket and Social Surrealism
Reviews ways in which sexuality has been explored and expressed in new forms of performance art and dance, women’s contributions to theatre history, and how theatre has represented women over the centuries.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Collection of texts concerning a diversity of issues relating to feminism and visual cultures, arranged thematically and introduced by the editor. This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)
1 of 5 DVDs from the series brutproduktion, season 2009. See REF. P1217; D1134-8. Trailer, full version.
Argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism.
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Includes contributions by editors as well as Dinah Birch, Alicia Ostriker, Wendy Webster, Michelle Cliff, Alice Walker. This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)