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Contemporary European Theatre Directors
An overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s.
Fair Play
What is the quality of participation in contemporary art and performance? Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores this question through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre.
A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance.
Framing Feminism
An introduction to the major events and debated in the early years of feminist art practice. An extensive collection of articles, as well as broadsheets printed in facsimile, illustrate the history and diversity of arguably the most important intervention in modern art.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Arendt provides a historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism. The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and the rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it.
The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
The book explores Weaver’s collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot.
Jamie McMurry’s Shit Parade
Writing and documentation from a performance in London March 2015 with photos by Manuel Vason. Miscellaneous folder #5A
Revolutionary Time and the Avant Garde
The first book of its kind to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of capitalist non-reproduction.
Double Your Money with Scottee documentation
Documentation from Double Your Money, LADA's Catalyst supported initiative offering artists £1,000 and inviting them to turn it into (at least) £2,000 which would be split equally between the artist and LADA.
Contemporary Theatre Review: Theatre, Performance and Activism - Gestures towards an Equitable World
Special Issue; Volume 25, Issue 3.
Propaganda Pamphlet
A collection of documents, presentations, propaganda pamphlets and vidioes realised by The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home, including “Miss Julie in Utopia Propaganda Pamphlet 2106200821” (2008), “The Hazardous Family Performance Text” (2008), “Macbethmachine Pamphlet 211220101330” (2010), “Family in Transit” (2013), and a DVD video of “A Promising Family Picnic” (2009).
Studying Disability Arts and Culture - An Introduction
Complete with case studies, exercises and questions for further study, the book introduces students to the work of disabled artists and their allies, and explores artful responses to living with physical, cognitive, emotional or sensory difference.
