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Visions of the Occult

Artist/Author: Victoria Jenkins | Reference: P4268 | ISBN: 978-1-84976-762-0 | Type: Publication

This lavishly illustrated magical volume acts a potent talisman connecting the two worlds of Tate – the seen public collection and the unseen secrets lurking in the archive. The pages of this book explore the hidden artworks and ephemera left behind by artists for the first time idea and will shed new light on our understanding of the art historical canon. This book explores the symbiotic relationship between art and the occult and how both can act as a form of resistance to challenging environments. This book will change perceptions forever and illuminate the surprising breadth and extraordinary ways in which artists interpret not just the physical world around them but also the supernatural, and in doing so make the unseen, seen. If you think you know Tate artists, it’s time to think again.

Italian Performance Art

Artist/Author: Giovanni Fontana, Nicola Frangione, and Roberto Rossini | Reference: P4244 | ISBN: 978-88-6373-337-2 | Type: Publication

This book is in Italian.

“Italian Performance Art” embarks on the adventure of rendering the unspeakable in performance through text, the revelation of a tension of being in a discursive and communicative mode that is like putting into words Lucio Fontana’s Gesture on canvas or John Cage’s Silence in music. Structured with contributions from leading researchers (Brunelli, Fontana, Frangione, Lupieri, Rossini, Sullo) and a substantial historical and bibliographical apparatus (Fontana, Merega, Rossini), the work is the first publication to comprehensively address the situation of performance art in Italy, offering a comprehensive framework and tracing the main historical reference points. Starting with Futurism, through the action poetry of the twentieth-century neo-avant-garde and Body Art, it defines the most recent relationships between creative gesture and new technologies. The volume includes a collection of theoretical and critical essays and a section of color monographic notes illustrating the work of those artists continuously involved in the field of performance art.

Continuum: Collected Happenings and Writings

Artist/Author: Sarah Boulton | Reference: P4243 | Type: Publication

This is the first collection of writings by Sarah Boulton and brings together her happenings, encounters and happening-upons.

The first half of this collection is a series of texts that describe encounters and happening-upons, which are two directions of experiencing. Encounters are what happens to [her] and happening-upons are what [she] find happening. [She’s] made them into happenings by way of writings.

The second half of texts are happenings that [she’s] made since 2012 that [she has] now documented into words.

Throughout the collection, there are texts that Boulton has written in respinse to some of these writings, which are continuations that circle back and move forward the ideas and actions over time.

A Glimpse Inside the Grotto

Artist/Author: Shaun Caton | Digital Reference: EF5325 | Type: Digital File

A performance by of the UK’s most ‘genuinely terrifying’ artists.

This video was part of LADA Screens, and was available online from 15 – 29 July 2015.

The Best is Not Too Good for You: New Approaches to Public Collections in England

Editor: Contemporary Art Society and Whitechapel Gallery | Reference: P3239 | ISBN: 978-0-8548-8229-8 | Type: Publication

Explores the role of philanthropy in public collections across the UK.

Theatre and Museums

Artist/Author: Susan Bennett | Reference: P3003 | ISBN: 978-0230580206 | Type: Publication

Bennett looks at the collaborative processes that intertwine these two cultural practices. She argues that discourses of performance studies can open up new avenues of inquiry about the production and reception of the museum experience and its place in contemporary culture.

Stuart Brisley: Performing the Political Body and Eating Shit

Artist/Author: Michael Newman | Reference: P2994 | ISBN: 978-0-9575299-2-2 | Type: Publication

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Stuart Brisley: Headwinds, MAC Belfast, 30 January-26 April 2015.

DIY 11: 2014 - ‘Chances Are’ Mail Art Collection

Artist/Author: Anne Bean, Siriol Joyner, Yol, Katy Baird, Daniel Gosling, Thomas Bacon, Ezra Rubenstein and Elspeth Owen | Reference: P2633 | Type: Publication

A disparate collection of ‘chance’ materials and objects assembled and curated via post by the participants with the artist Anne Bean. Part of the DIY 11 collaborative project using chance device as a means for intuition and creation. Loose materials in large black folder.

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