Reaffirms the central position of the body in various artistic practices through in-depth conversations with choreographers, composers, visual artists, hip hop artists, dramaturges, a light designer and a puppeteer.
Combining philosophy and aesthetics, this is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project, interrogating how re-‘creation’ impacts the creative process.
The third annual HIAP publication, which gives an overview of 46 residencies and a small sampling of events that took place in 2016.
This Is Not a Book will engage readers by having them define everything a book can be by asking, ‘If it’s not a book, what is it then?’ – with a kaleidoscope of possible answers.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).
A practical proposal for the inclusion of children in as many realms as possible, not only as an expression of their rights, but as a way to intervene in the world and to disrupt the stark economic inequalities perpetuated by the status quo.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).
This book is not currently available.
What happens when a 12-18 month old is let loose in a soft, safe space with someone who follows and reflects their every sound, move and mood? The interaction between babies, performers and the audience of parents and carers is what makes this an utterly unpredictable event.
Includes a 10 minute edit and a video of the 45 minute performance a the 2005 Melbourne Festival.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).
Through a series of creatively and quirkily illustrated prompts, Smith encourages journalers to engage in “destructive” acts – poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting with coffee, colouring outside the lines, and more – in order to experience the true creative process.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).
Published for the eponymous exhibition; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, February-April 2014.
A 150 page reader for students and other particularly interested audience members stuffed full of texts, scripts, interviews and concept documents.
A new book about “do it yourself” performance, with contributions made by over 30 arts practitioners and collectives. It’s a sequel of sorts – or rather; a continuation – to a recent text that platformed a growing community of voices in theatre, art, dance and performance making.
The publication explores art created in public spaces in Brazil, since 2000. In Portuguese and English. Published under the Creative Commons licence.
An overview of Poro: Brazilian company engaged in poetic, ironic and political actions. In Portuguese and English.
The Mums and Babies Ensemble was a series of public workshops and events convened by three mums/theatre-makers and their babies. It was prompted by the desire to integrate the structure and chaos of performance-making and motherhood, to create a space that would meet the needs of the parents and babies equally, to capture some memories, to grow a community, and to pass something on eventually.
By institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home.
This volume provides students and artists with a deeper understanding of a director and playwright Richard Maxwell's work, aesthetic philosophy, and process for creating theater.
Organized as a reader, this publication examines Signer's oeuvre since the 1970s, pulling together texts from different periods on heterogeneous aspects of his body of work for the first time. Articles include specialist analyses of specific pieces and topical essays treating fundamental issues linked to his radical understanding of sculpture and the attendant philosophical questions it raises.
Suspect Culture was Scotland’s leading experimental theatre company between 1993 and 2009. This book surveys the company’s history and ideas and includes an overview of the Company by David Greig; co-founder, writer, dramaturg and sometime actor with Suspect Culture.
Discussion of works and creative process of Helen Chadwick in relation to architecture, the body, and identity
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
A practical handbook that combines a critical analysis of contemporary devised theatre practice with descriptions of selected companies, and suggestions for any group devising theatre from scratch.
Argues for a performative relationship between art and artist.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433) and the Study Room Guide in Search of a Documentology by Marco Pustianaz (P1115)
Offers insight into the different kinds of processes that practitioners in the performing arts undertake in their creative work and considers the implications these processes have in the wider world.
Includes 249 performances in the words of their creators and a comprehensive index of the terms used to describe them.