The Maternal in Creative Work examines the interrelation between art, creativity and maternal experience, inviting international artists, theorists and cultural workers to discuss their approaches to the central feminist question of the relation between maternity, generation and creativity.

Brought together 75 UK based artists onto the Birmingham Hippodrome stage in a snapshot of the performing arts in 2016. Over the course of a single day they learnt and re­created the opening audition scene from the 1985 film 'A Chorus Line'. 

Part of LADA Screens 12. The film was available online  9 ­- 22 June 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel. Includes two version of the video, in two different resolutions.

Second edition of the artwork exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations.

Theorizes the racialized structures of inequality that pervade theater and the arts.

Part of The Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

In this collection of diverse worksessays, short stories, poems, translationswhich spans a lifetimes engagement with art.

A curated collection of 37 amazing full-page coloring designs that will take you on an inspiring adventure through nature. Each whimsical design, illustrated in vibrant detail, offers a fun and easy way to unleash your inner artist and to exercise your creativity.

Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.

Shows how contemporary art is a powerful yet largely unacknowledged player in the articulation of depression in Western culture, both adopting and challenging scientific definitions of the condition. Ross explores the ways in which contemporary art performs the detached aesthetics of depression, exposing the viewer's loss of connection and ultimately redefining the function of the image. 

Using a series of exercises and increasingly in depth ‘trips’, the book sets out clear and concise steps to enable individuals and groups to access their imagination and unconscious reason, to work on behalf of others. Using a series of exercises such as ‘Becoming a Bat’, ‘Crawling’, ‘Draw a Sound’ and ‘Impersonating a Human’, Marcus Coates has developed his own practical techniques to solve problems that we might otherwise remain dumbfounded by.

In the glass cabinet.

A supplement in St Helen’s Star, sharing and documenting the project which has been taking place in the town since for 12 years.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Combining philosophy and aesthetics, this is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking.

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).

Key member of the Italian Autonomist movement and a close associate of Félix Guattari argues that the Marxist/Hegelian concept of alienation and the communal bonds arising from the collective experience of the workforce are under erosion in today’s technological society,

Exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations andrawing on key Live Art themes and seminal works, PLAYING UP takes the form of a game played by adults and kids together. In German.

Exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations andrawing on key Live Art themes and seminal works, PLAYING UP takes the form of a game played by adults and kids together.

A reengagement with four workshops, facilitated within HZT Belin’s BA Dance, Context, Choreography programme between 2014-2016. Consists of four publications, reflecting on the entanglement of artistic and pedagogic practices.

Seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art’s most persistent debates, from definitions of political art, to the troubled status of “outsider” and street art, to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself in a dysfunctional world.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)

This publication explores the pivotal role artists play in re-thinking the future; re-inventing and re-imagining our world at a time of systemic change and uncertainty. This book identifies collaborative arts practices emerging in response to planetary challenges, reclaiming a traditional role for artists in the community as truth-tellers and agents of change.

Catalogue of a practice-based research project under the direction of Paul Heritage that aims to create a live and interactive exhibition illustrating and investigating how young people transform their worlds through the arts.

Collection of essays.

This book gathers key perspectives on Back to Back Theatre and the company's most influential shows

Presentation transcript. In Miscellaneous Articles 3.

Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.

Discusses contemporary art and the relations between art, politics and society. Their dialogue ranges widely from censorship and obscenity to the social conditions of artistic creativity, and focusses on the central themes in the work of both authors.

Platform Study Room Guide (P1820). This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).

A set of essays on Live Art exploring the learning possibilities and partnership opportunities for artists and schools.

As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, the authors take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making.

In 1975, Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno created the original pack of Oblique Strategies cards, through thinking about approaches to their own work as artist and musician. PLEASE NOTE: This item is not in the Study Room, but it sits in the Live Art Development Agency’s office. If you’d like to see it please ask in the office. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Social Engagement and Participation by FrenchMottershead (P1290)

A collection of miniature stories, parables, musings and think-pieces on the nature of reading, writing, art, collaboration, performance, life, death, the universe and everything.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433)