A heady brew of feminist critique of the art world and extreme body horror.

Draws on Wojnarowicz’s work to explore the role of abandoned landscape in this explosion of queer culture in NYC.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Maps the vast stretch of urban settlement outside London bounded by the M25.

Interview with Ulay.

It examines the 'performance of extremity' as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art's most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? This book argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the ‘homophobic migrant’ who is rendered by society as hateful, homophobic and disposable. 

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

From war and environmental pollution to racism and sexual assault, the publication analyzes the consequences of trauma as seen in the works of artists like Marina Abramović, Pope.L, and Chris Burden.

Enrique Metinides's choice of the 101 key images from his life photographing crime scenes and accidents in Mexico for local newspapers and the nota roja (or red pages, for their bloody content) crime press. An accompanying exhibition, which launched at Rencontres d'Arles in July 2011, toured to venues in Europe and the Americas.

Catalogue for the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz exhibition Andy Warhol: Death and Disaster, curated by Heiner Bastian. November 2014 – February 2015.

A collection of instruments that deploy security and surveillance technologies in unusual and playful contexts, prompting visitors to reflect on their personal sense of security and their relationship with public fears (of petty crime, terrorism, etc.). The first instrument to be built is a steel harp with strings of razor wire, which requires the harpist to wear protective gauntlets to play it.

Duckie, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, full documentation of 10 critical performance/essays on: Celebrity (3 parts), Cookery (3 parts), Crime & Punishment (3 parts), Immigration (3 parts), Dogging (3 parts), Media Studies (3 parts), HIV unt AIDS (3 parts), The Women's Issue (4 parts), Antiques Roadshow (3 parts), Alcoholism (4 parts). David Hoyle, includes video projections and live performance. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195). This item can be found in the locked glass cabinet.

Looks at a wide range of performance and visual artists, at popular TV shows and movies, and at our day-to-day encounters with surveillance, rooting its arguments in an accessible reading of cultural theory.

A series of five short complimentary films investigating the ways in which inhabitants of five towns across Europe deal with a recent local criminal case that has somehow captured the public imagination.