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Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical
Editor: Mike Sell | Reference: P3499 | ISBN: 978-0230241343 | Type: Publication

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of “vectors of the radical” shape the avant-garde.

activism Alain Badiou Alan Filewod anarchism Andrea Harris Antonin Artaud audience Augusto Boal ballet Ballets Russes Cindy Rosenthal communism culture Dada democracy Esther Kim Lee experimental Fluxus futurism George Balanchine Graham White James Harding James M. Harding Jean Graham-Jones John Cage Joy Division Karl Marx Ken Paik Hakuta Kimberly Jannarone Laura Edmondson Living Theatre Milton Acorn nationalism Patricia Gaborik performance art politics Praise Zenenga protest pungwe punk radical Raisedon Baya Robert Mugabe Rwanda Siyuan Liu theatre Uganda Walter Benjamin Yoko Ono

From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism
Artist/Author: Philip Auslander | Reference: P3503 | ISBN: 978-0415157870 | Type: Publication

Surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.

acting actor Antonin Artaud archetype Arthur Miller audience Bertolt Brecht body capitalism choreography cultural theory culture dance Denise Collier difference experience Fredric Jameson gender identity ideology interpretation irony Jerzy Grotowski joke Kate Bornstein Konstantin Stanislavski language Meredith Monk minimalism modernism narrative ORLAN performance Peter Brook political art politics presence resistance Richard Schechner Rosanne Barr self stand-up subjectivity Susan Foster theatre Vito Acconci Willem Dafoe women Wooster Group

Acting Out: Feminist Performances
Editor: Lynda Hart, Peggy Phelan | Reference: P3492 | ISBN: 978-0472064793 | Type: Publication

The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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Shy Radicals: The Anti-systemic Politics of the Introvert Militant
Artist/Author: Hamja Ahsan | Reference: P3445 | ISBN: 978-1906012571 | Type: Publication

This anti-systemic manifesto, a quiet and thoughtful polemic, is a satire that uses anti-colonial theory to build a critique of dominant culture and the rising tide of Islamophobia. 

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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T(r)ipping points: the architect-walker and the destabilised city
Artist/Author: Stephen Hodge | Digital Reference: EF5267 | Type: Digital File

Documentation (Power Point) from the DIY 13 project exploring notions of tripping and tipping points through the lens of the architect-walker.

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Have You Photographed My Uterus?
Artist/Author: Natasha Davis | Editor: Lena Šimić & Emily Underwood-Lee | Reference: A0764 | Type: Article

A provocationinterested in exploring the meeting points between the obliteration of the possibility of physical motherhood (rupture of the body), a country disappearing in war (rupture of the land) and the reconstruction of the bio-political-history. Together these assert a new no-motherhood and post-motherland identity away from the exilic ruptures that define the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries in Europe.

body culture displacement Europe gender identity infertility migration motherhood motherland performance art trauma war women

Disobedient Theatre Alternative Ways to Inspire, Animate and Play
Artist/Author: Chris Johnston | Reference: P3421 | ISBN: 978-1350014541 | Type: Publication

Divided into two parts, `In the World’ and `In the Room’, the book presents a rounded picture of the possibilities of a `disobedient’ culture and includes many games and exercises for creative practitioners.

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Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution
Artist/Author: Dario Gamboni | Reference: P3452 | ISBN: 978-1861893161 | Type: Publication

Initially galvanized by the sweeping obliteration of architecture and art under the Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and eastern bloc countries, Gamboni investigates other instances of destroyed art and architecture around the globe, uncovering a disquieting and surprisingly widespread phenomenon.

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Stories on Human Rights
Reference: D2276 | Type: DVD

Twenty two 3 minute shorts directed by international filmmakers to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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Refugee Camp for the First World Citizens
Artist/Author: FWC | Reference: D2278 | Type: DVD

A project based on a hypotethical (hypothetical and ethical) situation (political, social, military, security, natural catastrophy …) in which the citizens of highly developed countries (mainly from the West) would be forced to leave their country and look for a temporary home in another country.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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