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Night Flowers: From Avante-Drag to Extreme Haute-Couture

Artist/Author: Damien Frost | Reference: P3216 | ISBN: 978-1858946481 | Type: Publication

A book of portraits, made as Frost wandered the streets of London in search of its most colourful inhabitants.

Silence

Artist/Author: John Cage | Reference: P3211 | ISBN: 978-0714505268 | Type: Publication

A collection of some of the essays and lectures that have made Cage's name synonymous with all that is unpredictable and exciting in contemporary music.

50th Anniversary Edition edition.

Shoot the Sissy

Artist/Author: Nando Messias | Digital Reference: EF5235 | Type: Digital File

A disturbingly beautiful freak show, a queer menagerie of carnivalesque contortion and florid fantasy.

Directed by Sam Williams.

23'09''

Schooling the Spectator in O

Artist/Author: Kristen Cochrane | Editor: Natasha Lushetich and Mathias Fuchs | Reference: A0731 | Type: Article

On Project O’s performances at the Forest Fringe Microfestival, Progress Festival, Theatre Centre, Toronto, Canada, February 2016

Walking Failure

Artist/Author: Nando Messias | Digital Reference: EF5236 | Type: Digital File

A five-minute performance piece mixing movement and lipsynching.

Directed by Sam Williams.

6'15''

Enmeshed bodies, impossible touch: the object-oriented world of Pina Bausch’s Café Müller

Artist/Author: João Florêncio | Editor: Richard Allen and Shaun May | Reference: A0726 | Type: Article

The addresses the nonhuman bodies of Café Müller and claim that Bausch’s piece resonates with the work of contemporary philosopher Graham Harman, in that it tries to go beyond human exceptionalism to present a world where all bodies, regardless of their perceived nature, are simultaneously tightly enmeshed together and inaccessible to one another.

Sissy!

Artist/Author: Nando Messias | Digital Reference: EF5237 | Type: Digital File

Documentation from a full-length dance-theatre piece created in collaboration with Biño Sauitzvy.

Directed by Judy Jacobs.

10'25''

Meredith Monk

Editor: Deborah Jowitt | Reference: P3201 | ISBN: 978-0801855405 | Type: Publication

An absorbing portrait of an artist whose career spans three decades of American avant-garde performance. Collecting writings by Monk herself, along with significant reviews, essays, interviews, and photographs of Monk’s unique performance events, the book establishes her as one of the great treasures of contemporary American culture.

The Concrete Body: Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci

Artist/Author: Elise Archias | Reference: P3174 | ISBN: 978-0300217971 | Type: Publication

Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body.