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Chinese Performing Arts Yearbook 2015
Reference: P3187 | Type: Publication

Comprehensive overview of China's performance art in 2015. Includes essays, five case studies and information on over 100 artists. In Mandarin.

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Kwangjoo is Impeaching
Artist/Author: Soni Kum | Reference: D2239 | Type: DVD

The video juxtaposes the various form of mediation from one historical event – the 1980 student massacre –  according to linear time line. The public memory of the incident is formed and moulded with mediated images and languages.

1hour 27min

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Nando Messias leaflets
Reference: P3181 | Type: Publication

Handout and info for Shoot the Sissy LADA Screens event.

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Emergency INDEX Vol 5
Editor: Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary, Katie Gaydos | Reference: P3098 | ISBN: 978-1-937027-75-9 | Type: Publication

In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. By including performances regardless of their country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals the breathtaking variety of practices used in performance work today.

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Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity
Artist/Author: Adrian Curtin | Reference: P3108 | ISBN: 978-1349459063 | Type: Publication

Explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.

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My Nana’s Wedding (Gown) Part One
Artist/Author: Miffy Ryan | Reference: P3028 | Type: Publication

Stills from the performance, which comprised of over 300 images and took place in 2 parts; part one is performed in a photography studio, with the photographer the only spectator.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

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Patience
Artist/Author: Emily Underwood-Lee | Reference: P3032 | Type: DVD

Explores the experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant. Performace text.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

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So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
Artist/Author: Patrick Anderson | Reference: P2981 | ISBN: 978-0822348283 | Type: Publication

Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.

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Gardens Speak
Artist/Author: Tania El Khoury | Reference: P2938 | ISBN: 978-1-939067-20-3 | Type: Publication

Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as they themselves would have recounted it.

This book contains the narrative text of those ten oral histories in both English and spoken Arabic, as well as an an introduction by the artist, and illustrations of the audience experience in Gardens Speak.

 

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AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism
Editor: Douglas Crimp | Reference: P2909 | ISBN: 978-0262530798 | Type: Publication

A collection on the media and public perception and representations of AIDS. Includes essays, a portfolio of manifestos, articles, letters, and photographs from the publications of the PWA Coalition, an interview with three members of the AIDS discrimination unit of the New York City Commission on Human Rights and presentations for the independent video documentaries on AIDS, Testing the Limits and Bright Eyes.

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101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides
Editor: Trisha Ziff | Reference: P2891 | ISBN: 978-1597112116 | Type: Publication

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.

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Ana Mendieta
Editor: Gloria Moure | Reference: P2887 | ISBN: 978-8434308213 | Type: Publication

This publication sets out to make Mendieta's figure more public in order to secure her rightful place in the chronicle of contemporary art.

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