BA Design dissertation exploring the archive; the research formed the theoretical foundation for Kong’s studio practice.
Essays on the concept of total theatre, which emerged from the Bauhaus as a new aesthetic of stage design and presentation.
Explores our obsession with the lure of distant lands and their promise of the weird and wonderful, the beautiful and grotesque.
Brings together established and emerging practitioners who work with light, as material or subject.
Documents the crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Postcards made on the occasion of the gallery’s 20th birthday.
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.
A project based on the artists' experience of mental health, and their desire to find a positive space to experience mental distress… and enlightenment.
The 2016’s season centres on the theme of Potentialities – the potential to develop in the future and transform society.
11 August – 17 September 2016.
Provides a pedagogical framework that assists students and others in deconstructing dominant narratives around work, employability and careers, and explores alternative ways of engaging with work and the economy.
Provides a pedagogical framework that assists students and others in deconstructing dominant narratives around work, employability and careers, and explores alternative ways of engaging with work and the economy.
A film showing the imagined interior of a prison, sculptures by prisoners on themes of rehabilitation.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this comics-illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Catalogue of the eponymous programme of events; Barbican, 20-28 January 2017. Includes archival images from the Warburg Institute and other sources that have provided inspiration to the artists during the making process, an introduction to the work by Siobhan Davies, a conversation between the Warburg Institute and Siobhan Davies Dance, and texts by artists and curators involved.
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.
The book presents over 100 covers of The Communist Manifesto, compiled from the Museum of Ordure’s collection. The launch included a sound performance by the Curator and Acting Director of the Museum of Ordure, R Y Sirb.
Tom Holert argues that with Celebration? Realife, Chaimowicz makes a strategic and important meditation on the changing role of the artist, who simultaneously becomes art director, choreographer and participant. The groundbreaking installation Celebration? Realife was originally created for ‘Three Life Situations’ at Gallery House London in 1972.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
The book encompasses unusual and cutting-edge foods, radical dining events, “kitchen laboratory” experiments, food sculptures and other documentation of the transient moments that make up this field of experimentation’, as well as a study of the connections between dining, theatre and ritual, and a survey of recent research in science and technology, and how this may impact on how we make, eat and perceive food.
Exploring aesthetics of the 1980s.
Review of the work of Chicago-based artist, musician, and activist Theaster Gates.
Exploration of art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.
This article can be found in the Miscellaneous Articles 3 BinderTraining for exploitation? Towards an alternative curriculum is for use by students, teachers and cultural workers to address free and precarious labour in the arts,.
The programme guide to the maiden voyage from the Boat Project by Lone Twin. The book is also available in the Study Room (P1868). This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964) and the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
Illustrated catalogue.
From 31st March-28th April 2007 the top floor of Clarke Tower opened its doors to the public in the form of a unique short stay hotel.
A book about devising, structured as a series of themed chapters intercut with case studies of key elements of the creative process.
Documentation of more than 150 artists who participated in Performa 09.
Artistic artefacts, original quotations and creative writing that considers the social impact of technology for humanity.
Conceptual photographic actions. Czech and English.
Catalogue published in occasion of the homonymous exhibition. English and French.
Contains interview with Jordan McKenzie.
Includes audio tape in boxed set.