Documentation of the evening which featured a screening of short films and performance documentation by artists working around ritual, performance and queer futurity.
An occasional publication that aims to collate and investigate ideas around place, or more specifically: “indeterminate geographies”. In the third issue, the topic is ‘refuge’.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
A comprehensive study of queer identities and communities across Asia, re-envisioning the queer through Asian perspectives.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, the book looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance, pedagogy, identity and culture.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
The first volume in the trilogy consent not to be a single being engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life.
In 2016, two artists embarked a cargo ship and retraced a route of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle – Europe, Africa, the Caribbean – all the while contemplating the notion of home. Both real and imagined, it was a journey to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, propelled by questions and grief; a journey backwards in order to go forwards, a diaspora. This show is what they brought back.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
About a conference on black dance, from the conference chair.
On Les Ballets Africains, Adzido, Phoenix and Irie! at Sadler's Wells, Autumn 1990.
The essays in Women, the Arts and Globalization demonstrate that women in the arts are rarely positioned at the centre of the art market, and the movement of women globally (as travelers or migrants, empowered artists/scholars or exiled practitioners), rarely corresponds with the dominant models of global exchange. Rather, contemporary women's art practices provide a fascinating instance of women's eccentric experiences of the myriad effects of globalization.
Illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s.
Presents a thematic history; every chapter explores a specific theme through pictures, offers explanations to contextualize them while offering additional bibliographic references in relation to the theme, for further research. In French and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition by Yongsoon Min ;13 August to 12 September 2004 at the SSamzie Space Galleries. In English and Korean.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Includes: Foreign Sky, Beast of Me, Still Hear the Wound
Catalogued with a spanned DVD.
This provocative book meets the supposedly 'live' practices of performance and the 'no-longer-live' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the 'and' of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot – but often oppositional – arts and acts of time.
How are hybrid and diasporic identities performed in increasingly diverse societies? How can we begin to think differently about theatrical flow across cultures?
The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices.
From Tate Papers no.12
Found in miscellaneous article folder #5B
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
*currently unavailable*
This collection of essays explores contemporary manifestations of extraterritoriality and the diverse ways in which the concept has been put to use in various disciplines.
Beginning with discussions of the pioneering generation of artists such as Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling, Chambers candidly discusses the problems and progression of several generations, including contemporary artists such as Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare.
Six part anthology with chapters on the work of the Black Theatre Forum and the histories of Black and Asian theatres, histories of the major theatre companies, a document of the Sikh diaspora's uproar over Behzti and issues of censorship, a critical interrogation of several dramatists and autobiographical essays by theatremakers.
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
This book writes explores the South Asian music scene within the study of race and identity uncovering the crucial role its expressions – from Hip-hop, Qawwali and Bhangra through Soul, Indie and Jungle – have played in a new urban cultural politics.
Exhibition catalogue. Since the early 1980s, Chinese society has been reconstructed at a furious pace. The works presented here are concerned with the artists’ surrounding society and environment, as well as the question of how to establish a connection with the world ‘here and now’. Besides articles studying the various issues concerning the development of contemporary Chinese art, this publication also provides an introduction to each of the participating artists. In Chinese and English.
Based on a new performance series the artist began in May at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art as part of the ‘Made in China’ exhibition.
Booklet charting the first phase of the homonymous project involving artists from China and the UK reflecting upon issues of gender and body. In Chinase and English language.
Video documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Photographic documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Video documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Photographic documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Photographic documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Video documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Photographic documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Photographic documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Photographic documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Video documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Photographic documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Video documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Photographic documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Video documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Photographic documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival. This is part 2 of 2 dvds.
Video documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival. This is part 1 of 2 dvds.
Photographic documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Still images from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.
Video documentation from VITAL 07 – International Chinese Live Art Festival.