This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
*currently unavailable*
Investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance.
Live art interventions by disabled artists in the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, May 2012
The Disabled Avant Garde (aka DAG), comprising performance artists Katherine Araniello and Aaron Williamson, along with eight other disabled artists from Wales stage an ‘alien invasion’ – a two-day encampment on the banks of the River Severn in Newtown on the 9th and 10th of September 2011. This performance event tests perceptions of what makes us ‘insiders’ or ‘outsiders’ in society and the art world. Subtitled and audio description DVD.
Study Boxes contain hand picked selections of DVDs, books and other materials from the LADA Study Room around specific themes. Installed in Festival hubs and other locations, and curated in dialogue with partners, each Study Box can hold between four to ten items and can be used by audiences for a quick browse or a day-long study. After the events the Boxes are returned to the Study Room and listed in this Guide so that users can explore these themes and materials during their visit to the LADA Study Room.
Six international performance artists collaborate on a project exploring invisible disability through ‘living art’ practice. CAUTION includes one DVD of video works and one CD of talking text.
A critical framework for understanding and interpreting the new public art that has emerged over the last two decades. Featuring twelve essays from editor Suzanne Lacy: and eleven eminent artists, curators, and critics. Chapters titled as follows: An Unfashionable Audience, Public Constructions, Connective Aesthetics: Art After Individualism, To Search for the Good and Make It Matter, From Art-mageddon to Gringostroika: A Manifesto against Censorship, Looking Around: Where We Are, Where We Could Be, Whose Monument Where? Public Art in a Many-Cultured Society, Common Work, by Jeff Kelley, Success and Failure When Art Changes, Word of Honor, Debated Territory. This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).
Channel 4 documentary; part of an event at the ICA in collaboration with the arts collective DHSS.
Can also be found in the Access all Areas : Live Art and Disability book and accompanying DVD: P1864