Toolkit from the network of socially progressive residential artist communities.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Video. Commissioned by the Science Museum and Apples and Snakes as part of the Faltered States show. Performed at the Science Museum on 21 March 2003 and at Battersea Arts Centre on 28 March 2003.Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Unedited documentation of the 2006 street action. Part of TARIDS, Ispwich.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The article interrogates the use of amateur and professional disabled performers in the emerging strain of performance practice known as ‘performing failure’.
Analysis of representation and interculturalism in Back to Back Theatre's production.
Explores the processes through which specific populations are figured as ‘revolting’ as well as the practices through which these populations ‘revolt’ against their subjectification.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)
Now regarded as a landmark film but virtually disowned by MGM when it was first produced, Browning’s film, set in a travelling circus, works as an old-fashioned morality play against avarice. Browning used a collection of handicapped actors and performers for the circus community, which initially welcomes the beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra into their group when she marries midget circus owner, Hans.
60 minutes.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).
A publication detailing the projects delivered through Unlimited; includes a collection of 16 postcards.
A lasting trace of and a vehicle for the Working Press, a collective publishing imprint which had the subtitle books by and about Working Class Artists, 1986-1996. The publication highlights some important works by working-class artists while providing a valuable resource for anybody interested in working with archive material.
Meet the strangest people who ever lived, and read about: the notorious love affairs of midgets. Originally printed in a small edition and withdrawn after one month by the publisher, the book was out of print for nearly 20 years.