Forty years since the publication of Naseem Khan’s seminal report The Arts Britain Ignores, how much has changed?
Tells the story of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted longform post to today’s digital newsletters and social media threads.
A toolkit with a mission to look to the future: to support long-term change across the arts sector by sharing knowledge, providing expert support, and encouraging take-up of an intersectional approach to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Part of The Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Publication on the Summer School delivered by Create (Dublin) and Counterpoints Arts (London).
The first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal Art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Shows why cognitive injustice underlies all other dimensions; global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice.
Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? This book argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the ‘homophobic migrant’ who is rendered by society as hateful, homophobic and disposable.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work.
Short programme of the project which saw 2DL invite other artists into a conversation on identity.
Intended to help cultural organisations and their governing bodies meet ethical and reputational challenges with a greater sense of confidence, this report stems from a What Next? discussion about the difficult situations organisations can find themselves in when an action sparks controversy, for example, the presentation of a divisive piece of work, or a contentious sponsorship deal.
On Les Ballets Africains, Adzido, Phoenix and Irie! at Sadler's Wells, Autumn 1990.
Explores the development of South Asian dance and the changing priorities it has been given by funding agencies.
The first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Khan describes her unusual mixed family background and the pioneering role she played from the sixties onwards in the recognition of ethnic and minority arts.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent
A Culture Change Guide.
A Culture Change Guide.
A Culture Change Guide.
A Culture Change Guide.
A Culture Change Guide.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
A collection of polemical writings, assaults, comments and theoretical discussions and analysis that appeared in reaction to the eponymous video, made in Belgrade, in 2007.
In Serbian and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Case studies, workshops and surveys analyse the barriers and opportunities arts organisations face in playing a civic role.
Publication of the third Strategic Meeting for Directors and Theatremakers, focusing on the work of professionals in Europe and the Arab world. Includes transcripts in English and Arabic.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Profiles established ensemble groups from inner-city Los Angeles, small-town northern California, African-American South, multicultural southern Texas, low-income central Appalachia, economically struggling South Bronx New York, and cross-continental Native America.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The wuthors talk about repetition as an internal and integral structuring device in Rajni's trilogy of works, Mr Quiver (2004-6), Dinner with America (2006-8), and Glorious (2009-13), using the meandering form of walking and conversation to think through the circular, incremental and bodily processes within the performance work.
From Medieval guilds to today’s social networks, Sennett’s book explores the nature of co-operation, why it has become weak and how it can be strengthened.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).
At the 2015 DASH symposium ‘Awkward Bastards’, artist and CEO of Shape Arts, Tony Heaton posed the question “Is the Disability Arts movement a forgotten movement? In response to this, DASH created a new book that aims to show that Disability arts is alive, well and demands recognition and a place within art history.
A book on the work of Pakistani artist and writer who has been based in London since 1964. The volume brings together a selection of his articles, essays and correspondence with gallery directors and funding bodies, interspersed with documentation of his multi-disciplinary work. Introduction by art critic Guy Brett.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Film by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, for the LAUK Gathering, at Watershed, Bristol on 12 February 2015
A collectio of texts and images on the work of the German choreographer and dramaturg. Photos by Rosa Frank, Luca Giacomo Schulte, Jacqueline Chambord and Raimund Hoghe. Texts in English, French, German.
A short film mixing animation, live-art, spoken word and an original soundworld to challenge the absence of disability art.
This report defines practical steps and frameworks for good practice of collaboration between visual artists, publicly-funded institutions, communities and audiences.
Special issue of the Australian magazine (December 2013/January 2014) dedicated to art and disability programs, projects, artists and companies
Fireworks is a short collection of provocational essays aimed at generating debate inside the cultural sector regarding its current practice and possible future(s).
Illustrated publication, in Polish with some English text in the Summary section.
Catalogue of exhibition part of Transeuropa Festival 2011 presenting artistic/social projects engaged in queer rights surveying the problematics of equality and diversity across Europe. In Polish and English.
Papers from Artistic and cultural identity in Latin America, a conference convened by Arts International in collaboration with Memorial da América Latina, Sept. 23-25, 1991. In both English and Spanish.
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).
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.
Parallel Lines journal,