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Guys
A photographic series.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983
Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification.
Visual Cultures as Seriousness
What is seriousness exactly, and where does it reside? Is it a desirable value in contemporary culture? Or is it bound up with elite class and institutional cultures?
It’s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells - review
Book review.
Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation
Examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.
It’s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells
Citing Howells’ permissive mantra as its title, the book includes new writing from leading scholars and artists, as well as writing by Howells himself, an extensive interview, scores, and visual materials, which together offer new insight into the artist’s ground-breaking process.
Walking Failure
A five-minute performance piece mixing movement and lipsynching.
Directed by Sam Williams.
6'15''
Queer Dramaturgies
Starting from the premise that live performance is experienced in a material, local context, the chapters analyse the intricate and complex workings of queer dramaturgy within specific venues, cities, nations or transnationally.
Queer Kinship in the New York Underground: On the ‘Life and Legend’ of Jackie Curtis
A reading of Curtis' wedding performances and his persona.
The Cockettes
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s. Includes deleted scenes, interview with directors and a booklet with Damon Wise film notes.
100 minutes
Stella
Inspired by the true story of the strange life and lonely death of Mr. Ernest Boulton – one half of the infamous Victorian cross-dressing duo Fanny and Stella – Neil Bartlett’s play is an intimate meditation on the fine art of keeping one’s nerve as the lights go out.
Queer
Part of Whitechapel Gallery’s Documents of Contemporary Art series, a collection of anthologies which collect writing on major themes and ideas in contemporary art. This is the first anthology to bring together artist’s writings and conversations about queer practice, describing and examining the ways in which they have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action and as a basis from which to declare inassimilable difference.
