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.
Explores Ann Lee as the subject par excellence of contemporary neoliberal capitalism.
Delves into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered “doors”—entrances to visibility and recognition—that are actually “traps,” accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Explores how Marina Abramović has subtly incorporated the law to her economic and professional advantage.
Brought together 75 UK based artists onto the Birmingham Hippodrome stage in a snapshot of the performing arts in 2016. Over the course of a single day they learnt and recreated the opening audition scene from the 1985 film 'A Chorus Line'.
Part of LADA Screens 12. The film was available online 9 - 22 June 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel. Includes two version of the video, in two different resolutions.
On Tino Sehgal’s Ann Lee and the robotisation of the ageing body.
The 7th issue of the newspaper is the first one to focus on a region; it commits to reconsidering Americas colonial stories and their marks on its present global condition. In multiple languages.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of dance, theatre, music, live and performance art, and activism to form a sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners.
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)
Calls out to freedom in the capitalist commons, within the cultural production of the high street.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A publication exploring how the arts sector can better support artists at key stages in their practice.
A comprehensive study of queer identities and communities across Asia, re-envisioning the queer through Asian perspectives.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
The preeminent posthumanist shows how the history of Western civilization can be read as a suppression and return of rage.
In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond recognition—but we need more surrogacy, not less!
Examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism.
A study of post-millennial solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Revisits and resuscitates the forgotten heritage of a politicised theatre group – ‘Al Assifa’.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Returns to Satoshi Nakamoto's canonical text on a peer-to-peer electronic cash system as a Rosetta Stone that reveals the far-reaching implications of decentralisation.
Follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism.
Explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless.
Brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer, covering the period 2004 – 2016.
An exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society.
Based on the results of an anonymous survey sent to more than 8,000 galleries in the US, UK, and Germany, this is an insightful examination of the business of selling art.
What is it that makes humans, human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever.
Tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform.
Article from The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies. names the raw, sensuous, delicate, multi-dimensional, secret intelligence shared by sentient beings at the moment of their extended encounter.
In misc. folder 7
A map of small businesses.
Explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age.
What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums and some of the world's most valuable artworks are used as a fictional currency in a global futures market that has nothing to do with the works themselves? Can we distinguish between creativity and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives?
Performance video: The Marlborough Pub and Theatre, Brighton, 2015 (42mins)
For a digital copy see EF5286.
Dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time.
Anthology of interdisciplinary essays which critically examines the interlocking themes of artistic authorship, authenticity, and legacy from legal, art market, and art historical perspective.
How-to guide for people looking to make a stand. Included are solid pieces of advice, practical tips and inspirational stories from those who have already successfully stood up and made a difference.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A toolkit of methodologies; part of Let's Get Classy: the Study Room Guide on Live Art, class and cultural privilege.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Short programme of the project which saw 2DL invite other artists into a conversation on identity.
A catalogue that collects, anticipates, and activates the fantastic experiences and happenings of Fusebox 2018.
On shrinking contexts for dance in London.
Two articles discussing funding patterns in early 80's
Explores the agency of the pseudonym over a sustained period of time through two case studies in particular: the Guerrilla Girls, an all-female collective working anonymously, and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, the first British performance artist to be nominated for the Turner Prize.
The art of sloth and reverie as oppositional (in)activities.
Papers from the conference, held in Glasgow in December 1990. The conference addressed the implications for the arts of the political and economic changes in Eastern Europe.
Short video made for the DIY 13 project, a briefly-lived modelling agency set upon depicting the fantasy-fiction average lifestyle that is celebrated in corporate imagery
Publication recording the quarter century of Acme Studios – exploring its purpose, the needs behind it and its evolution.
Presents the preoccupations, activities and achievements emerging from the ongoing dialogue between two of the UK's leading art institutions, affordable studio provider Acme Studios and art college Central Saint Martins.
Publication documenting a project in which three artists took up paid, part-time employment.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
For over five years Harrison documented and recorded information about nearly every aspect of her daily routine, amassing reams of data in the process. But these laborious, demanding and introverted processes took their toll. Something had to give. Ellie had to quit!