Audio of the artist in discussion with Jospeh Morgan Scholfield. Event held on 13 February 2020.
Explores the early history of animal rights through the images and the people who harnessed their power.
Documenting more than seven years of social practice and research by Lucy Wright.
Documents a four-day walk made by the English Poet John Clare. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death. En route they bump into Macgillivray, Dr Simon Kovesi and the wizard Alan Moore. Meantime the journey is narrated by Toby’s father Freddie, a maverick actor who featured in numerous David Lynch films.
83 mins.
Explores Englishness, pseudo public space and what it is to be considered an unwelcome migratory visitor in contemporary Britain through the eyes of a particularly pesky Muscovy duck.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
When students at Oxford University called for a statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed, following similar calls by students in Cape Town, the significance of these protests was felt across continents. This was not simply about tearing down an outward symbol of British imperialism – a monument glorifying a colonial conqueror – but about confronting the toxic inheritance of the past, and challenging the continued underrepresentation of people of colour at universities.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
In this autobiography, Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence that led him to London. There in bedsits and cafes he found a world of brutality and comedy, of shortlived jobs and precarious relationships.
The essential reader for today's creative leaders and cultural practitioners, including original contributions by artists, scholars, activists, critics, curators and writers who examine the historical precedent of South Africa; the current cultural boycott of Israel; freedom of speech and self-censorship; and long-distance activism. It is about consequences and causes of cultural boycott.
Investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
A live documentary made in collaboration with a group of young people, set on the streets of Manchester. To take part you go online and choose from 3 people’s streams.
The book looks at theatre and performances that often occur quite literally as bombs are falling, as well as during times of ceasefire and in the aftermath of hostilities. Includes interviews with artists, short play extracts, and photographs.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
In the summer of 2006, the two artists travelled across the Pennine Way creating a choreographic pathway – a shared journey and celebration of walking as dance and dancer as traveller.
Arendt provides a historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism. The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and the rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it.
Richard Ashrowan considers the geopoetics of the Anglo/Scots borderline, travelling to several points on the border and beginning a meditation into the meanings that might be revealed within its landscape
In this book Durham looks at Englishness posing the question “who are you?” to the (presumed English) reader. Personal photographs mixed with conversation-like texts. Limited prin, signed by the artist.
Play collection.
Artist book: describes the measured environment of the newly built village of Cambourne through a series of drawings and pseudoscientific reports.
Towards a policy for cultural diversity for the English funding system : African, Caribbean, Asian and Chinese arts.
Documentation from the Live Art development agency project.
On public art in the YSP.
A DIY project which involved the group surviving 6 days in the wilderness of London and the South Downs.
Creative responses to links built through projects in China and England.
Documents a series of Bluecoat live art commissions presented in Liverpool 1996-7. Includes picture disk.
8 artists participate in a cross-media project about television
On the challenges facing policy and provision for Live Art in England.
Drawing on real places, Nightwalks creates a fragmented cityscape to be explored on CD-ROM.