A report celebrating the successes of arts and cultural organisations in acting on national and international climate targets.
Includes: Pride (poem), Alter treego (poem), Fat Kid Manifesto (poem, extract from Fat Kid Running), Daring the City to Fall into it (poems + a short story), No guilt in Pleasure (zine)
The book brings Greta in her own words, collecting her speeches that have made history.
Through personal essays, interviews, and poetic verse, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the reader's conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection.
A film documenting the unsanctioned live performance in Tate Britain: in the run up to the international climate talks in Paris as the artists invited Tate to reconsider their sponsorship deal with BP, and to begin to erase this scar from their skin.
Part of LADA Screens 9. The film was availble online between 30 April and 13 May 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel.
The fourteen essays bringing together a unique gathering of artists, many of whome make works which arise out of responses to the situation or the environment in which they find themselves.
A short documentary made during a climate change summit, COP15, which took place in Copenhagen in December 2009.
This video was part of LADA Screens, and was available online from 30 November 2015 to 13 December 2015.
HD Video, 37 minutes.
On Mendieta's late 70s series, in which the artist trekked into the woods and marked the outlines of her body agains the earth.
A recipe book produced following a series of public events involving local South Essex foods, their source, preparation and consumption.
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)
Formulates a history and theory of biosemiotic and proto-biosemiotic thinking in order to open up new possibilities of contemporary social, philosophical, aesthetic and technological engagement.
Accompanies the performance and exhibition Four Legs Good, Compass Festival, 17-25 November 2018.
Acknowledging that the future of humankind is global, this volume explores the multi-faceted semantics of ecology in contemporary Indigenous theater and performance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Reveals a tradition of queer environmentalism in contemporary literature and film from the Americas.
Examines what it might mean to make theatre beyond the human.
Draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives.
In September 2018, during Labour Party conference in Liverpool, a group activists set sail for the Burbo Bank wind farm on board the good ship Discovery; this is the account of their adventures.
A young girl is abducted and smuggled aboard a boat bound upstream on an Indonesian river, through a landscape scarred by ecological destruction and historical greed. As her captors take her ever deeper into the jungle, her uncertain fate is compounded by the sense of her environment as a place of violence, destruction and jeopardy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.
Since 2007, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture has been the international reference point of the non-human turn in the visual arts. This volume gathers the richest interviews and the most thought-provoking essays featured over its forty installments thus far published.
Develops and encourages you to inhabit — through narratives or spatialized experiences — Deep Maps of places you want to understand in a robust, inclusive, and expansive ways, which is not possible with traditional mapping.
Draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged.
Exploring the ritual / performance / intervention that marks the tattoo-receivers journey from birth in parallel with the rise in carbon emissions that cause climate change.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Festival / exhibition catalogue. 6-18 October 2017.
In Croatian and English.
Twenty two 3 minute shorts directed by international filmmakers to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Toolkit from the network of socially progressive residential artist communities.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Documenting The Gluts trip to Copenhagen during the COP 15 Climate Summit.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, held at the NGBK Berlin, from November, 4th to December 23rd 2005. In German and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
A book of stories, stories written by activists from the front lines of resistance against capitalism and economic globalization. In German; for the English version see P0424.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide: A Bi(bli)ography of Insurrectionary Imaginati by John Jordan (P0793) and the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Part courtroom drama and part social satire, the play presents an intelligent portrait of farming and scientific communities in conflict and at the same time penetrates the complex science of genetically modified crops.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Documentation, including email, relevant media coverage and expert articles, on the Global Commons Institute.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Report by the 2016 Travel Fellowship holder.
Report by the 2016 Travel Fellowship holder.
Looking back on the experience of directing the world premiere of Svich's play at the University of Missouri.
Weaves together the various voices for the art collective to offer readers both an analysis and an experience of the group's performance: the inner voice of the performance; the critical voice of the witness; and the frustrating redactions reflecting Tate and BP's hidden contracts.
Publication on the project conducted in October 2016. The artist made hand-sewn garments, wearing only one until the next one was made, and exploring the relationship between art and ecology.
Explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.
Leading scholars, artists, and activists examine the role of the arts in articulating the social agendas of urban mega-events like Olympic Games and World Expos.
A portfolio of Artsadmin projects and performances. Includes postcards with technical, touring and artistic deatils/
Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company’s sponsorship of the arts in Britain.
Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, this is the first survey of immersive theories and practices for students, scholars and practitioners of contemporary performance. It includes interviews with immersive artists and examines key topics such as site-specific performance and immersive technologies.
Birthmark – a live unsanctioned performance was performed in the 1840s gallery of 'A BP Walk Through British Art' at Tate Britain on the 28th November, 2015, the start of the Paris climate talks.
Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow's project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art's participatory strategies.
This book explores the relationship between place and forms of thought and creative activity, relating Outlandia, an off-grid artists’ fieldstation, and the artists there, to the tradition of generative thinking and making structures that have included Goethe’s Gartenhaus in Weimar, Henry Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond and Dylan Thomas’s writing shack in Laugharne.
This book is an investigation of how the use of petroleum, in every aspect of our lives, limits our capacities to think about surviving climate breakdown, and how it shapes the things we do and inhibits our capacities to think future ways out of it. Pocket-size book.
This book explores the hedgerow from many different angles, through many different art-forms and with many different collaborators. Includes writing by Lucy Cash, Maddy Costa, Mary Paterson, Rajni Shah, Sue Palmer. Illustrations by Mel Sheppard. Pocket-size book in large folder.