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Small Acts: Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of Time
Documents the work of fourteen performance artists who marked the personal and political resonances of the new Millennium in a series of site-specific actions. Contrasting with the epic, populist and homogenising nature of the official celebrations, these works focused on forgotten and ephemeral experiences, enacting small but significant interventions in the public sphere.
this moment: missives from another world - thirty years of performances photographed by Bob Raymond
A book on the photography of Raymond, who documented performance art in Boston for thirty years until his untimely death in 2012.
Transformance programme
Exhibition / project programme. Tempting Failure, 17-21 July 2018.
Histories of Performance Documentation: Museum, Artistic, and Scholarly Practices
Traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards, considering the unique challenges of documenting live events.
Documenting Performance
The first book to provide a collection of key writings about the process of documenting performance, focused not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance.
Lexicon for an Affective Archive
An international collection offering glimpses into the intimate relations inherent in finding, remembering (or imagining), and creating an archive.
Walkwalkwalk: Stories from the Exeter Archive
Includes essays by Phil Smith and Cathy Turner of Wrights and Sites, and a transcript of the talk given at the Hidden City Symposium in October 2008.
Interval Breathing Small Displacements
An overview of Poro: Brazilian company engaged in poetic, ironic and political actions. In Portuguese and English.
Nailwraps: Influences
Documentation of the event series “Influences’; collaborations with groups of women from across London, exploring current attitudes to gender equality, feminism, female expectations and individual agency. Collected material.
COLAB Editions: The Publication
The Publication follows the journey of ten collaborations, created by Co-Lab performance art program together with Savvy Contemporary Art Laboratory in Berlin.
Lee Lozano: Dropout Piece
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer explores one of Lee Lozano’s most challenging and elusive works, ‘Dropout Piece’.
Animal Shelter: Art Sex Literature
“a loose collection of texts, sequenced like a mixtape” and dedicated to visions of real freedom in the present. Includes: Moyra Davey on writer’s block, Walter Benjamin, and Jane Bowles Bruce Hainley channels Paloma Picasso to jot some notes on Margie Schnibbe and the “explicit.” Bifo on Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes’s Wide Shut, and the relation between irony and cynicism Paul Virilio on seascape, inertia, and the Zynthia cyclone Chris Kraus and Sylvère Lotringer on George Porcari’s ambient photography Shlomo Sand and Sylvère Lotringer on contemporary Israel, myth, and the invention of Zionism. Alistair McCartney on early 90s bohemia in Hyde Park, Perth, Australia. Dodie Bellamy on queer subculture and the “Goldilocks syndrome.” Veronica Gonzalez’s short story on friendship, loss, and Los Angeles Rachel Kushner’s short story that takes up pubescence, motorcycles, and Flaubert’s lewd correspondence from the Nile. Eileen Myles on Winston Leyland’s legendary 70s tabloid, Gay Sunshine.
