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On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century: Revised Edition
Through her engaged and articulate essays in the Village Voice, C. Carr has emerged as the cultural historian of the New York underground and the foremost critic of performance art. On Edge brings together her writings to offer a detailed and insightful history of this vibrant brand of theatre from the late 70s to today. It represents both Carr’s analysis as a critic and her testament as a witness to performances which, by their very nature, can never be repeated.
Lessons of Decal
“A love letter to artistic research, Seita’s writing celebrates the desire, disorientation, and discovery to be found in feminist practices of reading. A potent reminder of generative passin thatwe can only wish motivated all critical inquiry.” -Gordon Hall
Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979
The book explores the textual work of Art & Language, Victor Burgin and others; the New Sculpture being produced by those such as Richard Long and Michael Craig-Martin; and the artists who addressed society and politics, including Stephen Willats and Margaret Harrison.
On the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, April-August 2016.
Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr.
Editor Chon A. Noriega collects ephemera gathered from Gamboa’s three-decade-long dadaistic career. The book includes interviews with artists, poetry, fiction, collaged images, documentation of public and staged performances, photographic portraits of Chicano men, and political writings, including an essay on public schools reflecting his son’s first year in kindergarten.
The Pina Bausch, Sourcebook: The making of Tanztheater
A compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch’s history and the development of Tanztheater as a new form.
PPPPPP: Poems Performance Pieces Proses Plays Poetics: Poems Performance Pieces Prose Plays Poetics
The first book of Kurt Schwitters’ writings translated into English.
Atos de Falo documentation
Catalogue which documents construction of works and relevant texts from the Atos de Falo festival in Brazil. In Portuguese and English
Gina Pane, Situation ideale
Catalogue for an exhibition of Pane’s work at the Hangar a Bananes, Nantes in 2009, curated by Blandine Chavanne
In Time: A Collection of Live Art Case Studies
The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings
Gathers together Fusco’s finest writings since 1995 and includes critical essays by Jean Fisher and Caroline Vercoe that interpret her work.
