A critical examination of the varieties of multiculturalism and the way they structure difference.
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)
Thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary.
An exploration of what it means to be fabulous—and why eccentric style, fashion, and creativity are more political than ever.
Explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje—“mixedness” or “hybridity”—and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America’s infamously black–white racial regime.
Shows why cognitive injustice underlies all other dimensions; global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice.
A sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society.
Short programme of the project which saw 2DL invite other artists into a conversation on identity.
About a conference on black dance, from the conference chair.
The essays in Women, the Arts and Globalization demonstrate that women in the arts are rarely positioned at the centre of the art market, and the movement of women globally (as travelers or migrants, empowered artists/scholars or exiled practitioners), rarely corresponds with the dominant models of global exchange. Rather, contemporary women's art practices provide a fascinating instance of women's eccentric experiences of the myriad effects of globalization.
Interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The contributors to this book, writing from a variety of subject disciplines and interests, explore a range of the uses of autobiography from the nineteenth-century to the present day, and from Africa, USA, the Middle East, France, New Zealand, as well as Britain.
Exhibition catalogue; Arts Centre Melbourne, 11 February – 21 May 2017
Examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.
On Project O's performances at the Forest Fringe Microfestival, Progress Festival, Theatre Centre, Toronto, Canada, February 2016
A new publication celebrating the various communities of barbershops across East London. Comissioned by CUT Festival: The Art of Barbering.
Analysis of representation and interculturalism in Back to Back Theatre's production.
Using memories of her experience of masquerades in Nigeria, the artist employs movement and masks of hair as power objects, which conceal and reveal the black body, the black female.
Interview conducted by Lynnette Morgan, as part of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme residency.
Nicolae, himself a Romanian Roma, gives voice to the Roma cause, offering a precise and candid look at their current situation.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Inquires into the contemporary moment through the lens of Roma artistic and intellectual practices, gathering knowledge from the Roma way of life.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Exhibition catalogue with documentation from the installations in Cardiff, Portsmouth, Derry, London and Berlin.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Article on the eponymous exhibition which aims to raise awareness and purge the discrimination against Roma communities. In Hungarian and English.
In misc folder 7. Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
From Medieval guilds to today’s social networks, Sennett’s book explores the nature of co-operation, why it has become weak and how it can be strengthened.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).
A vibrant introduction to theatre that engages with stories, conditions and experiences of migration.
Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance – from Ancient Athens to the present day.
The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices.
From Tate Papers no.12
Found in miscellaneous article folder #5B
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Beginning with discussions of the pioneering generation of artists such as Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling, Chambers candidly discusses the problems and progression of several generations, including contemporary artists such as Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare.
Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self- objectification, transforming themselves into art objects.
Lois Keidan discusses “Anniversary – an act of memory”, Monica Ross’s most recent series of work that took the form of a series of recitations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) from 2005 until her death in 2013. of Acts of Memory.
A study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude.
Fusco undermines notions of a monolithic Latino identity by examining the role of race in a broad spectrum of Latin American, U.S. and (to a lesser extent) British black and Latino culture and art. This result in a pastiche of autobiographical political essays and art criticism along with transcripts of performance pieces developed in collaboration with performance artist and poet Guillermo Gomez-Peña. These include Andres Serrano, Pepon Osorio, Lorna Simpson, Graciela Iturbide, Lourdes Grobet, Yolanda Andrade, Juan Sanchez, Ana Mendieta, Catalina Parra and the film collectives Black Audio and Sankofa.
This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Cultural Diversity in the Arts’ held in Amsterdam on February 9 and 10, 1993.
This CD-Rom is a virtual exhibition and teaching resource showcasing a citizenship project providing young people with a platform to express their views through the arts on issues of multiculturalism.
Collection of essays poems, and performance texts exploring the notion of hybrid culture.
A collection of essays, manifestos, performance texts and poetry.
Thirty texts written by Suzanne Lacy since 1974.
Also in this issue, articles on Ali G, ‘performing black’ (Rachel Garfield – ‘Just Who Does He Think He Is?’) and on ‘The Living Archive’.
On the subcultural milieu of contemporary body modification, focusing on the ways sexuality, gender and ethnicity are being reconfigured through new body technologies.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide on One to One Performance by Rachel Zerihan (P1320) and the Study Room Guide On Social Engagement and Participation by FrenchMottershead (P1290)
An encounter with Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes of La Pocha Nostra.
Argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism.
Part 1 – 28:17; Part 2 – 24:41
This item is part of the Study Room Guide: The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get by Robert Pacitti (P1100)