Consisting of twelve chapters written by leading scholars in the field, and a long interview with Schlingensief himself, the book will provide the reader with the first comprehensive study of the intriguing body of work that Schlingensief has developed over the last thirty years.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Exhibition catalogue; Summerhall, 2/8 – 24/9 2017.
A practical handbook on the lost art of getting lost, reading the signs around you, following their lead, and creating your own.
Explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres.
In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. By including performances regardless of their country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals the breathtaking variety of practices used in performance work today.
A film about the future by Eva Meyer-Keller, Hanna Sybille Müller and the children who took part in the performance project Building after Catastrophes.
Documentation from the DIY13 project: a collective process of devising and then performing a public action, over the course of a weekend.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Whether he’s creating a dance composed solely of everyday actions, working with an ensemble of children, or running a “dancing museum,” Charmatz’s work experiments with the body as a vessel for subjectivity, history, and collective action.
Exhibition catalogue. Biennale Arte 2017, 57th International Art Exhibition – Viva Arte Viva. 13 May – 26 November 2017.
A project based on a hypotethical (hypothetical and ethical) situation (political, social, military, security, natural catastrophy …) in which the citizens of highly developed countries (mainly from the West) would be forced to leave their country and look for a temporary home in another country.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Exploring movements through private-public space in the city, the impact of urban surroundings on us and our relations with each other.
Collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre.
In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. By including performances regardless of their country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals the breathtaking variety of practices used in performance work today.
A journal of a forty something mother/artist with two sons aged 5 and 13.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Artist catalogue produced for the solo performance “Masha Serghyeevna” (Bluecoat, Liverpool 2009), also gathering an overview of the artist's work between 2004-2009.
Curated by LADA for Something Human's Cross-Cultural Live Art Project 2014 (CCLAP), this programme draws on resources housed in LADA’s Study Room and materials acquired for it’s current Restock Rethink Reflect research project on Live Art and Feminism. Featured artists will include Áine Phillips, Monica Ross, Anne Bean, Kira O’Reilly, Noëmi Lakmaier and La Ribot.
Between 2013-2014 LOW PROFILE were Artsadmin bursary supported artists. As part of their bursary, LOW PROFILE presented a showcase titled, The Event Formerly Known As Stand Ins at Toynbee Studios, producing a newly updated version of the LOW PROFILE newspaper for this event.
Immersive Life Practices talks to Chicago-based artists and authors about life as an art practice and art as a life practice. The contributors explore a range of concerns, from how to be holistic, ethical, or practical; to how to balance life and work; to formal questions of how to represent a never-ending project.
Review of the performance One Thing Follows Another by Gail Priest and Jane McKernan, at Performance Space in Sydney, Australia, August 2014.
This book investigates the daily social drama that positions people with disabilities as figures of tragedy, stigma or pity, and the aesthetics, politics and ethics of performance practices that intervene very directly in this drama.
Catalogue of exhibition held at the Jüdisches Museum Munich 26/02-09/06 2014.
Book resulted from Townley & Bradby's ongoing project “Artists-As-Parents-As-Artists”, about their experiences of combining parenthood and creative practice. This publication combines drawings and photographs by the artists, and two essays by Frances Williams and Judith Stewart.
Publication part of the The Survivalist Series 2013/2014 project produced and commissioned by CAAPO.
Catalogue of the exhibition at Axel Vervoordt Gallery (27 October – 3 December 2011).
A Field Guide to Getting Lost is a provocative investigation into the nature of loss, losing and being lost. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
A selection of of non-fictional works delving into the philosophical exploration of ordinary spaces. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
This exhibition catalogue documents the work of artists casting light upon the relation between the individual and the systems that encircle our modern life.
A comprehensive selection of Vito Acconci's works, including a DVD of three 20 min videos in which he speaks about his realized and unrealized projects.
This monograph includes both extensive visual documentation from throughout Vito Acconci's career and a wide selection of his writings.
In this collection of humorous illustrations and text, Finley shows us how to make the most of our dysfunctional qualities.
Vito Acconci in conversation at Acconci Studio, New York with the Halpern-Rogath Curatorial Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania
Nothing In My Pockets is a sound diary, concieved for the Atelier de Creation Radiophonique de France Culture, kept between July and October 2003. An intimate journey into the artist's personal universe. 2 CD's are presented with previously unpublished visual and text documentation.
Extract from Soya “Sauce and Ketchup Fight” street performance intervention in Trafalgar Square by Cai Yuan and Jian Jun Xi artistic duo known as “Mad for Real”.
Part of a series of artists’ films, documentaries and dialogues reflecting the potential of marginal artforms and intense ideas within popular media..
Part of a bilingual series of DVD presenting performance documentations, artist’ work and interviews
Exhibition in Brussels October and November 2013.
How to make your own mis-guided tour or walk.
Artists’ poetic prose on objects and the everyday.
Information pack, press reviews, photographs and marketing material from Back to Back Theatre’s performance piece Small Metal Objects (2005)
This collection of essays surveys the performance and promise of contemporary global artist-run centres and initiatives within the historical contexts that saw their emergence.
Designed to be performed in a sheltered outdoor civic space, Small Metal Objects seeks to realise the inner realm and simultaneously re-interpret the exterior urban environment as a new performance landscape. Running time 45 minutes.
Publication and 2 DVDs, one multimedia, one audio/video.
A collection of documents of works by Those Environmental Artists, including audience questionnaires, project descriptions and promotional material.
In Radical Gestures, the first comprehensive history of feminist performance art in North America within the social context of the feminist movement and avant-garde art from the 1970s to 2000, Jayne Werk shows that artists drew from feminist politics to create works that, following a long period of modernist aesthetic detachment, made a unique contribution to the re-politicization of art.
Almost 50 years since the publication of Ono’s conceptual instructions book, Grapefruit, Acorn is a collection of conceptual instructions and dot drawings, originally written for a website event and published here for the first time.
‘Topos’ is a psychographic landscape manifested in singular hermetic worlds, portraits, rituals narratives, thought problems. Topos is a collaborative undertaking of artists as both non-experts and professional pragmatists.
Staging Black Feminisms sets out to challenge perceptions of black women’s theatre work as inherently feminist. Drawing on black feminist theories of identity and theories of black and feminist performance form, it analyses key themes such as migration, motherhood, sexuality, mixed race identity and interracial relationships in a range of late-twentieth and early twenty-first century black British women’s plays and performances.