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Touching home : an interview with May Chan

Artist/Author: Christine Conley | Reference: A0740 | Type: Article

Interview with Hong Kong-born poet and performance artist, currently active in Kingston, Ontario. Considers aspects of domestic life in relation to the artist's experience as a woman in both Chinese and Canadian cultures.

Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

Artist/Author: Marina Abramovic | Reference: P3202 | ISBN: 978-0241235645 | Type: Publication

This memoir spans Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. 

Is the Artist Present? - Live (and conscious) art at a Borderline

Artist/Author: Dror Harari | Editor: Ric Allsopp | Reference: A0727 | Type: Article

The essay interrogates Hadas Ophrat's piece Insomnia.

Job Centre Junior

Artist/Author: Amelia Beavis-Harrison | Reference: P3179 | ISBN: 978-82-690680-0-9 | Type: Publication

Newspaper accompanying the performance installation which focuses on how policy change directly affects low income families through austerity measures that sanction welfare claimants and push people into vulnerable positions. Includes interviews and performance script.

The Things We Leave Behind Zine

Artist/Author: Teresa Albor | Reference: P3139 | Type: Publication

Zine of the research-based project, which uses objects left behind by those who are seeking a better life and/or have to move to survive.  The objects were left behind on the Greek island of Lesvos and at a transition centre in Serbia and have been “borrowed” by people living in London, used to start conversations with young people, in installations and as part of performances.

‘Illegal’ Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders

Artist/Author: Shahram Khosravi | Reference: P3126 | ISBN: 978-0230336742 | Type: Publication

Explores the issue of borders and border crossing in the era of globalization and transnationalism, analyzing how the nation-state system regulates movements of people.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

The Story of ‘M’

Artist/Author: SuAndi | Reference: P3102 | ISBN: 978-1786821157 | Type: Publication

A moving tribute to the life and death of the artist’s white mother mother who raised her mixed-race children in the face of frequent racism 1960s but never let them forget they were of African descent and to be proud of their heritages. Includes selected poems by the same author.

See also D2230.

Ragnar Kjartansson

Editor: Leila Hasham | Reference: P3099 | ISBN: 978-3863359706 | Type: Publication

Published as part of the eponymous exhibition at the Barbican 14 July – 4 September. Surveys the Icelandic artist's practice from his student work to today.

This item can be found in the locked glass cabinet.

Emergency INDEX Vol 5

Editor: Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary, Katie Gaydos | Reference: P3098 | ISBN: 978-1-937027-75-9 | Type: Publication

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.

On Becoming My Grandmother

Artist/Author: Veronica Cordova de la Rosa | Reference: P3076 | Type: Publication

Publication documenting de la Rosa's participation in the 'A world of your own workshop', led by Geraldine Pilgrim.

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