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Corset Cut

Artist/Author: Clare Thornton | Reference: D2280 | Type: DVD

A performance for video, shot in one take; features the artist being cut out of a corset by her mother.

4mins/silent/single play or loop/4:3

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983

Artist/Author: Tim Lawrence | Reference: P3252 | ISBN: 978-0822362029 | Type: Publication

Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification.

Syxty Sorriso & Altre Storie

Artist/Author: Flora Pitrolo and Antonio Syxty | Reference: P3237 | Type: Publication

The archive-book of the 1978-1982 works of performance artist Antonio Syxty, active in Milan in connection with the basement theatre Out Off.

How is feminism like shopping? - The politics of boredom in Karen Finley’s The Jackie Look

Artist/Author: Kara Jesella | Reference: A0699 | Type: Article

Review of the performance in which Finley delivers a lecture called Life of a Glamour Girl in the character of Jackie Kennedy.

Live Culture / Leigh Bowery at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery

Artist/Author: Leigh Bowery (film made by Cerith Wyn Evans) | Digital Reference: EF5209 | Type: Digital File

Documentation from Bowery’s 1988 performance at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery

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Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular

Artist/Author: Midori Yamamura | Reference: P2892 | ISBN: 978-0262029476 | Type: Publication

Yamamura eschews the usual critical fascination with Kusama’s biography to consider the artist in her social and cultural milieu. By examining Kusama’s art alongside that of her peers, Yamamura offers a new perspective on her career.

Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

Artist/Author: Yayoi Kusama | Reference: P2863 | ISBN: 978-1849762137 | Type: Publication

This engaging autobiography tells the story of Kusama's life and extraordinary career in her own words, revealing her as a fascinating figure and maverick artist who channels her obsessive neuroses into an art that transcends cultural barriers.

Yayoi Kusama

Artist/Author: Laura Hoptman, Udo Kultermann and Yayoi Kusama | Reference: P2888 | ISBN: 978-0714839202 | Type: Publication

The first ever monograph on the astounding 40-year career of this established, deeply daring and tirelessly experimental artist, who represented Japan at the Venice Biennale in 1993. It was published to coincide with an exhibition in 2000 at the Serpentine Gallery.

Leigh Bowery - The Life and Times of an Icon

Artist/Author: Sue Tilley | Reference: P2868 | ISBN: 0-340-69310-X | Type: Publication

A biography and tribute to a colourful unique and larger than life character, written by his close friend, Sue Tilley.

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