Bodies move freely through an ambiguous urban “utopia”…or do they? Shot on 16mm film and digital video.
7 mins
A popular lesbian ‘commercial,’ 110 images of sensual touching montages in A, B, C, D rolls of ‘kinaesthetic’ editing.
4 mins.
Feminist science fiction that anticipates a post-patriarchal future.
A heady brew of feminist critique of the art world and extreme body horror.
Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.’A genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the punishing force of desire.
Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.
The second issue of the ADHD artist zine.
The first issue of the ADHD artist zine.
The first major survey of the artist’s interdisciplinary practices. Bringing together newly commissioned and other writings by major thinkers in and beyond visual and performance studies, and extensive documentation of the artist’s work from two decades of practice, it navigates through and between performance, biotechnical practices, image-making, and writing.
Asking urgent questions about drag today, Louche takes a critical and constructive approach to queer performance culture: its past, present and future. Featuring contributions from over thirty artists, writers and illustrators.
Publication made as part of a choreographic work investigating the relationship between theoretical, aesthetic and performing aspects of an artistic work. Includes two essays: ÆØÅ and Pointing back.
15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Through personal essays, interviews, and poetic verse, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the reader's conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection.
Seminal but rarely seen performance, recorded at Club Lingerie in Los Angeles, California, 1984.The folder also includes a short promotional video.
Part of LADA Screens 8. The film was availble online between 29 March – 11 April 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel.
Female artists; suggestions to Nick Serota, as Tate expands to a fourth London gallery.
Liquid damage on publication.
A consideration of 'new dance' in response to writings of Luce Irigaray.
An interview with women at the forefront of art and technology.
Liquid damage on publication.
On Kollwitz's reception in America, 1900-1960
Liquid damage on publication.
An interview with The Guerrilla Girls. Liquid damage on publication.
Part of The Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
On female photographers who photograph men.
Liquid damage on publication.
Works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
On Harbourfront Centre 2014 World Stage Festival, Toronto.
A typeface narrative revolving around an I, a pair of ravenous eyes, a mouth, and a peptic ulcer called O.
What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A graphic novel adaptation of the performance Splat! by The Famous.
Resonating with the ethos of open dialogue and the experimentation of women artists’ collectives in the 1970s and 1980s, the publication constructs a dynamic, open, and collaborative arena that foregrounds practices of resistance, collectivity, and self-organization. Exhibition catalogue: Cooper Gallery, 28 October 2016 – 16 December 2016.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A comprehensive study of queer identities and communities across Asia, re-envisioning the queer through Asian perspectives.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A study of post-millennial solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Carolee Schneemann in conversation with Bonnie Marranca and Claire MacDonald
In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond recognition—but we need more surrogacy, not less!
Issue 4 featuring: Emma-cecilia Ajanki, Channing Tatum, Figs In Wigs, Igor & Moreno, Rowland Hill, Rukeya, Samir Kennedy, Theo Clinkard, Leah Marojevic, Trajal Harell, Ultimate Dancer, Robbie Thomson, Augusto Corrieri, Rowland Hill, Marica Innocente, Maartje Nevejan
Includes a document with translations and the following performances:
1. En un fist fast
2. La caida del ser
3. Vigilia sex
4. Varios perfos expo
5. De docta ignor lombrices
6. De docta ignor desentarrarme
7. Pepafono 3 versiones
8. Ponme la mano aquí macorina
9. Sea anemone and the hermit crab
10. Embajadora de la buena voluntad
11. ¡Ah no!
12. Violence and tenderness
13. Cagandola a diestra y siniestra
14. Sweet sixteen
15. Times goes by and I can not forget you
Catalogue which accompanies films exploring the social, political and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary Islamic societies.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Exhibition catalogue. 12/11 – 4/12 1987. In German.
Draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Catalogue of the exhibition of Wilke's last work. January 8 – February 19, 1994, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Charts the historical course of performance in Australia from the happenings of the 1960s, through body art in the 1970s, towards a more political body in the 1980s.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
From Acker's earliest interviews–filled with playful, evasive, and counter-intuitive responses–to the last interview before her death where she reflects on the state of American literature, these interviews capture the writer at her funny and surprising best.
Examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery.
A portable archive that features Montano’s journal writings during 1984-1998, 18 of her ecstatic tantric tales, 52 of her drawings, 119 photo documents related to her performances, 13 essays and interviews by art historians, curators and writers.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Provides a survey of the history of first wave feminism in British theatre, from the London premiere of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in 1889 through the militant suffrage movement.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
The first book of the women’s liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics.
A 50-year retrospective of the sculpture of the pioneer feminist performance artist who explores and dissolves the boundaries between art and life.
Ruminates on the significance of physical and mental roaming for black freedom.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, the book looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance, pedagogy, identity and culture.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).