Paper leaves and other constructions
a reading companion to Always Already
compiled and edited by Karen Christopher & Tara Fatehi Irani
Always Already is an 8-hour performance installation by Karen Christopher & Tara Fatehi Irani, which uses materials, text, sound and movement to explore the weaving together of plant, human and machine, including human/plant and human/machine hybrids.
Paper leaves and other constructions is a 32-page booklet, introducing the themes and content of the project, and responding to many of the questions that arose in the creative process. Drawing parallels between a path through life and one through the making of a particular work of performance, the booklet answers the question “how did you do that?”
The booklet includes contributions from Karen, Tara, Payman Kassaei (Professor of Mathematics, Kings College), Felipe Ribeiro (performance artist and researcher), Omikemi (poet), Eirini Kartsaki (performance writer and teacher), and an interview with Henry Dagg (sound sculptor and builder of experimental musical instruments).
“(…) What could be good practice, in a moment like this? What is the art organisation needed for a no-future public? and what would a sustainable, feminist organisation look like?…”
The text was previously published in Who’s Art For? Art Workers Against Exploitation, edited by R-set/tools for cultural workers (Impasse) in collaboration with Rete al Femminile, postmedia books, 2019.
Edition 60/70
With 49 contributors of artworks and words, this magazine is a real snapshot of Neurodivergent and survivor women’s voices and visions today.
Contributions are organised into nine chapters: Esoteric Sensory Bodies, Persist, Tangled and Complex, The Specially Initiated Alone, Obscuring those Beneath, Into the Woods, Unearthered/ Returning to the Hills, Precarious Arbitarity / Radically Nuanced, and All that glistens.
Veganism, Sex and Politics explores the potential dangers and irresistible pleasures of living a vegan life.
The volume’s thirty pieces—which include poems, short essays, position papers, letters, and personal reflections—cover violence against women of color in its myriad forms, manifestations, and settings, while identifying the links between gender, militarism, reproductive and economic violence, prisons and policing, colonialism, and war.
Contributors. Dena Al-Adeeb, Patricia Allard, Lina Baroudi, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA), Critical Resistance, Sarah Deer, Eman Desouky, Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, Dana Erekat, Nirmala Erevelles, Sylvanna Falcón, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Emi Koyama, Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez, maina minahal, Nadine Naber, Stormy Ogden, Julia Chinyere Oparah, Beth Richie, Andrea J. Ritchie, Dorothy Roberts, Loretta J. Ross, s.r., Puneet Kaur Chawla Sahota, Renee Saucedo, Sista II Sista, Aishah Simmons, Andrea Smith, Neferti Tadiar, TransJustice, Haunani-Kay Trask, Traci C. West, Janelle White
Music by Les Reines Prochaines.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Music by Les Reines Prochaines.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Music by Les Reines Prochaines.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Single CD with video clips.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Music by Les Reines Prochaines.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Limited edition Vinyl 125/250
Music and lyrics by Les Reines Prochaines: Michèle Fuchs, Fränzi Madörin, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick. Guests: Chris Regn,Andrea Saemann.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
A criminological philosophical cinematographical musical comedy by Nathalie Percillier with the female music band Les Reines Prochaines. The film is made up of cinematic excerpts, stage performances and interviews with the protagonists. A lesbian trash movie, Pulp Fiction meets Dada.
73 minutes, DVD PAL 16:9, DE/EN.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Catalogue to the festival from 26.06.01-01.07.12 in llsede, Hildesheim, Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
A monograph of the work of artist Doris Stauffer with texts by Doris Stauffer, Michael Hiltbrunner, Kay Turner, Andrea Thal, and Mara Züst.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
The Swiss art-rock band Les Reines Prochaines emerged from the youth and feminist movement of the 1980s. The movie traces the distinctive history of the Reines Prochaines and captures the artists in rehearsal and during their day to day life on tour.
Kindly donated for the Swiss live Art Study Room Guide.
Languages Swiss German, German.
77 minutes, HD
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.
Examines fandom as a set of practices for approaching and writing about art.
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).
A typeface narrative revolving around an I, a pair of ravenous eyes, a mouth, and a peptic ulcer called O.
On Harbourfront Centre 2014 World Stage Festival, Toronto.
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!