Bodies move freely through an ambiguous urban “utopia”…or do they? Shot on 16mm film and digital video.
7 mins
Documentation of the evening celebrating the life and Live Art of the brilliant and inspirational artist Katherine Araniello who died on Monday 25 February 2019.
Feminist science fiction that anticipates a post-patriarchal future.
Draws on Wojnarowicz’s work to explore the role of abandoned landscape in this explosion of queer culture in NYC.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Eight issues of the interview zine about performance.
Exhibition catalogue. Hayward Gallery, 12 June – 8 September 2019
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Pines towards a future vision that surpasses generally accepted structural limitations of the human condition. Part of LADA Screens.
Taking place on 12 July 2007, SWIM was an open invitation, all access swim across London from Tooting Bec Lido to Hampstead Heath Ponds.
2014, 31’ 19”
This video was part of LADA Screens, and was available online between 17 August and 31 August 2015
A tribute to Katherine Araniello, read during the event at LADA, 16th April 2019.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
In misc folder 7.
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).
On Christoph Schlingensief, solo exhibition at MoMA S1, March-August 2014.
On Harbourfront Centre 2014 World Stage Festival, Toronto.
Publication on the artistic research platform aiming to explore family relationships within the context of migration and to contribute to the development of telepresence (technologically mediated presence) as an artistic idiom.
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 collection of historical essays, critical papers, case studies, interviews, and comments from scholars and practitioners that shed new light on the field of collaborative art.
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).
In these essays on the cinema, the author documents the obsessions leading to “Paris, Texas” and beyond.
Includes original footage of The American Moon (1960) and Flower (1963), a recent performance of Prune Flat (1965), and Ghost, Whitman’s recent theater work, as well as short documentaries about the works.
Offers a richly detailed portrait of the internationally renowned composer, performer, director, and filmmaker.
Anthology of scores, scripts, instructions, diagrams and documentation of art works that are meant to be heard.
A detailed look at the extensive 14-18 NOW programme, which was set up to bring a creative response to the centenary of the First World War.
Engages the virtually invisible subject of older women in western culture.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Revisits and resuscitates the forgotten heritage of a politicised theatre group – ‘Al Assifa’.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Brings together established and emerging practitioners who work with light, as material or subject.
Documents an international artistic research project initiated by Norwegian Theatre Academy/Østfold University College.
Explores how video art addresses the interplay between external reality and internal states of mind. Exhibition catalogue; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, January – August 2002.
Publication that emerged from, and was inspired by, an exhibition held across Southampton’s John Hansard Gallery and SeaCity Museum in 2014.
Reveals a tradition of queer environmentalism in contemporary literature and film from the Americas.
Brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer, covering the period 2004 – 2016.
Draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives.
The essays in this book – some newly written, others gathered from scattered sources – look at the ways in which contemporary science fiction films draw on, rework, and transform established themes and conventions of the genre.
Featuring rarely seen multimedia works, this book shows how Lynch applies his powerful imagination and visual language across genres. Exhibition publication: November 30, 2018–April 28, 2019, Bonnefantenmuseum.
Cataloguing Pfahler's recent projects for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, the volume also features her most notorious body-art performances and pieces. Numerous full-bleed photographs capture the making of the Biennial artworks, the preparation for her live show, the performance itself and the aftermath.
Examines the significance of the transgender body and presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms – especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Published in association with the Baltimore Museum of Art. Exhibition catalogue. Exhibition dates / The Baltimore Museum of Art: October 7, 2018-January 6, 2019 Wexner Center for the Arts: February 2-April 28, 2019
A collection of writings which describe in words the mercurial and ephemeral light as it changes across a day, across seasons, and across a year.
Project publication. Explores possibilities of queer hospice concepts, and what they could mean for their wider surroundings. Reflections on the future correspond sharply with the spaces of their respective residency, the Diakonie, which aids people in very direct questions concerning their present situation.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A selection of articles from the seventies, eighties, nineties, and the year 2000. The result is a fascinating chronicle and invaluable record of a turbulent period that gives an overview and survey of British art and its reception over the past thirty years which is wholly unprecedented in its scope.
Draws together revised writings alongside new journeyings from the A Year In The Country project, which has undertaken a set of year-long journeys through spectral fields; cyclical explorations of an otherly pastoralism, the outer reaches of folk culture and the spectres of hauntology. It is a wandering amongst subculture that draws from the undergrowth of the land.
This collection of writings by the author of Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures.
Examines an array of issues, including sex as a subversive activity, the “liberated orgasm,” sex advice literature, gender uncertainties, queer politics, anti-pornography campaigns and the rise of the moral right.
Programme for the Afrikaans language festival that forges creative connections with English and Sotho cultures; 18-22 July 2017.
Argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. Boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order.
The first of its kind in English, this book is more than a city guide to Hong Kong through the medium of film; it is a unique exploration of the relationship between location and place and genre innovations in Hong Kong cinema.
On Meredith Monk.
Illustrated catalogue accompanying the exhibition; Cornerhouse (3 March – 22 April 2001), Arnolfini (18 March – 13 May 2001), Mead Gallery (6 October – 1 December 2001).
This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it–to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries.