The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.

From Surrealist selfies to feminist self-portraiture, the ISelf Collection explores identity and the human condition through the central themes of birth, death, sexuality, love, pain and joy. Taking the display of the collection at Whitechapel Gallery as its springboard, this book looks generally at the question of the self in modern and contemporary art, and the ways in which artists are thinking about being and identity as an individual, in relation to others, to society and the wider world.

One of the first comprehensive treatments of land use in contemporary art, the collection surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena.

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

This anthology examines the expanded field of the moving image in recent art, tracing the genealogies of contemporary moving image work in performance, body art, experimental film, installation and site-specific art from the 1960s onwards. 

Catalogue comprising of the work of more than 65 artists, featuring a variety of media, from the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Themed collections of performance documentation and works for camera projects addressing issues of borders/border crossings

Articles, documentation, blogs, and archive materials from the Pinto mi Raya Archivo Activo between 1991-2001.

Publication to coincide with exhibition, 2013. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

The first extensive survey of walking in contemporary art. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

Accompanying text for the BilderBedarf Exhibition 2012-13, Cologne, Germany; exploring the effects of works of art in relation to civil society

This Study Room Guide is concerned with journeys as an emerging trend in Live Art. A significant number of artists, practitioners and companies are currently incorporating travel into their work and using journeys in a variety of different ways.

Living as Form grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a survey of more than 100 projects that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics.

Maps the history of performance and live art up until 2011.

A look at Artangel’s commissions and support of artists and organisations in the UK over the last 15 years, and a discussion of future international projects in 2007.

Performance Matters, Trashing Performance Talks

…and Sometimes Doing Something Political Can Become Poetic.

An extension of Alÿs’s previous projects called “Paseos” (Spanish for “walks”), where the artist carries out certain acts while walking through a predetermined location

Book includes a DVD. This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).

This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).

From the series Documents of Contemporary Art Contemporary art engaged with the everyday. Including

Investigations of failure as a key concern—as theme, strategy, and world view—of recent art.

This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).

Survey of projects commissioned by Artangel from 1985 to 2002. This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)

Catalogue for exhibition curated by Angela Kingston, 2013, Liverpool