Analyses the artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness, visual art and participatory practices.
The fifth of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community.
The fifth of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community.
The fourth of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community. Looks at the artists who consider the aesthetics and play of communication, distribution of politicized actions, and working in multiple channels and platforms to be an integral part of their performance practice.
The fourth of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community. Looks at the artists who consider the aesthetics and play of communication, distribution of politicized actions, and working in multiple channels and platforms to be an integral part of their performance practice.
The third of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community.
The third of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community.
The second of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community. Looks at the people and agencies that make space for performance artists and dancers to meet, experiment, and dance together in LA.
The second of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community. Looks at the people and agencies that make space for performance artists and dancers to meet, experiment, and dance together in LA.
The first of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community.
The first of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community.
A film documenting the unsanctioned live performance in Tate Britain: in the run up to the international climate talks in Paris as the artists invited Tate to reconsider their sponsorship deal with BP, and to begin to erase this scar from their skin.
Part of LADA Screens 9. The film was availble online between 30 April and 13 May 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel.
Examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism.
Charts a year at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton and the experience of communities forming in and around changing gallery spaces.
25 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery – for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics.
The revival of documentary in art, considered in historical, theoretical, and contemporary contexts.
Based on the results of an anonymous survey sent to more than 8,000 galleries in the US, UK, and Germany, this is an insightful examination of the business of selling art.
Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.
Includes:
-Corridors, Stairways & Corners
-A Lexicon ofLabour Movements
-The Italic I (Tacturiency)
Generously donated to LADA's Study Room by Clare Thornton.
In the glass cabinet.
Sets out to protect the present and the future of life in Britain from their most dangerous enemy: a creeping takeover by the past. While the real economy crumbles, a new force is taking over: the Heritage Industry, a movement dedicated to turning the British Isles into one vast open-air museum.
A study of installation art, from its marginalized beginnings in the late 1950s to its central position in today’s art world.
A collection of polemical writings, assaults, comments and theoretical discussions and analysis that appeared in reaction to the eponymous video, made in Belgrade, in 2007.
In Serbian and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Commissioned by Newlyn Art Gallery to mark their extension and the opening of The Exchange Gallery in Penzance, in 2007. The book is the outcome of an extensive process of cataloging and extracting repeated words and phrases from the gallery visitors book from a three year period.
The project received overwhelming worldwide attention and spawned provocative online debates; ultimately, Bilal was named Chicago Tribune's Artist of the Year. Structured in two parallel narratives, the story of Bilal's life journey and his Domestic Tension experience, Shoot an Iraqi is for anyone who seeks insight into the current conflict in Iraq and for those fascinated by interactive art technologies and the ever-expanding world of online gaming.
Investigates an array of staged situations, from choreographed exhibitions, immaterial museums, theatres of negotiation, and discursive marathons, to street carnivals and subversive public-art projects, and asks how ‘theatre-like’ strategies and techniques can in fact enable ‘reality making’ situations in art, and how, as a consequence, curating itself becomes staged, dramatised, choreographed, and composed.
Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.
In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Sholette engages in critical dialogue with artists’ collectives, counter-institutions, and activist groups to offer an insightful, firsthand account of the relationship between politics and art in neoliberal society.
Weaves together the various voices for the art collective to offer readers both an analysis and an experience of the group's performance: the inner voice of the performance; the critical voice of the witness; and the frustrating redactions reflecting Tate and BP's hidden contracts.
Seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art’s most persistent debates, from definitions of political art, to the troubled status of “outsider” and street art, to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself in a dysfunctional world.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)
An artist book reinterpreting a range of approaches to thinking and making that Emanuele and Burgoyne enacted through collaboration and collective process. The book evolved from a residency and exhibition at the Centre for Recent Drawing in 2015.
Video documentation of contributions to the Performing Idea Symposium, investigating the shifting relations between performance practice and discourse, event and writing; Toynbee Studios, 5-9/10/2010.
Includes nine files, containing videos of contributions on In Silence, Performative Writing, Reciprocal Aesthetics and Living Archives.
Exhibition catalogue: The Rochester Contemporary, 30/4-23/5 2004. Includes reproductions of artwork, critical essays and fiction.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Published to mark the acquisition of UNWORD for Leeds Museums & Galleries Collection and its display in “Important Mischief: British Sculpture from the 1960s and ’70s” in Leeds City Art Gallery, March – November 2006. Found in miscellaneous article folder #5B
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
From Tate Papers no.12
Found in miscellaneous article folder #5B
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
This paper focuses on the Midland Group Gallery in order to make a case for the consideration of the geographies of art galleries, highlight the importance of galleries in the context of cultural geographies of the sixties, and discuss the role of provinciality in the operation of art worlds.
In misc folder 5A.
Includes catalogues summarising the gallery's work (Meno parkas 2015, Meno parkas 2014, Meno parkas 1997-2012) and the catalogue of contemporary art festival (Kaunas in Art: Artists, Institutions, Projects, 2011)
Explores the inspiration of 30 UK modern artists and how their works illuminate the homes and lives of their owners.
Where can Art go from here and who will be the next modern master? To help answer this question we are taken on an enlightening and entertaining journey through the story of modern cubism to now.
Exhibition catalogue. Original exhibition: Graz, Künstlerhaus, October – November 1976. Further exhibitions: Innsbruck, Vienna, Bochum. In English and German.
A performance sculpture that segregates the artist in the “white cube” environment that has come to epitomise the contemporary art world.
Video commissioned by LADA for 'talking heads' series part of Access to all areas: Live art & disability in New York.
Edited video from Performance Sculpture, 2014. 3:26
Video by Peter Richards
Current British art selected by Helen Chadwick, Paul Chowdhury, James Faure Walker, John Hilliard and Nicholas Pope. Exhibition catalogue. Includes art, statements and interviews by Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti of Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions, Bruce McLean, Tony Sinden, Jim Whiting, Gilbert & George, Bobby Baker and Garth Evans
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
72-82 tells the story of the first ten years of Acme Studios and their ground breaking work providing artists' housing and studios in London. It also features some of the pioneering exhibitions at the Acme Gallery that was based in Covent Garden from 1976-81. The film comprises visual archive materials brought to life by the voices of the artists involved. Interviewees include: Cosey Fanni Tutti, Jock McFadyen and David Critchley.
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Provides a historical record of the performance art movement during the 1980s and ‘90s, and captures the essence of creative expression that is free of – and often challenging – the strictures of the established art industry.
Book published to accompany the 2004 exhibition of the same name
Artists included: Giovanni Anselmo, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Marinus Boezem, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Jan Dibbets, Gino de Dominicis, Ger van Elk, Barry Flanagan, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert and George, Michael Heizer, Wolf Knoebel, Gary Kuehn, Richard Long, Walter de Maria, Mario Merz, Dennis Oppenheim, Klaus Rinke, Ulrich Ruckriem, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Franz Erhard, Walther, Lawrence Weiner, Gilberto Zorio
Catalogue from the 'Outbound: Passages from the 90s' exhibition at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, March 4 – May 7 2000, exploring contemporary art at the turn of the millennium
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