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).
Combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of dance, theatre, music, live and performance art, and activism to form a sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners.
Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? This book argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the ‘homophobic migrant’ who is rendered by society as hateful, homophobic and disposable.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
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.
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.
A satire about a bug society and its most powerful family. 72 mins.
Documents the crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
30 minute documentary about urban change and to role of arts and culture in Dublin, in the midst of regeneration.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Drawing on more than ten years of ethnographic research in and around New York City, the book offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that address how race is negotiated in today’s world-including tales of book-vending numerologists, urban conspiracy theorists, corrupt police officers, mixed-race neo-Nazis, and gospel choirs forbidden to catch the Holy Ghost.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
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.
Includes history background information and chronology of artists.
Found in miscellaneous article folder #6
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
The publication explores art created in public spaces in Brazil, since 2000. In Portuguese and English. Published under the Creative Commons licence.
An overview of Poro: Brazilian company engaged in poetic, ironic and political actions. In Portuguese and English.
This publicationis a polemic, provocative account of disappearance, forgetfulness and untimely death.
Article explore two organizations in London area of Peckham: Royal Court Theatre Local and Peckham Space.
Essays written 2010-2012 with an introduction by Stephen Squibb
As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, the authors take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making.
Contaminate the city was a workshop formulated to explore site-specific and participatory performance practice.
A Spanglish music drive-by that rifles on media as religion. 10 tracks.
Historic and poetic portrait of downtown area done in the conflict field of the gentrification process.