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Corset Cut
Artist/Author: Clare Thornton | Reference: D2280 | Type: DVD

A performance for video, shot in one take; features the artist being cut out of a corset by her mother.

4mins/silent/single play or loop/4:3

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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Bethlehem Bandolero
Artist/Author: Larissa Sansour | Reference: D2272 | Type: DVD

A kitsch video featuring the artist as a Mexican gunslinger arriving in Bethlehem for a duel with the Israeli Wall. Wearing a big sombrero and a scarf, the artist walks the streets of Bethlehem and greets the locals before taking off for her final showdown. 

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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The Radical in Performance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard
Artist/Author: Baz Kershaw | Reference: P2761 | ISBN: 978-0415186681 | Type: Publication

Investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

 

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XEN: Migration Labor and Identity
Editor: Yongsoon Min | Reference: P3313 | Type: Publication

Catalogue  published in conjunction with the exhibition by Yongsoon Min ;13 August to 12 September 2004 at the SSamzie Space Galleries.  In English and Korean.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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The Grotowski Sourcebook
Editor: Richard Schechner and Lisa Wolford | Reference: P3303 | ISBN: 978-0415131117 | Type: Publication

The first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski’s long and multi-faceted career.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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Collaborative Theatre: The Theatre du Soleil Sourcebook
Editor: David Williams | Reference: P3312 | ISBN: 978-0415086066 | Type: Publication

The first in-depth sourcebook in English on the compant, providing first-hand accounts of the development of its collectivist practices and ideals.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Issue 4
Editor: Mark Herbst, Robby Herbst, Cara Baldwin, Ryan Griffith, Christina Ulke | Reference: P3282 | Type: Publication

Volume 1, Issue 4.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

 

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The Art of Truth-telling About Authoritarian Rule
Editor: Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia E. Milton, Leigh A. Payne | Reference: P3279 | ISBN: 978-0299209049 | Type: Publication

The illustrated volume examines the creation of stories, accounts, images, songs, street theatre, paintings, and ideas that pay witness to authoritarian pasts.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983
Artist/Author: Tim Lawrence | Reference: P3252 | ISBN: 978-0822362029 | Type: Publication

Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification.

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Documenting Performance
Editor: Toni Sant | Reference: P3235 | ISBN: 978-1472588173

The first book to provide a collection of key writings about the process of documenting performance, focused not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance.

Adam Nash Adam Trainer Alberto Pendón Alissa Clarke Allan Taylor Alvin Eng Hui Lim Amy Skinner archive audience audience experience Australia Ben Spatz body Cat Hope Claire Read collection CumberHamlet Daisy Abbott dance Daniela Salazar data digital digital archive digital performance embodiment ephemeral epistemology Gabriella Giannachi Gema Bueno Helen Newall history intellectual property internet interpretation Jeanine Rizzo Joanna Bucknall Kirsty Sedgman Laura Griffiths Laurene Vaughan live event memory Miguel Escobar music National Theatre New Music Archive Panayiota Demitriou paradocumentation participation performer training photography Sarah Whatley social media technology translation UK Vanessa Bartlett Wayang Theatre William Shakespeare

March
Editor: Marissa Keating | Reference: D2245 | Type: DVD

Documents the large scale, public art event March of Women spilling out onto the streets of Bridgeton on the eve of International Women’s Day 2015.

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The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants & inventors whose obsessions changed the world
Artist/Author: David Bramwell, Jo Keeling | Reference: P3208 | ISBN: 978-1473640313 | Type: Publication

Celebrating curiosity and adventure, the book explores the obsessions, achievements and failures of lesser-known but utterly remarkable individuals who exemplify the human spirit through their stories of invention, trickery, subversion and survival.

Alan Watts Alexander Scriabin Alfred Russel Wallace Alister Crowley Apsley Cherry-Garrard art Ayn Rand Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven biography Bob Flanagan Buckminster Fuller Clement Lindley Wragge Edith Sitwell Elaine Morgan Falco Tarassaco Flora Tristan Fox Sisters Francis Galton Frank Buckland Harry Bensley history Ivor Cutler Jack Churchill James Graham Joe Orton John Dee John Hunter Joseph Campbell Joshua Norton Ken Campbell L L Zamenhof Madalyn Midgley O'Hair Moondog Muriel Howorth Nellie Bly Paolo Soleri politics Quentin Crisp Reginald Bray Robert Anton Wilson science Screaming Lord Sutch Stanley Unwin Sun Ra Thomas Midgley Junior Timothy Leary Tuesday Lobsang Rampa Wilhelm Reich William Price

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