Explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories.
SPILL programme; 25 October – 4 November, 2018, Ipswich
Project zines; Fierce, intimate oral histories, collaborative stories, D.I.Y. research and interviews from people at the intersection of several kinds of marginalisation.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A publication documenting the first 40 years of Artsadmin.
How do artists respond to the question of collective survival in the face of crisis? Can writing articulate, subvert and test the ever-present question of the future in modes that are nonlinear, affective and even choreographic? What are our hopes, fears and desires?
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Accompanies the performance and exhibition Four Legs Good, Compass Festival, 17-25 November 2018.
A book about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in “significant otherness”.
Presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres. Revised and Enlarged Edition
Essays on the concept of total theatre, which emerged from the Bauhaus as a new aesthetic of stage design and presentation.
This volume, which originally appeared as a special issue of The Drama Review, looks at puppets, masks, and other performing objects from a broad range of perspectives.
Exhibition catalogue. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, June-July 1994; Institute of Modern Art, August 1994, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, November-December 1995, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, February-March 1995, ACCA, April May 1995.
A report on the five-year programme; the story of an undertaking that brought together art and heritage.
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.
The first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal Art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art.
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)
Follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism.
Returns to Satoshi Nakamoto’s canonical text on a peer-to-peer electronic cash system as a Rosetta Stone that reveals the far-reaching implications of decentralisation.
Examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Discusses how citizenship is performed today, through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Brings together established and emerging practitioners who work with light, as material or subject.
Explores performance art through live manifestations and reiterations in photographs, film and video.
We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear.
Provides a survey of the history of first wave feminism in British theatre, from the London premiere of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in 1889 through the militant suffrage movement.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
The first book of the women’s liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics.
Explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless.
The recent surge of interest in 1980s AIDS activists, shows how art can effect real change. Looking back also reveals how narrow current definitions of healthcare are and encourages us to agitate for a more diverse future.
Part of Library of Perfmorming Rights (P3041)
Documents an international artistic research project initiated by Norwegian Theatre Academy/Østfold University College.
Exhibition catalogue, 08 September – 03 November 2018, John Hansard Gallery.
Newspaper created and published through the four-day programme exploring the interconnections of art, activism, performance, politics, health and print.
Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, the book looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance, pedagogy, identity and culture.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A Troubles Archive Essay. Includes the programme for Performance Art + Northern Ireland, exhibition at the Golden Thread Gallery (13/8/2015 – 30/9/2015)
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
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.
Shows why cognitive injustice underlies all other dimensions; global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice.
The revival of documentary in art, considered in historical, theoretical, and contemporary contexts.
Marks the finissage of Abboud’s solo exhibition The Horse, the Bird, the Tree and the Stone at Bildmuseet (Sweden, 21 May – 17 September 2017) and the inauguration of her solo show The pomegranate and the sleeping ghoul at Darat al Funun-The Khalid Shoman Foundation (Jordan, 10 October 2017 – 11 January 2018).
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)
A broad-ranging survey that explores and celebrates humankind’s ongoing fascination with animals. This carefully curated selection of images, chosen by an international panel of experts, delves into our shared past to tell the story of animal life.
It examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art’s most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
One of the world s most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists.
Looks at the rich history of performance art in Australia through a multitude of perspectives. With this collection's thirty-nine contributions by scholars, curators, and artists covering more than three decades of practice, readers will enjoy both a comprehensive overview of the Australian performance art landscape and a rich trove of personal reflections from some of its pioneers and main proponents.
A return to the theme of the issue around ‘the migrations of people’ and ‘writing around differing geographies and histories of travel’.
In this collection of diverse worksessays, short stories, poems, translationswhich spans a lifetimes engagement with art.
Examines the construct of memory, the passage of time, and the “end of history.”
Includes documentation of:
– Someting Tender
– 3 : 3: 3
– For Always
The first book to explore the various ways the human body has been both an inspiration and a medium for artists over hundreds of thousands of years.
A practical guide for the queer ritualist.