Investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
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).
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).
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).
Volume 1, Issue 4.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
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).
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.
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.
The first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in shifting the development of American art away from the cool conceptual foundations of postmodernism and toward a new, more insistently political and autobiographical voice.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum (October 2015 – January 2016)
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.
Reflects, through a celebratory and playful lens, on the seminal moments of contemporary international performance that have visited the city from the late 1980s until 2016, a year from when the Arches closed.
Expanding on the ideas of double wound (Caruth) and nostalgia (Aciman), this article discusses Davis' poetic autobiographic performances as examples of the terror and relief of repeating exilic pain.
A publication highlighting a selection of the many events, opportunities, publications and research projects that LADA produced over the course of 12 months in 2014/15.
The video juxtaposes the various form of mediation from one historical event – the 1980 student massacre – according to linear time line. The public memory of the incident is formed and moulded with mediated images and languages.
1hour 27min
Includes: Foreign Sky, Beast of Me, Still Hear the Wound
Catalogued with a spanned DVD.
Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body.
*currently unavailable*
Takes as a starting point the premise that art is best understood in dialogue with the social sphere, and examines how the exchange between art, knowledge and use has historically been set up and played out.
Programme for a multi-media composition, based on the book I Never Saw Another Butterfly. Featuring poems and drawings by Jewish children imprisoned in Terezin, composer Jocelyn Pook draws inspiration from the children’s creative spirit.
Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theatre, on popular culture, and on paratheatrical practices, the book investigates theatrical engagement with aging from the Greek chorus to Reminiscence Theatre.
Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)
First of the four special editions of the journal, focusing on Documenta 2017. Compiling research, critique and literature, the publicaparallels the work on the exhibition and helps frame its concerns.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
The artist investigates cultural transfer and displaced identity through installation, sculpture, video and performance, culturally stereotyping artefacts such as flagpoles, Moroccan tea glasses and India ink in her art. Exhibition catalogue.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Jones travels the border regions of the world, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects, and their dire consequences for the majority of the people in the world.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
How did performance artists of the ’60s and ’70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political establishment, become the foremost monument builders of the ’80s, ’90s and today? This book argues that the centrality of performance to monuments and indeed public art in general rests not on its ephemerality or anti-authoritarian rhetoric, but on its power to build interpersonal bonds both personal and social.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication.
Written by The People Show’s longest standing and original member, the publication chronicles a very other, non-mainstream way of making art, of living and breathing this art and all that it stands for, during the course of 50 years.
In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. By including performances regardless of their country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals the breathtaking variety of practices used in performance work today.
Includes:
– Artist bio & CV
– Hermana, 2010, 1'50''
– Himenoplastia, 2004, 7'21''
– Juegos de poder, 2009, 11'10''
– La Verdad, 2013, 1:10'
– Lucha, 2002, 3'38''
– Perra, 2005, 5'31''
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.
Images related to the Study Room Guide on Performance in the UK in the 1970 (P2947).
Contains separate folders for each artist + a word document with image credits.
Phillips dicusses the making of Performance Art in Ireland: A History.
The book presents over 100 covers of The Communist Manifesto, compiled from the Museum of Ordure’s collection. The launch included a sound performance by the Curator and Acting Director of the Museum of Ordure, R Y Sirb.
A PhD thesis offering a new account of the emergence of performance forms, including Happenings, participatory art, performance art and performances for the camera, in visual art and related contexts at the ICA.
An account of Western theatre buildings in the 21st century: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished.
Publication on the project which saw the artist working with the residents of Iwade from July 2015 to explore the village’s changing identity in the flux of the new build development. The project included workshops, residencies and live events hosted by artists, musicians and archeologists.
Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain
Action Art, similar to performance art but not requiring an audience, emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. Until now this movement has received little critical attention, as the Iron Curtain prevented its dissemination to an international audience.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Documentation from the LADA event on (post)modern colonialism, held on on 13 Feb 2016.
Incudes a communal text, details on the event, reflections by Leo Kay, Laura Burns, Christine Brault, Isil Sol Vil and Marina Barsy Jane, and photos.
Part of the Study Room Ambassador scheme.
Article compiled from the artistsineastlondon.org (on 14/5/2008).
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)
Documentation from the LADA event on (post)modern colonialism, held on on 13 Feb 2016.
Part of the Study Room Ambassador scheme.
A report on artistis-in-resdiency, art projects, educational events, creative village, inernational cooperation; includes end of year results.
Artist Ruth Ewan invited Strood residents to share their skills and knowledge of the town’s heritage, hidden stories, myths past and present, to be weaved into a subversive pantomime for the town. This performance programme includes the full script, invited writings and local archive material.
Performed on 22nd December 2015.
Theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance.
In this new English edition of the handbook over sixty curators, art historians, and artists take a critical look at the theme of the significance and potential of public art.
Amanda Coogan collaborates with 13 performers to explores the Church Street disaster of 1913 and its parallel with contemporary Irish society.
The performance took place in the Hugh Lane Gallery over 12 hours. It was captured in this video using timelapse photography, the entire 12 hours resulting in a new 8 minute film.
Film: Paddy Cahill
Sound Design/Composition: Mike Glennon
Tom Holert argues that with Celebration? Realife, Chaimowicz makes a strategic and important meditation on the changing role of the artist, who simultaneously becomes art director, choreographer and participant. The groundbreaking installation Celebration? Realife was originally created for ‘Three Life Situations’ at Gallery House London in 1972.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self- objectification, transforming themselves into art objects.
A book on the multi-disciplinary and experimental practice of artist David Medalla, who was born in the Philippines. Based in London since the 1960s, he has made an effort to remain independent of the art market and the institutional structure. Artist biography, bibliography and illustrated documentation of works included.
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
The first book of its kind to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of capitalist non-reproduction.
Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow's project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art's participatory strategies.