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Black Performance Theory

Editor: Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez | Reference: P4026 | ISBN: 978-0-8223-5616-5 | Type: Publication

Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
 

The acceptance of loss

Artist/Author: Gregg Whelan | Reference: A0853 | Type: Article

A critical paper: towards an understanding of ethno-graphy. 

In misc folder 7.

None of Us is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition

Artist/Author: Emma Frankland | Reference: P4014 | ISBN: 978-1786826459 | Type: Publication

Charts artist and performer Emma Frankland's gender transition against a shifting social and political landscape, while grappling with the systematic erasure of trans history.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

From Brass Bands to Buskers: Street Music in the UK

Artist/Author: Elizabeth Bennett, George McKay | Reference: P4013 | Type: Publication

Report about the Arts and Humanities Resarch Council funded prject.

Of Other Spaces - Where Does Gesture Become Event?

Editor: Sophia Yadong Hao | Reference: P4008 | ISBN: 9783956793783 | Type: Publication

Resonating with the ethos of open dialogue and the experimentation of women artists’ collectives in the 1970s and 1980s, the publication constructs a dynamic, open, and collaborative arena that foregrounds practices of resistance, collectivity, and self-organization. Exhibition catalogue: Cooper Gallery, 28 October 2016 – 16 December 2016.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Queer Magic: LGBT+ Spirituality and Culture from Around theWorld

Artist/Author: Tomás Prower | Reference: P4009 | ISBN: 978-0738753188 | Type: Publication

A unique resource for LGBT+ spiritual seekers who want to experience the sustaining energy and strength of the worldwide queer community.

The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics

Artist/Author: Louis Chude-Sokei | Reference: P4016 | ISBN: 978-0819575777 | Type: Publication

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.

Christoph Schlingensief: Art without Borders

Editor: Tara Forrest, Anna Teresa Scheer | Reference: P4015 | ISBN: 978-1841503196 | Type: Publication

Consisting of twelve chapters written by leading scholars in the field, and a long interview with Schlingensief himself, the book will provide the reader with the first comprehensive study of the intriguing body of work that Schlingensief has developed over the last thirty years.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others

Artist/Author: Sara Ahmed | Reference: P4012 | ISBN: 978-0822339144 | Type: Publication

A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry.

Goat Cut Piece

Artist/Author: Laura Lima | Digital Reference: EF5300 | Type: Digital File

The artist collaborates with a goat to re-enact performance artist Yoko Ono’s famous work from 1964, Cut Piece.

Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.