Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture.
Explores the early history of animal rights through the images and the people who harnessed their power.
Public installations designed to construct interactions between humans and arthropods such as moths, beetles, caddisflies, ants and lacewings.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
Documentation of performance installations where dachshunds (re)perform a United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Watch apes and elephants master human art. This film was created alongside the 2012 exhibition Art by Animals at the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
The artist shares a living space with Deliah the pig for 72 hours. Film Credit: Rob La Frenais
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
A parade of leaf-cutter ants carry artificial leaves painted as flags of different nations and peace signs.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
A donkey choreographs a group of dancers.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
The artist lies motionless for five hours in a glass container that he shares with a colony of ants.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
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.
A revival of medieval animal trials featuring Snoopy the Jack Russell terrier in court for sheep worrying.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
Interview with theauthor of performance installations where dachshunds (re)perform a United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Documentation of performance installations where dachshunds (re)perform a United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
The artist co-habits with animals in cages in zoos around the world.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
A short animation about the regionally extinct lion.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
A farmer calls his cattle by playing his trombone to them.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
Meet ten fascinating flyers through a series of superlatives – and guess who's who while learning about airborne animals. From the fastest (white-throated needletail) to the most acrobatic (flying fox bat), and from the best glider (colugo) to the best backward flyer (hummingbird), each master of flight is cleverly depicted in a blueprint-inspired diagram, accompanied by playful, informative text.
Draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives.
In exploring the human-animal relationship from the early modern period to the nineteenth century, this publication questions what it means for an animal to “perform,” examines how conceptions of this relationship have evolved over time, and explores whether and how human understanding of performance is changed by an animal’s presence.
Maps connections across performances that question the borders of the human whose neurodiverse experiences have been shaped by the diagnostic label of autism, and animal-human performance relationships that dispute and blur anthropocentric edges.
This original and entertaining tour of life on Earth explores how many of the things once considered to be exclusively human are not: we are not the only species that communicates, makes tools, utilises fire, or has sex for reasons other than to make new versions of ourselves. Evolution has, however, allowed us to develop our culture to a level of complexity that outstrips any other observed in nature.
Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.
Develops and encourages you to inhabit — through narratives or spatialized experiences — Deep Maps of places you want to understand in a robust, inclusive, and expansive ways, which is not possible with traditional mapping.
Catalogue to accompany a film series held at the Art Gallery of Ontario (1989).
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.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project.
Draws on Kira O’Reilly’s on-going bio-art performance experimentations and Matthew Herbert’s experimental music performance One Pig to rethink the theoretical and performative engagement with animals and the vitality of life in its broadest sense.
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:
– MOMMA film 7’42”
– Family of the Future, 22’22”
– I Can’t Keep Silence Any More, 2’42”
– Missionary, London 2012, 5’28; Moscow, 1995, 5’38 and 2’20”
– Pavlov’s Dog, 3’49”
– Two Kuliks, 5’58
Documentation of a dance project exploring the deep relationship between human and animal and forms of becoming.
Catalogue from the Rebecca Horn retrospective that opened at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 1993. Contributions include interviews and essays by Rebecca Horn, Germano Celant, Nancy Spector, Giuliana Bruno, Katherina Schmidt, Stuart Morgan, Nicholas Serota, Thomas Krens.
Stages an encounter between performance and philosophy to investigate notions of the event, ephemerality and democracy that have perpetually marked the engagement of thought and the theatrical.
The experimental art scene in post-Tiananmen China has featured an array of animal bodies, both living and dead, as well as interspecies encounters ranging from the playful to the sadistic, from the gently collaborative to the violently conflictual, which interrogate and destabilize contemporary constructions of the nature-culture binary.
15 April – 14 May 2011, Performance Space, Sydney.
Paul Granjon, The Heart and the Chip, Reflections and experiments of the co-evolution of human and machine
Part of the ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’, documentation of key works, and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.
‘Talking Heads’ are short presentations by artists to camera about their practice and approaches to making. The ‘Talking Heads’ films are part of the Agency’s ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, which consists of an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’ films, documentation of artists’ works and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.
For 30 hours, a young man and an older woman will live in this specially designed terrarium for humans
Six video screens with see six streams of consciousness, placed in an idealized paradise landscape.
A combination of a punk-rock concert and a catwalk event with the audience seated on both sides of the stage.
2009. 7-channel projection (4:03 min.) SD digital-video mixed with super 8.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529)
Two exhibition catalogues. In English and Spanish. For video documentation see REF. D1128
Provides a comprehensive overview of work produced since 1996, as well as rare archive material. This is accompanied by a publication, P1009
Nine artists’ projects explore fascinating scientific subject areas.
Published on the occasion of Stelarc’s Live Art Research Colloquium at The Nottingham Trent University.