A tribute to Katherine Araniello, read during the event at LADA, 16th April 2019.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
In misc folder 7.
Exhibition catalogue. Attenborough Arts Centre, 10th May – 14th July 2019.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
A 50-year retrospective of the sculpture of the pioneer feminist performance artist who explores and dissolves the boundaries between art and life.
Published in association with the Baltimore Museum of Art. Exhibition catalogue. Exhibition dates / The Baltimore Museum of Art: October 7, 2018-January 6, 2019 Wexner Center for the Arts: February 2-April 28, 2019
Analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in late-medieval France and the twenty-first century, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Short video artist profile. Includes clips from different video and performance pieces.
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).
Argues that the awkwardness of our age is a key to understanding human experience.
Book review.
Citing Howells’ permissive mantra as its title, the book includes new writing from leading scholars and artists, as well as writing by Howells himself, an extensive interview, scores, and visual materials, which together offer new insight into the artist’s ground-breaking process.
Published as part of the eponymous exhibition at the Barbican 14 July – 4 September. Surveys the Icelandic artist's practice from his student work to today.
This item can be found in the locked glass cabinet.
Examines laughter among actors, among audience, and the interaction between the two. Exploring the many uses and effects of laughter in theatre, Weitz considers laughter as a tool of political resonance, as social commentary, and as one of the oldest rhetorical devices.
Documentation from a day long workshop led by Katherine Araniello – an opportunity for artists to explore and mine areas in which they have no abilities, experience or knowledge, to enhance and inspire their artistic practice. Part of LADA's DIY 12.
The workshop took place at the Colchester Arts Centre on 15 September 2015.
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Video recording of Liz Aggiss’s stand-up dance/Live Art performance “A Bit of Slap and Tickle” followed by a conversation and screening with LADA of seminal works by older women artists, including Bobby Baker and Anne Bean.
An exerpt from an integrated dance/film work, written, costumed, performed by and directed by Professor Aggiss, which fuses the screen mediated body and fictional and factual archive film as textually embedded into an original 60-minute live solo performance. This work continues to investigate the shifting nature of public presentation, structure and delivery systems within contemporary dance.
Pity is a performance piece made into a film. Performance at LUPA FETE June 2013. In the 1970s the original collection boxes were a common sight outside Scope charity shops (formerly known as The Spastics Society).
Two parts documentation of performance offering an alternative view on contemporary feminism. Presented in the context of “Fem Fresh” (Sunday 8 June 2014), a collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London and the Live Art Development Agency, featuring presentations and dialogues on, about, and around feminism and age in Live Art.
This is an excerpt from Access All Areas publication: P1864. Footage by Manuel Vason (see also British Library recording, D1621).
Exhibition guide of a gigantic interpretation of the family buzz wire game which visitors to the gallery are invited to play with.
Artists pranksters challenge the sovereign authority of words, images and behavioral convention.
In this collection of humorous illustrations and text, Finley shows us how to make the most of our dysfunctional qualities.
Excerpt of video documents a live performance held in the summer of 1976. Super 8 film & video, colour, sound.
10 minute edit of perfomance
There was once a sleeping woman. She was betrothed at birth, unknowingly. She hid in the forest until she was a true woman. At first glance she fell in love with a noble man. Her heart was taken. A witch tried to kill her and her love. A spell was put on her family and her castle. They all slept for over a hundred years. At last, the noble prince understood and at true love’s kiss she awoke.
An unconventional participatory performance.
Performance documentation.
Performance documentation.
Performance documentation.
Full length video recordings and excerpts of the artist’s works.
Collection of video documentation of the artist’s early and recent works. Including artist’s biography. Video PAL
A reinterpretation of the classic fairy tale, inspired by versions as disparate as Disney’s and the macabre Grimm brothers’.
Recording of two nights of the show at the Theatre de la Bastille, Paris, in November 2006.PAL Video.
Documentation of Ann Liv Young’s performance Solo performed in Berlin.
Documentation of Ann Liv Young’s performance Michael.
‘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.
Dedomenici attempts to take a full length photo using a photo booth.
Introduces the collective’s work. See also booklet ‘Performance Video Intervention’ catalogued under P1537.
Artist documentation.
Find article in misc. folder 2
A Spanglish music drive-by that rifles on media as religion. 10 tracks.
Mary Paterson reflects on the Chelsea Sacred Festival, Lois Weaver’s What Tammy Needs to Know About Getting Old (having fun) and Having Sex, and socially engaged practice, persona, memory, autobiographical
Surveys the rich and diverse uses of humor by avant-garde and contemporary artists.