Staging Black Feminisms sets out to challenge perceptions of black women’s theatre work as inherently feminist. Drawing on black feminist theories of identity and theories of black and feminist performance form, it analyses key themes such as migration, motherhood, sexuality, mixed race identity and interracial relationships in a range of late-twentieth and early twenty-first century black British women’s plays and performances.

In Radical Gestures, the first comprehensive history of feminist performance art in North America within the social context of the feminist movement and avant-garde art from the 1970s to 2000, Jayne Werk shows that artists drew from feminist politics to create works that, following a long period of modernist aesthetic detachment, made a unique contribution to the re-politicization of art.

Publication and 2 DVDs, one multimedia, one audio/video.

Spanning over 15 years, Occupations is the most comprehensive survey of Jordan McKenzie's work to date. Beginning in the 1990s, through an engagement with body based and queer performance practices, his work has gone on to explore drawing as a live activity as well as questions of class and identity.

Point. 1: I was just listening to Radio 4 telling me about komodo dragons laying virgin birth eggs, and David Attenborough once taught me about a plant at the bottom of a sea that grows flowers, which become jellyfish, that then give birth to seeds that become plants.

Point. 2: I am a makeshift domestic goddess and my life is in a makeshift world, I’ve got all the right whisks and piping bags, but my apron is stained.

If You Want Bigger Yorkshires You Need a Bigger Tin is a show about Lucy’s ‘to trans, or not to trans’ search for her femininity.

herst. Theorie Zur Praxis follows the path of the festival (21 September – 14 October 2012) in Austria, by providing reflections, portraits and interviews by or on participants of the festival.

Critical Art Ensemble is a collective of tactical media practitioners of various specializations, including computer graphics and web design, film/video, photography, text art, book art, wetware, and performance.

This film chronicles the life and work of pioneering musician and performance artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, starting with Throbbing Gristle in the 1970s to the still very active cult favourite Psychic TV, and how h/er chance encounter with a dominatrix/performance artist in New York called Lady Jaye brought about a singular and enduring artistic collaboration and a brazen partnership that defied all the perceptions of love.

4x books: Migration, Communication & Home, Jewish Tradition, Change & Gender in a Global World; Menschen wie Du und Ich; Stets Gern Fur sie Beschaftigit…; Heimat Kunst. Artist’s postcards, 16 x performance documentation DVDs, 1 x music CD. Collection of books and performance documentation donated to the Study Room by the artist. In German and English.

Shelved in Oversize publications section.

Artist documentation.