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In 2016, two artists embarked a cargo ship and retraced a route of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle – Europe, Africa, the Caribbean – all the while contemplating the notion of home. Both real and imagined, it was a journey to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, propelled by questions and grief; a journey backwards in order to go forwards, a diaspora. This show is what they brought back.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Pink Triangles: Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation
Each essay shares two fundamental premises. First, that the oppression of gays and lesbians is not an isolated case, and therefore their struggle is necessarily part of a larger movement for social liberation. And, second, that the experience of gays and lesbians uphold the basic tenets of a foundational Marxism, and that they are uniquely placed to contribute to a revitalisation of Marxist theory.
American Homo: Community and Perversity
A sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society.
Man Enough to be a Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne County
Wild, hilarious and shameless account of Jayne’s life from her cissy-boy childhood in Georgia to her 90s renaissance, as a new wave of superstars claim her as their inspiration.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
The Last Known Pose: Essays and Reflections on the Works of Qasim Riza Shaheen
A collection of written and visual responses to the works of British artist, Qasim Riza Shaheen. Essays, reflections and conversations, by eminent scholars, curators, artists and collaborators, consider the multiple aspects and the experience of his works.
In English and Urdu.
To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice
A research into the genealogy of political practice among different feminist movements from the 1970s to the present in Europe and Australia, resulting in a six-element film installation and accompanying exhibition catalog/reader.
Across the Art/Life Divide: Performance, Subjectivity, and Social Practice in Contemporary Art
Explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres.
Encounters in Performance Philosophy
A collection of 14 essays by international scholars and practitioners from across the disciplines of Philosophy, Literature and Theatre and Performance Studies, addressing the nature of the relationship between philosophy and performance.
Histories of Performance Documentation: Museum, Artistic, and Scholarly Practices
Traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards, considering the unique challenges of documenting live events.
Gender Trouble
Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, ‘essential’ notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category ‘woman’ and continues in this vein with examinations of ‘the masculine’ and ‘the feminine’.
