Combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of dance, theatre, music, live and performance art, and activism to form a sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the development, theory and definitive characteristics of a rapidly developing and popular area of practice.
An anthology of Edward’s creative practice-led projects. Through the innovative practice of ‘mesearch’, in which the author is both theoriser and theorised, this study delivers a personal, creative narration, combining reflections and emotions in relation to self and performance.
Publication on the week-long, 24/7 durational performance art event which took place in a three-bedroom house, showcasing 10 international artists living and working together and live-streamed on Youtube.
Draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged.
Exhibition catalogue for the eponymous performance exhibition. The Barbican, 20 July to 13 August 2017.
Introducing the idea of performance as a shared transformative experience, this engaging book will help you make sense of the performer/audience interaction in a landscape where boundaries are collapsing.
Collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre.
Large format programme for Hotel Obscura (Vienna performances). In German.
Includes The Wollstonecraft Live Experience! programmes and materials, two programmes for the Stoke Newington Literary Festival, and a list of publications.
What is the quality of participation in contemporary art and performance? Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores this question through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre.
This book presents a theory of audience participation in the theatre, based on the importance of the moment of invitation and how an event changes character when such an invitation is made.
The artist’s account of being denied entry at the country of Bahrain’s border. Miscellaneous folder #4.
In this essay, Tania El Khoury considers performance through the lens of her own practice as a live artist and as a member of Dictaphone Group, a live events project El Khoury started with Abir Saksouk. What emerges is a perspective of a contemporary artist working within the frame of performance, and how one within this frame might define their own practice through experience. In Miscellaneous Articles Folder #4.
This catalogue documents the multimedia performance project “Situation Rooms” – a multiple simultaneous cinema, augmented reality, and three-dimensional theatre experience.
Video documentation of an interactive performance designed for a single audience member set in a busy café environment.
Article on how intimate performance develop the relationship between audience and performer/performance.
Video documentation of interactive performance for two audience members set between a street and a second story window.
Video documentation of an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of 10 ordinary people who have been buried in Syrian gardens.
Video commisioned for “Documenting Intimacy”, a research initiative piloted by Brian Lobel and Marisa Zanotti to explore documenting one-to-one performance from the perspective of artists.
Small catalogues documeting three exhibitionary cycles of works in mixed media by students from Valand Academy’s Fine Art and Photography programmes.
Performance artists Leslie Hill and Helen Paris of Curious document their creative processes, performances and audience's responses in a series of illuminating case studies.
Review concerned with the politicisation of public spaces in the Arab territories where uprisings turn cities into the scenography of intervention.
Artist’s introduction to new media practice and its implicit body of performance
Part of the Anna Birch collection ‘Fragments to Monuments’, 1 x book, 3 x DVDs
Part of the Anna Birch collection ‘Fragments to Monuments’, 1 x book, 3 x DVDs
Part of the Anna Birch collection ‘Fragments to Monuments’, 1 x book, 3 x DVDs. Includes DVD
Architectes of Air build Luminaria – monumental installations designed to generate a sense of wonder at the phenomenon of light. Drawing on the influences of traditional architecture, natural and geometric forms, company founder, Alan Parkinson, designs huge pneumatic environments that tour the world.
Study Boxes contain hand picked selections of DVDs, books and other materials from the LADA Study Room around specific themes. Installed in Festival hubs and other locations, and curated in dialogue with partners, each Study Box can hold between four to ten items and can be used by audiences for a quick browse or a day-long study. After the events the Boxes are returned to the Study Room and listed in this Guide so that users can explore these themes and materials during their visit to the LADA Study Room.
Practice Based Research into Cultural Democracy and the Commissioning of Art to Effect Social Change.
Six video screens with see six streams of consciousness, placed in an idealized paradise landscape.
For 30 hours, a young man and an older woman will live in this specially designed terrarium for humans
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.
Descriptions of Masque of the Red Death.