This series of interviews, held by curator and writer Gilane Tawadros are focussed entirely on Stuart Brisley’s practice and directed by him. The artist’s narration of his practice demonstrates an unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative or fixing the meaning of his works.
Issue No 10 of Substanz featuring work from Encuentro Binacional México/Suiza.
Text in German, Spanish and English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Artists book on Katja Schenker with photographic documentation and texts from various authors.
Kindly donated as part of the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Text in German.
This publication presents a web of information: the artist’s own statements- essentially descriptions and photographs of her pieces, comments and an interview- together with contributions from different authors on various aspects of Muda Mathis’ work.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Text in German and English.
Text and photographic documentation of the work of Jörg Köppl and Peter Začek.
Kindly donated as part of the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Text in German.
This book focuses on the possibility of rethinking the static model of installation and exhibition and exploring the way in which ‘performative’ approaches, adopted by artists and curators alike, can reframe the exhibition and its work as an environment subject to formal, temporal or relational transformation.
Video documentation of the book launch, as part of LADA Screens. Includes 4 videos.
A trilogy of hybrid art films of collaborative performances in epic locations around the world. Included the three films (Performances at the End of the World, Performances at the Holy Centre, Performances at the Core of the Looking-Glass) and a text about the project.
Feminist science fiction that anticipates a post-patriarchal future.
Looks at two pieces which use the ‘scene’ of wreckage to pursue coherence.
Brochure for the Live Art programme at the Liverpool Biennial 2002 (18-21 September).
Eight issues of the interview zine about performance.
The fifth of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community.
The fifth of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community.
Exhibition catalogue. Hayward Gallery, 12 June – 8 September 2019
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Documentation from the exhibition at the Cambridge Darkroom, 1990.
Made and published on the occasion of Artsadmin's 40th birthday.
The 7th issue of the newspaper is the first one to focus on a region; it commits to reconsidering Americas colonial stories and their marks on its present global condition. In multiple languages.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
On Harbourfront Centre 2014 World Stage Festival, Toronto.
An occasional publication that aims to collate and investigate ideas around place, or more specifically: “indeterminate geographies”. In the third issue, the topic is ‘refuge’.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Exhibition Catalogue. Cambridge Darkroom, 1993.
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.
First catalogue of work by London based artist Stefan Gec.
Provides a survey of the work of Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, who specialize in creating art on a monumental scale.
Exhibition catalogue. 12/11 – 4/12 1987. In German.
Offers a richly detailed portrait of the internationally renowned composer, performer, director, and filmmaker.
Catalogue which accompanies films exploring the social, political and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary Islamic societies.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1992.
Exhibition catalogue. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, June-July 1994; Institute of Modern Art, August 1994, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, November-December 1995, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, February-March 1995, ACCA, April May 1995.
Revisits and resuscitates the forgotten heritage of a politicised theatre group – ‘Al Assifa’.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Interview with Ulay.
Exhibition catalogue; Summerhall, 2/8 – 24/9 2017.
Exhibition catalogue, 08 September – 03 November 2018, John Hansard Gallery.
Publication that emerged from, and was inspired by, an exhibition held across Southampton’s John Hansard Gallery and SeaCity Museum in 2014.
Featuring rarely seen multimedia works, this book shows how Lynch applies his powerful imagination and visual language across genres. Exhibition publication: November 30, 2018–April 28, 2019, Bonnefantenmuseum.
Cataloguing Pfahler's recent projects for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, the volume also features her most notorious body-art performances and pieces. Numerous full-bleed photographs capture the making of the Biennial artworks, the preparation for her live show, the performance itself and the aftermath.
Comprehensively examines the life and art of David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), who came to prominence in New York's East Village art world of the 1980s, actively embracing all media and forging an expansive range of work both fiercely political and highly personal.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Four books published as part of STRONG LANGUAGE, published by Tim Etchells:
M John Harrison: Real Dreams
Courttia Newland: That Small Death
Joolz Denby: Dandelion
Selina Thompson: 12 Race Card Answers
A collection of writings which describe in words the mercurial and ephemeral light as it changes across a day, across seasons, and across a year.
Using a series of exercises and increasingly in depth ‘trips’, the book sets out clear and concise steps to enable individuals and groups to access their imagination and unconscious reason, to work on behalf of others. Using a series of exercises such as ‘Becoming a Bat’, ‘Crawling’, ‘Draw a Sound’ and ‘Impersonating a Human’, Marcus Coates has developed his own practical techniques to solve problems that we might otherwise remain dumbfounded by.
In the glass cabinet.
Contributes to the ongoing critical discussions of performance and its disappearance, of the ephemeral and its reproduction, of archives and mediatised recordings of liveness.
Complete archive of Tsitsopoulos' “Is Art Lonely?” project, including artist CV; video of performance at LADA; curatorial texts; drawings; Is Art Lonely? (video), video and photo documentation.
In glass cabinet.
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.
Taking her starting point in sources such as the letters of Kierkegaard, Saxo's chronicles of Danish history, and the observations of Tycho Brahe, Abramović has created an immersive total installation that includes a range of rituals, an audio system and specially designed shelves for people.
The Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, 21 June 2017 – 21 March 2020.
Traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards, considering the unique challenges of documenting live events.
Examines innovative and avant-garde works in relation to contemporary events, festivals, commissions, the marketplace, and the changing functions of museums.
Introduces urban hitchhiking, a reflective practice of sharing a walk with strangers, and considers its relevance for research and artistic practice.
In misc. folder 7.