Published on the occasion of the Idit Elia Natham exhibition at Standpoint Gallery, London. 16 January – 14 February 2015.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Playing cards, for a performance/card game in which players are dealt body parts instead of numbers in suit. Players will combine their own cards and reproduce the combinations with their own body. When a combination is impossible to be made alone the player may borrow a part of someone else’s body to be able to continue to play.
During 2016 Blast Theory and Tony White worked with a group of young people in libraries in Telford and Wrekin to re-imagine libraries, story telling and their place in the world. On 29 October 2016, over the course of 9 hours from 3pm to midnight, the young people took control of their local libraries, and performed live to a worldwide audience. This book is a result of that process.
Artists and scientists analyse the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).
Reviews from New York: Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), The Sound and the Fury (Elevator Repair Service), Argument Sessions (Ilana Baker)
Documentation and reflections on the project that took over three disused shop spaces in Sharrow, Sheffield. Started in 2002, the project continues around the country to this day.
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.
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.
A documentary film that chronicles the making of an installation-cum-performance of the same name.
Special issue on ono-to-one encounters, desire, reciprocity and ethics.
Poses questions over the nature of action, identity and the self in the relationship with media forms.
Includes: Weaveair (2000); Creatures (1998); Octopus at the Shoreditch Gallery – London (1995 – 2000); M Groisman Dance Co (1997); Transference (1999)
Exploration of technology's influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
An interactive electronic opera for dance and voice. In Spanish and English.
Commissioned and performed for the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Festival archive. NOTE: Text is in Korean and English (publication acquired from Korea Performance Art Festival)
Recording of performances. 2004-2008.
Spill National Platform 2009
Part of the ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’, documentation of key works, and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.
‘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.
‘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.
Contributions from Gabriella Giannachi, Duncan Rowland, Steve Benford, Jonathan Foster, Matt Adams & Alan Chamberain
Essays by Richard Grayson and Matt Adams. Documentation of an ambulatory work commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2009. This project is based on real world events and is an explicit engagement with political questions. Participants are invited to assume the role of Ulrike or Eamon and make a walk through the city while receiving phone calls. The experience culminates with an interview in a hidden room.
Gob Squad's Kitchen takes one of Andy Warhol's films, ‘Kitchen', as its starting point. A quest for the original, the authentic, the here and now, the real me, the real you, the hidden depths beneath the shiny surfaces of modern life.
Zagreb-based collaborative performance group.
A selection of articles & essays which reflect upon the project SwanQuake.SwanQuake is a unique project involving the ongoing making of an interactive artwork comprising 3-D computer graphic environments and motion-capture driven characters created from a variety of materials and methods by an interdisciplinary team gathered together and led by igloo.Authors: Scott deLahunta (editor) Johannes Birringer, Helen Stuckey, Shiralee Saul, Bruno Martelli, Ruth Gibson, John McCormick, Katharine Neil, Alex Jevremovic, Adam Nash, Helen Sloan, Stephen Turk, Marco Gillies, Harry Brenton & David Surman.
Shelved in Oversize publications section.
Contains History of Gob Squad in 30 minutes, Room Service, Super Night Shot and King Kong Club. Double disc set
Application Form available to view for reference in the Artists Archive in the Live Art Development Agency office. Please ask. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Social Engagement and Participation by FrenchMottershead (P1290)