Issue no 5 of Substanz featuring text by Marc Mouci.
This performance arts issue is published on the occasion of Acción|MAD17-XIV Encuentro de Arte de Acción Madrid, November 2017.
Text in German and English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the development, theory and definitive characteristics of a rapidly developing and popular area of practice.
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.
The project received overwhelming worldwide attention and spawned provocative online debates; ultimately, Bilal was named Chicago Tribune’s Artist of the Year. Structured in two parallel narratives, the story of Bilal’s life journey and his Domestic Tension experience, Shoot an Iraqi is for anyone who seeks insight into the current conflict in Iraq and for those fascinated by interactive art technologies and the ever-expanding world of online gaming.
On Present, a 5 day performance at the Stanley Picker Gallery. Oversized item.
A live documentary made in collaboration with a group of young people, set on the streets of Manchester. To take part you go online and choose from 3 people’s streams.
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).
Newspaper published to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary.
This collection of essays sheds new light on the political, ethical and aesthetic potential of participatory artworks and tests the very latest theoretical approaches to this subject.
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.
Through detailed case-studies on the work of key international theatre companies such as the Elevator Repair Service and The Mission Business, Blake explores how the digital is providing new scope for how we think about the theatre, as well as how the theatre in turn is challenging how we might relate to the digital.
Publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Transition Gallery, 16 June-15 July 2007; with texts by a number of writers including Iain Sinclair, Charlie Porter and Ruth Jarvis.
The most provocative voices of the Digital Age grapple with the direction of digital technology and its concomitant issues, including virtual identities and their relationship to the physical self, the collision of commercial and community interests on the Net, the Net threat to intellectual property, and the merger of art, popular culture, and commerce in interactive media.
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 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.
Document of essay presented at the Performing Documents Conference (Arnolfini, Bristol), 12-14 April 2013, exploring how performance archives can be situated in the cultural and critical context as sets of relations eliciting the meaning and force of events lived primarily in and through the in(tra)corporeal.
Article on how intimate performance develop the relationship between audience and performer/performance.
The author reviews Alison Klayman’s documentary on Chinese artist Ai Weiwei “Never Sorry”.
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.
Documentation recorded at Video de L’espectacle Filmat en Directe Antic Theatre. in Spanish and English
An interactive electronic opera for dance and voice. In Spanish and English.
An interactive audiovisual installation which consists of a projection and various interfaces, a landscape full of situations enabling the spectator to choose which route to follow and construct his/her own story.
Fred and Ginger meet Barry Manilow in this ‘carnival in a closet’ dealing with an imagined Rio de Janeiro. Part of Sacred, Chelsea Theatre, London, 24-28 November 2011.
Fred and Ginger meet Barry Manilow in this ‘carnival in a closet’ dealing with an imagined Rio de Janeiro. Part of Sacred, Chelsea Theatre, London, 24-28 November 2011.
This is Not a Dream charts four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism, following the influences of Andy Warhol, Jack Smith and John Walters. Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.
This is Not a Dream charts four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism, following the influences of Andy Warhol, Jack Smith and John Walters. Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.
Commissioned and performed for the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Festival archive. NOTE: Text is in Korean and English (publication acquired from Korea Performance Art Festival)
Documentation of performances (50 mins). See also, P1640.
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.