Zine of the project documenting and tracing the Ambedkarite movement in the 1970s.
Anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it: a tool for playful debate, collaboration, and intervention.
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.
Discusses how citizenship is performed today, through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Explores performance art through live manifestations and reiterations in photographs, film and video.
Publication charting the artistic practice of Jian Jun Xi.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Booklet; includes archive images and biography.
Publication accompanying a survey exhibition of image-making, community activism and public works produced by the seminal AIDS activist art collective Gran Fury between 1987 and 1995.
In misc. folder 7.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Short programme of the project which saw 2DL invite other artists into a conversation on identity.
A chronology of actions she performed between 2008 and 2015. The book was made in a limited edition, to be given, received, traded, lost, found, purposely lost lost, donated lent, passed on – and never sold.
Catalogue of an exhibition of artwork commissioned for particularly notable and challenging sites throughout Britain & Northern Ireland.
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.
Documentation (Power Point) from the DIY 13 project exploring notions of tripping and tipping points through the lens of the architect-walker.
Documentation from the DIY 12 project: can you start a University of Live Art in your front room, garden shed or local pub?
Exploring the ritual / performance / intervention that marks the tattoo-receivers journey from birth in parallel with the rise in carbon emissions that cause climate change.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Includes interviews, dialogues and critical writing on art and politics. In French.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Around 500 participants – usual radio listeners, no dancers or actors – were invited to enter the Leipzig train station, equipped with cheap, portable radios and earphones. By means of these devices they could listen to a radio program consisting of a choreography suggesting permitted and forbidden gestures (to beg, to sit or lie down on the floor etc.).
This documentary follows the interventions of the Heróis do Cotidiano collective throughout the city of Rio de Janeiro during the months of February and March 2010.
Postcards with suggestions for public space performances. In English and French.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Exploring movements through private-public space in the city, the impact of urban surroundings on us and our relations with each other.
Programme for the installation project by artist Fran Cottell and architect Marianne Mueller, reflecting on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground as the dream site for Jeremy Bentham's experimental panopticon, the real Millbank Penitentiary, a military parade ground and now university campus, outdoor gallery and thoroughfare to Tate Britain.
Large format programme for Hotel Obscura (Vienna performances). In German.
Starting with the questions: Does it Work? and How Can We Know? this article explores the effect and affect, or affect, of activist art.
Paper setting out new forms of audience participation in political and ethical terms.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).
In misc folder 6.
All issues (pilot-6) of the “international cross-artform bi-monthly”.
The Library of Performing Rights is a unique resource containing over 250 items submitted by artists, activists and academics from around the world that examine the intersection between performance and Human Rights.
The catalogue is available here and is continuously updated.
Please note the Library is currently housed in the Study Room but is a touring Library so please contact LADA before your visit to check it is not out on the road.
Includes The Wollstonecraft Live Experience! programmes and materials, two programmes for the Stoke Newington Literary Festival, and a list of publications.
A publication where the work Fabião has been developing in the streets since 2008 acquires a new dimension. Containts extensive photographic material and writings by the artist and original essays.
The publication explores art created in public spaces in Brazil, since 2000. In Portuguese and English. Published under the Creative Commons licence.
Short film of the performance. Filmed at Duh? Art & Stupidity show at Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, November 2015.
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This companion book to the exhibition of the same name investigates California’s vital contributions to Conceptual art—in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists.
The book assembles the work of 136 different collectives and artists, both Mexican and foreign, who created some 200 works in Mexico City over the period of a decade. Texts: Cuauhtémoc Medina, Edgar Hernández, Inbal Miller, Patricia Sloane, Guillermo Santamarina. Bilingual edition.
This article observes the historical examples of student struggle in former Yugoslavia by looking at the role of art in articulating that political firld and by applying artistic strategis to historical reconstruction.
The full screening programe from Playing With Space, a touring film programme curated by Lawrence Bradby that celebrates artists who have been making guerrilla interventions, granting themselves the right to make their own work public. The file include a PDF documents with information and text on the event.
An international survey that brings together 40 of the most influential approaches to art in public.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
This small publication documents the three commissions for The Bed Race Project curated by Amelia Beavis-Harrison with texts and images from each of the artists. Includes a short essay by Anneka French.
The author reviews Alison Klayman’s documentary on Chinese artist Ai Weiwei “Never Sorry”.
Itinerary map of Sideways festival organised as a 4 week expedition through Belgium, from West to East, between August 17th and September 17th 2012.
This visual report is the result of a series of public works wherein Jonas Staal and Harmen de Hoop used each other as performers for their work.
Institution for the Future is an archive of ideas bringing together reflections by artists, curators and other cultural workers on what an institution for the future should and needs to look like. With contributions from Ade Darmawan, Alexandra Hodby, Alistair Hudson, Dmitry Vilensky, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Elaine W. Ho, Gerald Raunig, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hu Xiangqian, Ho Tzu Nyen, Jens Hoffmann, Joao Ribas, Jun Yang, Keren Cytter, Liu Ding, Marina Abramovic, Michael Lee, Monika Szewczyk, Nikita Yingqian Cai, Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Roslisham Ismail, Ise, Sam Bower, Seng Yujin, Third Belgrade, Tino Sehgal, Vandy Rattana and Yoko Ono.
A small selection of study boxes curated by Live Art Development Agency for the Live Collision Festival in Dublin, April 2014. Boxes were based around live art history, disability, activism, bodily functions, race, queer performance.
Recording of William Pope.L’s intervention at Live Culture, a programme of Live Art performances, debates and presentations curated by Lois Keidan and Daniel Brine of the Live Art Development Agency and Adrian Heathfield.
2012 film revisiting the artist’s 1995 Liverpool street performance of the same name
Conversation texts by the artist with photographic documentation of works.
Documentation of works and interview with the artist.
An exhibition of proposals and new ideas in response to the De la Warr Pavilion
Published to document a programme of events in 2012.
Includes full text of A Suicide-Site Guide to the City and an essay on aesthetics of social intervention.