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.
Zine of the project documenting and tracing the Ambedkarite movement in the 1970s.
Brochure for the Live Art programme at the Liverpool Biennial 2002 (18-21 September).
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.
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.
Catalogue of an exhibition of artwork commissioned for particularly notable and challenging sites throughout Britain & Northern Ireland.
Documentation from the DIY 12 project: can you start a University of Live Art in your front room, garden shed or local pub?
Documentation (Power Point) from the DIY 13 project exploring notions of tripping and tipping points through the lens of the architect-walker.
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.
Publication on the group exhibition exploring current international developments in socially engaged art practices. CAA, 28 January – 12 March 2017.
Starting with the questions: Does it Work? and How Can We Know? this article explores the effect and affect, or affect, of activist art.
A catalogue of one of the most important contemporary Roma artists: a comprehensive overview of her oeuvre and a concise insight into the complex questions of the life of ethnic minorities. In Slovenian, Roma and English.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
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.
Leading scholars, artists, and activists examine the role of the arts in articulating the social agendas of urban mega-events like Olympic Games and World Expos.
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.
Exhibition catalogue. 18 September – 12 October 2014. Curated by Clemens Poole.
In Ukranian and English.
A curated program of temporary public art installations throughout the city of Kyiv, challenging artists and viewers to creatively address the changing physical, emotional, and social concepts of occupation.
Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company’s sponsorship of the arts in Britain.
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”.
Portfolio of images of the artistic work accompished by the duo over the last two decades.
The author discusses walk+talk – Philipp Gehmacher’s durational project inviting choreographers to deal with the driving parameters of their practices in simultaneously physical and verbal solo-explorations on stage.
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 publication offers a record of the counterculture work of the The San Francisco Diggers – a troupe of anarchists, with roots in the Theater of the Absurd, Existentialism, and strategies of direct action.