Documentation of the event marking the end of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four, a project about Live Art and Cultural Privilege.
A revival of medieval animal trials featuring Snoopy the Jack Russell terrier in court for sheep worrying.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
Accompanies the performance and exhibition Four Legs Good, Compass Festival, 17-25 November 2018.
The revival of documentary in art, considered in historical, theoretical, and contemporary contexts.
Do you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and anti-capitalist politics? Is criminalising clients progressive – and can the police deliver justice?
How much of what we understand of ourselves as “human” depends on our physical and mental abilities—how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much of our definition of “human” depends on its difference from “animal”?
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
A fat activist with more than 30 years experience, lifts the lid on a previously unexplored social movement and offers a fresh perspective on one of the major problems of our times.
A one hour reading of testimonies from the survivors of the armed conflict in Guatemala.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Initially galvanized by the sweeping obliteration of architecture and art under the Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and eastern bloc countries, Gamboni investigates other instances of destroyed art and architecture around the globe, uncovering a disquieting and surprisingly widespread phenomenon.
Twenty two 3 minute shorts directed by international filmmakers to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
A film showing the imagined interior of a prison, sculptures by prisoners on themes of rehabilitation.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
11 battered women prisoners serving life for killing in self defense narrate a collective, painful story of injustice.
15 minutes.Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
A series on Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. The first volume emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
The book looks at theatre and performances that often occur quite literally as bombs are falling, as well as during times of ceasefire and in the aftermath of hostilities. Includes interviews with artists, short play extracts, and photographs.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
The first comprehensive account of the complex relations between legal process and performances. Through ten major principles of performance within law, it establishes how law itself is a performative mode of practice and reflects upon the co-dependence of law, performance and politics in celebrated works of theatre.
Social Movement of the Body: a series of laboratories in collaboration with Latin American universities.
Includes separate artist CV, portfolio and press clippings.
Short clips. 3:44
Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights.
Examined Life explores the way we see the world and philosophy’s ability to influence it