What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A Performance Poem from the Series “Documented/Undocumented”.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Hammer Museum, LA. 15 September – 31 December 2017.
An eyewitness account of the financial meltdown and ongoing grassroots rebellion.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Examines the frustrations and limitations of conventional Western academic research on social change and describes the struggle to fashion a new approach based on the principle that people have a universal right to participate in the production of knowledge that directly affects their lives.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Outlins the performance map in Mexico, calling on artistsfrom various regions of the country to investigate and trace the history of this artistic expression.
In Spanish.
Anthropologists, writers, philosophers, artists, sociologists and architects from around the world voice their views of the challenges facing society today. The content ranges from anecdotes to complex research projects. In Spanish and English.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
In Spanish.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
An overview of the first 10 years of the VERBO festival, featuring texts by Brazilian and foreign authors.
In Portuguese and English; some text in Spanish.
This is the first book on Mexican artist's broad range of production, bringing together two- and three-dimensional works, records of actions, sound and film recordings and archival materials, enabling a reading of Mayer's place in the construction of feminist practice in Mexico. In Spanish and English.
In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of the 'performance' uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.
Catalogue from the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco. Exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (September – December 2011) and Williams College Museum of Art (February – July, 2012).
Sheren explores performance art and politics on the US Frontera since 1984. Beginning with a political history of the border, with an emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, Ila Sheren explores the forces behind the shift in thinking about the border in the late twentieth century.
Mostra OSSO Latino Americana de Performances festival programme, 2013. Includes an introduction by Dani Felix. In Spanish and Portuguese.
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.
Regina Jose Galindo dencounces violence women and, more generally, the social, political and cultural violence of contemporary society.
Close analysis of a selection of Hincapie’s works by Jenny Lopez.
An analysis of the 1996 performance by Jenny Lopez.