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Naked Boys Reading Anthology
The first annual anthology of commissioned new work by queer authors.
The Uses Of Autobiography
The contributors to this book, writing from a variety of subject disciplines and interests, explore a range of the uses of autobiography from the nineteenth-century to the present day, and from Africa, USA, the Middle East, France, New Zealand, as well as Britain.
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it–to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries.
Points East conference papers
Papers from the conference, held in Glasgow in December 1990. The conference addressed the implications for the arts of the political and economic changes in Eastern Europe.
After Kathy Acker: A biography
At once forensic and intimate, the biography traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody.
Open Books
The two performers open a book and read it with motion and sound impressions of it. The two characters transit from being two library ghosts to being the contents of books.
Recorded at AREA 10 in 2005.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Library Juice Concentrate
A compilation of the best of Library Juice, an e-zine that dealt with foundational questions of librarianship during a period of rapid change.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
A Place Free of Judgement
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.
Performing Idea Symposium documentation
Video documentation of contributions to the Performing Idea Symposium, investigating the shifting relations between performance practice and discourse, event and writing; Toynbee Studios, 5-9/10/2010.
Includes nine files, containing videos of contributions on In Silence, Performative Writing, Reciprocal Aesthetics and Living Archives.
Miranda July’s Intermedial Art: The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism
The first in-depth study of July’s work provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class.
Dada in Paris
Published in France in 1965, the book reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. More than forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early-twentieth century avant-garde. Translated by Sharmila Ganguly.
Sarrasine
Printed version of the 1830 novella by Honoré de Balzac, edited by Jim Manis and translated by Clara Bell and others.
