Vanishing Points is a new anthology of cultural criticism, focusing on the making, watching and conditions of Live Art and performance in the UK today. Vanishing Points is edited by Salome Wagaine, with deputy editors Ava Wong Davies and Ben Kulvichit, and designed by Chani Wisdom.
On diffractive Co-conspiracy in Queer, Crip Live Art Production.
Performance Research pg 92-100, On Diffraction, Volume 25, No 5, July/August 2020.
This book is packed with thoughtful exercises distilled from twenty-five years of interdisciplinary artist workshops and teaching devising and performance making at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Created and curated by Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, artists who work internationally at the interface of academia and professional practice, this collection provides exercises for devising, composing, and editing original works.
An edited volume that explores the work of the innovative, experimental and internationally acclaimed performance artist Marilyn Arsem, with 200 images.
La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Artists, into a pedagogical matrix suited for use as a performance handbook and conceptual tool for artists, activists, theorists, pedagogues, and trans-disciplinary border crossers of all stripes.
An anthology of critical essays that draw on a decade of the authors thinking, writing about and working within contemporary performance as critics, producers, dramaturgs, makers, archivists and more.
Mishandled Archive offers a way of imagining, creating and disseminating an archive.
Issue No 9 of Substanz featuring work from Performance Oper-Air St.Gallen 2018.
Text in German and English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Issue No 6 of Substanz featuring text by Adela Picón and Maricruz Peñaloza.
This performance arts issue is published on the occasion of Acción|MAD17-XIV Encuentro de Arte de Acción Madrid, November 2017.
Text in Spanish and English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
A documentation of the events and survey of the work of more than 150 performance artists and contributors from France, Ghana, Germany, Great Britain, Mexico, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States presented over the years in the festival performance series Neu-Oerlikon (Zurich).
In German and English
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
An evening with artists readings of extracts from significant books held in LADA’s Study Room. Part of LADA at 20.
A discussion in 17 thematic segments. 53 minutes.
Explores fat activist language.
Artists from the Tempting Failure 2018 festival, photographed on an instant camera in the moments after their performance.
The first substantial survey of its kind, the publication brings together documentation of performances, drawings, videos, installations, and sculptures, as well as writings, interviews and visual essays by the artist. A series of commissioned critical essays show her to be a prolific maker of acts, objects, and multiple ‘selves’.
The first major survey of the artist’s interdisciplinary practices. Bringing together newly commissioned and other writings by major thinkers in and beyond visual and performance studies, and extensive documentation of the artist’s work from two decades of practice, it navigates through and between performance, biotechnical practices, image-making, and writing.
Daniel Oliver is dyspraxic and he creates awkward participatory performance worlds.This book documents some of those worlds, as well as bringing together critical and creative responses to them.
A specially filmed conversation between Ron Athey and writer Jennifer Doyle. Filmed in LA for LADA Screens by Brittany Neimeth.
Part of LADA Screens 6.
Super 8 film was made at the Festival de l’Etrange, Vidéotheque de Paris. Produced by Homemade FIlms.
Part of LADA Screens 6.
The fourteen essays bringing together a unique gathering of artists, many of whome make works which arise out of responses to the situation or the environment in which they find themselves.
A collection of archival materials in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library that represents the historical, cultural, and political legacy of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Short video recorded for the LADA reopening.
Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Exhibition catalogue. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, June-July 1994; Institute of Modern Art, August 1994, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, November-December 1995, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, February-March 1995, ACCA, April May 1995.
The pages of Emergency INDEX are open to all who work with performance. In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. Vol. 7 presents 260 works from 51 countries performed during 2017, documented in the words of their creators.
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Exhibition booklet; Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, 30 November 2018 – 24 February 2019
Booklet; includes archive images and biography.
A collection of archival materials in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library that represents the historical, cultural, and political legacy of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
A revision of Lone Twin’s On Everest.
It examines the 'performance of extremity' as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art's most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
The first book to explore the various ways the human body has been both an inspiration and a medium for artists over hundreds of thousands of years.
Includes documentation of:
– Someting Tender
– 3 : 3: 3
– For Always
Third issue of the online and printed zine about relationships and configurations in which one person is still while others are not.
Brings together a variety of essays, photographs and archival materials and on the history of early performance art in East Asia. The publication will include texts by An invaluable new research tool, the publication is available free at events and online.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Documentation from the Live Art event by disabled artists in the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, May 2012
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Documentation from the Live Art event by disabled artists in the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, May 2012
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A provocative history of live art traces the precedents of contemporary multi-media events to Bauhaus experimentalism and surveys the Futurists' manifesto-like events, the Dadaists' cabarets, and later “happenings” and “spectacles.”
This article gives examples of a number of initiatives by individual writers, artist collectives, and festivals that test forms of critical writing that are as experimental as the practices to which they relate.
This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium.
Archive and essay on the artistic exploration of exorcism. Includes a dissertation, CDs, DVDs, and objects.
In the glass cabinet.
Contributes to the ongoing critical discussions of performance and its disappearance, of the ephemeral and its reproduction, of archives and mediatised recordings of liveness.
Analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in late-medieval France and the twenty-first century, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
(States of Wake) was a live critical writing project that took the form of dedications as moments of critical attention, unfolding as part of WAKE Festival in Folkestone. This book is a document of that process and an exploration of the gesture of dedicating performance.
Performance at Studio 21, Kolkata. Part of Kolkata International Performance Arts Festival 2014
A genuine, humorous, and powerful reflection on love, life, death, and “fighting sickness with sickness.” Edited and compiled by Sheree Rose and Rhiannon Aarons.
Highlights the various aspects of particular interest and activity which make the British scene distinctive and exciting.
The first book bringing together writing and documentation on Martin O’Brien and marking ten years of his work.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Because of Love tells the story of the artist’s childhood in Italy in an orphanage and at the hands of his abusive family, his journey to London as a young man, his return to Italy many years later as an accomplished artist, and, in between, the story of his life and loves and his becoming an artist.