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Wait it Out

Artist/Author: Sandra Johnson | Reference: P4256 | ISBN: 978-1-872493-61-9 | Type: Publication

Wait it Out is published in relation to the research and preparations made for Sandra Johnson’s solo exhibition at Project Arts Centre in 2019 with newly commissioned works. Through an extensive conversation between the artist and curator, editor Livia Paldi, and additional texts and visual documentation the book presents a rich trajectory and variety of reflections to relate to the exhibition and performance at Project, as well as the pre-history that undergirds the project with special focus on Johnson’s work in Dublin during the 1990s.

White Rabbit

Artist/Author: Spike Mclarrity | Reference: P4253 | ISBN: 978-1-5272-8823-2 | Type: Publication

Celebrating ten years of Barnes’ White Rabbit.

 

He makes everyone smile on a miserable day,

And does lots of things in his own unique way,

He loves art and performance and sometimes he’ll sing,

His outlook on life is a wonderful thing.

He’s quite a celebrity and travelled afar,

He’s met famous people some of them stars,

New countries, new culture and so much more,

To live life to the full is what he aims for.

Around his home town he’s a familiar sight,

With his bright coloured clothes and Japanese bike.

He cycles around shouting hello as he goes,

This is White Rabbit who everyone knows.

Let's Pretend None of This Ever Happened

Artist/Author: Tim Etchells | Reference: P4252 | ISBN: 978-3-95905-767-7

Let’s Pretend None of This Ever Happened documents neon, LED and other text works by the British artist Tim Etchells. The book creates a compelling and comprehensive investigation of Etchells’ projects in public space and galleries, leading with images of key works installed in sites all over the world.

 

Alongside its wide-ranging image survey, this work features an extended conversation between the artist and Jule Hillgärtner, director of Kunstverein Braunschweig, as well as a text by curator Ben Borthwick.

 

Surveying the full range and approaches of Etchells’ sculptural work with text, Let’s Pretend None of This Ever Happened creates dialogue across the artist’s works spanning sixteen years, as well as exploring the complex relation between individual works and the different contexts in which they have been installed over the last several decades.

Dinner With America

Artist/Author: Rajni Shah | Reference: P4251 | ISBN: 978-1-907055-00-3

Dinner with America is the second in a trilogy of performance installations addressing the complexities of cultural identity in the 21st Century. Where the first piece in the trilogy, Mr Quiver (Nuffield Autumn 07), explored Indian and English stereotypes, this piece questions what America means to us.

 

As the performance space shifts and transforms around the audience, it gently uncovers themes of consumerism, rights, ownership, voices, hopes, harvest and division in a visually compelling and unusual piece of work.

 

This booklet was published in November 2008 to accompany the touring production of Dinner with America by Rajni Shah Theatre. All images, films and texts were made during and as part of the creative process. They are designed to illuminate both the core and outlying ideas that inhabited the artists’ thinking at the time of making the show, between February 2007 and November 2008.

Take Me To Your Favourite Place

Artist/Author: Maria Sideri | Reference: P4249 | Type: Publication

This work is in French.

Take Me To Your Favourite Place is an audio and written journal that starts with artist Maria Sideri’s trip to Brussels. The work suggests a subjective geography that observes and reinvents the city and its miscellaneous facts, in order to create movements between the spaces of a metropolis in constant transition.

Creating Ourselves: The Self in Art

Artist/Author: Emily Butler with Candy Stobbs | Reference: P4248 | ISBN: 978-0-85488-257-1 | Type: Publication

This book explores the self in modern and contemporary art. Accompanying an exhibition in four chapters of the ISelf Collection at the Whitechapel Gallery, it looks at the complex ways in which artists are thinking about identity as an individual, in relation to others, to society and the wider world.

Jess Dobkin's Wetrospective: Constellating Performance Archives

Artist/Author: Laura Levin | Reference: P4247 | ISBN: 978-1-83595-044-9 | Type: Publication

Celebrating the first-ever retrospective exhibition of performance art icon Jess Dobkin, this book reflects on the internationally acclaimed artist’s playful and provocative practice as a performer, curator, and community activist, and asks: How do archives perform? With contributions by more than twenty renowned performance scholars, archivists, and creative collaborators and a riot of full-colour photographs, Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective provides unparalleled access to Dobkin’s artistic process and production from the last thirty years.

Leigh Bowery: Performative Costuming and Live Art

Artist/Author: Sofia Vranou | Reference: P4246 | ISBN: 978-1-83595-123-1 | Type: Publication

A critical exploration of the creative practice, socio-historical context and cultural impact of multifaceted artist Leigh Bowery. Engaging with Bowery’s key looks and live art through a variety of disciplines and challenging research contexts, Sofia Vranou navigates costuming as a performative strategy that blurs the boundaries between art and life.

Thought-provoking and enlightening, the study investigates his aesthetics of freakishness and narcissistic desire as well as his fascination with extremity, hybrid embodiments and trans-queer visual language, establishing Bowery as a radical figure in contemporary perfromance and queer visual culture.

Passion Play: turning neurodivergent joy into performance art experiences

Artist/Author: Daniel Oliver | Digital Reference: EF5407 | Type: Digital File

Video documentation of ‘Passion Play’, an event curated and presented by Daniel Oliver, in collaboration with Access All Areas and LADA, on 1st August, 2025 at The Garrett Centre.

Included in the footage is: performances by graduating and former students from Access All Area’s ‘Performance Making Diploma’: Bruno De Ceita Pedro, Jacob Dean, Claire Dunbar, and George Webb, an introduction from Oliver and Dean, and a Q&A.

The event was funded through the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama’s knowledge exchange funding.

This is a video file and includes closed captions. Filmed and edited by Claire Nolan.

 

 

LADA at 20: Interview with LADA Founder Lois Keidan

Artist/Author: Lois Keidan | Digital Reference: EF5406 | Type: Digital File

An interview with Lois Keidan on the history of the Live Art Development Agency, recorded in 2019 to mark LADA’s 20th Anniversary.

 

 

 

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