Analyses the artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness, visual art and participatory practices.
Draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Brings together commissioned pieces by 50 artists and theorists whose works have shaped steirischer herbs over the past decade.
A catalogue that collects, anticipates, and activates the fantastic experiences and happenings of Fusebox 2018.
A limited edition book of photography and artworks emerging from the intimate eight-year collaboration between the avant-garde queer performance legend and the acclaimed London performance photographer.
A limited edition publication exploring a series of innovative live performances and events.
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.
Contains performance programme, performance texts and 3 CDs/DVDs, which include still images, a 6 minute edit and video of the full performance.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
A PhD thesis offering a new account of the emergence of performance forms, including Happenings, participatory art, performance art and performances for the camera, in visual art and related contexts at the ICA.
A small selection of study room material on the subject of documention.
La Ribot in conversation with Franko B.
Double Exposures is a new collaborative venture between Manuel Vason and forty of the most visually arresting artists working with performance in the UK.
Documentation of the first five years (2008 – 2012) of The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home.
The print edition is a limited signed and numbered copy of documents from the performance by the same title and an account of the process.
A collection gathering the voices of some catalysts of contemporary performance: artists, cultural engineers, curators, collectors.
Boxset contains 40 DVDS documenting public events with contextualising texts. Shelved in Oversize section.
Collection of essays in response to In Between Time festival, Bristol, 2013.
Performance Film Installation is a new publication designed to mark five years of solo and collaborative performances, films and installations by Natasha Davis, and coinciding with the London premiere of Internal Terrains at Chelsea Theatre as part of Sacred. A diverse range of authors and artists have generously responded to an invitation to provide insights into various aspects of Natasha's practice.
First English language publication dedicated to Raimund Hoghe, operating as a collage,drawing together a variety of international voices to create a fragmented portrait of the artist
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. Specially invited respondents working across the creative and critical field of performance (Nicola Cinibere, La JohnJoseph, Eirini Kartsaki, Harun Morrison, Joe Kelleher) gather to reflect upon the works experienced over the two days. Following, an informal conversation between the projects co-directors (Gavin Butt, Lois Keidan, Adrian Heathfield) looking back at the three-year project, its insights and paradoxes, and looking forward to the future of performance.
Lois Keidan revives some of the still live/still moving performance works in the 30 year history of the National Review of Live Art.
Panel discussion: Part of PSi18 at University of Leeds 2012. Can be found in Digital Videos 12 folder
An Interview with Neil Bartlett. This article can be found in Miscellaneous Articles 3 Binder
Sacred: Keeping the Faith, festival at Chelsea Theatre, London, 24-28 November 2011.
Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.
Special issue exploring music as performance.
Conference report. V&A Museum 18 December 1999.
Held in Misc Article Folder 2
From the Collecting Live Art Symposium, Saturday 26 January 2008.
A four-day programme of events and debates at the Tate Modern from 27-30 March 2003.
Artists an practitioners are interviewed by Franko B: Small Acts at the Millennium. Italian arts magazine, this article is printed in English.
A report on two new initiatives aimed at supporting Live Artists in the UK and raising the profile of their work.
“The Training Needs of Senior Promoters and Producers of Live Art Working in England”
Digital reference is folder containing four videos. Manuel Vason footage (see also British Library recording, D1620).
Live Art and Disability, Access All Areas: Robots Destroy the Tower of Babble!Digital reference refers to folder containing 4 movies. Manuel Vason footage (see also British library recording, D1624)
Live Art and Disability, Access All Areas: Robots Destroy the Tower of Babble! Digital reference refers to folder containing 4 movies. British Library recording, (see also Manuel Vason footage, EF5044)
Digital reference is folder containing four videos. British Library Recording, (see also Manuel Vason recording, EF5040).
One thing that all Kontejner’s projects have in common, at least from an entirely subjective viewpoint, is precisely that very direct, unequivocal focus on that which is “human, all too human” or phenomena that coexist with the standards of humanity. In this sense, Kontejner’s work is a permanent cabaret with acts that deal with the transgression of social conventions, with passions and fears related to machines and cybernetic mechanisms, obsessions with sensual pleasures and obstacles that prevent us from indulging in them…- Maroje Mrduljas, architecture and design critic, Zagreb.
Audio CD of Symposium and performances for Performing Idea.Track List:
Performance Matters, Performing Idea – Living Archives6th OctoberLiving Archives 3:00-7:30pmToynbee StudiosWith: Anne Bean, Rose English, Hannah Hurtzig, Janez Jan a and Heike Roms Gripped by a kind of ‘archive fever’, contemporary art and culture is driven by the desire to document, store and preserve. The archive is now a vast global edifice, crossing cultures and forms and reaching further and further into the past. Fleeting exchanges and moments are everywhere evidenced in contemporary art’s multiple but unstable papers, artefacts and traces. But what happens to the life of art in its archival forms? What is the archive doing with performance, performers with the archive? Speakers will address the relation between artists and the archival drive, the artist’s experiences and body as a kind of living archive.
Essays and creative texts accompany the photographic and textual documentation.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433), the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529) and the Study Room Guide in Search of a Documentology by Marco Pustianaz (P1115)
Leaflet accompanying Jyll Bradley’s project.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Social Engagement and Participation by French & Mottershead (P1290)
Video documentation of a debate exploring the ways in which artists can create new work with individuals and groups understood to be socially excluded and vulnerable.
Part of Sacred Season at the Chelsae Theatre, 28 April – 10 May 2008 (For full programme see REF. P1132).