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Visions of the Occult
This lavishly illustrated magical volume acts a potent talisman connecting the two worlds of Tate – the seen public collection and the unseen secrets lurking in the archive. The pages of this book explore the hidden artworks and ephemera left behind by artists for the first time idea and will shed new light on our understanding of the art historical canon. This book explores the symbiotic relationship between art and the occult and how both can act as a form of resistance to challenging environments. This book will change perceptions forever and illuminate the surprising breadth and extraordinary ways in which artists interpret not just the physical world around them but also the supernatural, and in doing so make the unseen, seen. If you think you know Tate artists, it’s time to think again.
FUTURERITUAL Film night
Documentation of the evening which featured a screening of short films and performance documentation by artists working around ritual, performance and queer futurity.
Love on Me
Draws strength from conversations with the performance artist Ron Athey and readings from Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag.
Please note that Queen Mary University of London holds the entire archive of the late artist.
The 2 of Us
A romantic exploration performance about love and human relationships.
Please note that Queen Mary University of London holds the entire archive of the late artist.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Limited Edition Photo Biography
Genesis has selected h/er unseen and personal photographs to illustrate h/er journey of life as continuous creativity.
Limited edition; 352 / 1323. In glass cabinet.
Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry
Spells are poems; poetry is spelling. Spell-poems take us into a place where the right words can influence the universe.
Unlimited Action: The performance of extremity in the 1970s
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)
In Aching Agony and Longing I Wait for You by the Spring of Thieves
Marks the finissage of Abboud’s solo exhibition The Horse, the Bird, the Tree and the Stone at Bildmuseet (Sweden, 21 May – 17 September 2017) and the inauguration of her solo show The pomegranate and the sleeping ghoul at Darat al Funun-The Khalid Shoman Foundation (Jordan, 10 October 2017 – 11 January 2018).
Performing Magic on the Western Stage: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen & Teller.
Cards as Weapons
A nationally known sleight-of-hand expert, movie actor and magician extraor dinaire, presents a stylish parody of self-defense books that demonstrates how ordinary playing cards can be used as a means of protection.
