Short text on the idea of disability arts.

Trashing Performance Photographs, 25-29 October 2011 by Christa Holka. Still images from talks and performances: 25 Oct – Trashing Salon, Mel Brimfield ‘This is Performance Art’, 26 Oct – Under/Overwhelmed, Lauren Berlant, Adrian Howells, Jennifer Doyle, Bird La Bird, Lisa Blackman, David Hoyle, Scottee, 27 Oct – Underground/mainstream, Neil Bartlett, Dominic Johnson, Bruce Benderson, Keith Khan, Performance Space, Lois Keidan, Mara Vujic, Dickie Beau, Gavin Butt, This is Not a Dream, Ben Walters, 28 Oct – outsider actions, Oreet Ashery, Joe E. Jeffreys, Bettina Knaup, Platform, Liberate Tate, Rocío Boliver, Bavand Behpoor, Marcia Farquhar, Femuseum, Lois Weaver, Amy Lame, Carmelita Tropicana, Bird La Bird, 29 Oct – Common, Franco Bifo Berardi, Tania Bruguera, Tavia Nyong’o, Simon Casson, Ingo Cando, Common Culture, Vaginal Davis.

Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.

Foreword by Catherine Texier

A compilation with exclusive interviews (Mark Stewart, Hermann Nitsch, Throbbing Gristle, Matthew Herbert etc.), short films, slide shows and music clips.

A collection of case studies, interviews and essays which explores the ways in which contemporary theatre is changing through new relationship between mainstream venues and experimental practices. 108 pages, 16 black and white photographs, 12cm x 16.5cm. This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).

On the art of comedy.

Part of C4 Artshock series.

Sitting up reading late at night, the author reflects on the links between the homosexual of the 1980s and his counterparts of a century ago, between gay lives today and those of Oscar Wilde, his friends, lovers and acquaintances.