The work of Sonia Boyce encourages and challenges us to ask what it means to be a black woman artist in a hierarchical art world, and to confront questions surrounding inter-racial relations in a society where cultural identities condense around myths of nationhood.
Performance video commissioned by Picture This, Bristol, as part of “Ghosting”, a series of research-based commissions on the themes of archive, memory and ethnography.
Interviews and scholarship.
Researching archived and contemporary memories of Brixton
Documentation of Jo Spence’s battle with leukaemia leading up to her death
Remember Saro-Wiwa is a coalition of organisations and individuals initiated and co-ordinated by PLATFORM. Pack includes press reviews, articles and promotional material, and a DVD ‘Refining Memory’ by Andrew Conio and Judy Price
A collection of documents of works by Those Environmental Artists, including audience questionnaires, project descriptions and promotional material.
Article written by Amy Sharrocks for the 'Performance Research on Falling' journal. Located in Miscellaneous Articles Folder 5A. This item is part of the Study Room Guide: On Falling by Amy Sharrocks (P2249)
Includes DVD. Catalogue for a conference in Vercelli and Turin in November 2010, Affective Archives. The catalogue gathers project documents, manifestos and contracts, open calls, addresses to the speakers and self-reflective essays, besides all the abstracts of papers and a selection of images gleaned from the spectatorial documentation that was specifically encouraged.
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.
He could be considered a latter-day English Dadaist, but Bruce Lacey's place in 20th-Century British Art is still uncharted and ill-attended to. He goes missing in critical accounts of mid- and late-century art and this short monograph is an attempt to remedy the omission by analysing his work in relation to the shifting cultural contexts of the period.
Feminist Futures? sets out to ask if and in what way feminism remains relevant to theatre and performance practice of the twenty-first century. Responding to this question is an excellent, cross-generational mix of theatre scholars and practitioners whose essays engage in lively, cutting edge critical debates on issues such as citizenship, autobiography, cultural heritage, political agency, and body/technology, as circulating in contemporary feminism and performance today.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
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
Organised around the text from ‘First Night' (2001) the book reflects on Etchells' practice with Forced Entertainment and solo work, while exploring contemporary performance documentation.
Approaches to thinking, writing, producing and receiving (syn)aesthetic performance
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Video document of performance. With movements both hers and of other choreographers, Denise Stutz guides the audience through a personal and emotional history of Brazilian contemporary dance. The memory of the body and its relationship to identity – as well as how this is inscribed in space and relates to the public – motivate and shape this solo.
Video document of a journey of recollection through embdied and spoken narratives drawn from a number of reference works by the artist.
Publication accompanying the homonymous symposium: a collaboration between Plymouth Arts Centre and artist Marina Abramovic to produce a performance event that explored the history and future of the artist’s work. Newspaper-style publication in large folder.
In Miscellaneous Articles 4 folder. Review of the work by Monica Ross involving a series of public recitations of the Declaration of Human Rights from memory together with other co-recitors.
A short guide to the life of this performance, spanning between 1999 and 2009. Farquhar narrates and performs acts of undressing and redressing through personal anecdotes. Includes one printed images. Booklet contained in large folder
Anthology surveying the phenomena of invocation and activation of memory, as well as active forgetting. Documents of Contemporary Art series.
Lois Keidan revives some of the still live/still moving performance works in the 30 year history of the National Review of Live Art.
Part of Dia Art Foundation series “Discussions in Contemporary Culture”, Number 4. Essays by Edward W. Said, Paula A. Treichler, Cornel West, Michele Wallace, Homi K. Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and others.
Interview with Katerina Seda in The Believer Magazine about her practice. This article can be found in miscellaneous article folder number 3
Explores the role of the fake, the false and the faux in contemporary performance and investigates the aesthetic and political potential of re-enactments.
Europe and the Middle East
uman rights and ethics
Collaboration between Áine Phillips and film-maker Rachel Davies. Large scale collaborative project commemorating lost women and girls. A week long workshop process generates a collection of sculptural costumes and culminates in a runway/catwalk performance dedicated to each lost girl represented. Supported by Culture Ireland, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Foundation, Live Art Development Agency and British Council. Part of Louder Than Bombs – Art, Acton and Activism Project.
The programme guide to the maiden voyage from the Boat Project by Lone Twin. The book is also available in the Study Room (P1868). This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964) and the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
Illustrated catalogue.
Documentary on artist duo Mau Wal.
Tells the story of the people who dealt with the disaster at Chernobyl at ground-level.
Documenting a trilogy of Brian Lobel's monologue performances from 2001-2011 about illness and the changing body over time. See D1845, ‘Cancer Cancer Cancer…' for documentation of Brian Lobel's performances
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
Brian Lobel- excerpts and full stage performances of: Ball & Other Funny Stories About Cancer, Carpe Minuta Prima, Hold My Hand and We're Halfway There, Cancer and Cigarettes, Tommyknockers, Guerilla Pub Quiz, Yoga at St.Barts and Fun with Cancer Patients
Spill National Platform 2009
Adam E Mendelsohn article discussing the retrieval of history through re-enactment.
George Chakravarthi, Selected Works, Aradhana – The Wish, The Longing, Remotecontrol, Shakti, Olympia, Genesis. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2010.
'Talking Heads' are short presentations by artists to camera about their practice and approaches to making. The 'Talking Heads' films are part of the Agency's 'Documentation Bank' Collection, which consists of an extensive range of artists' 'Talking Heads' films, documentation of artists' works and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
‘Talking Heads’ are short presentations by artists to camera about their practice and approaches to making. The ‘Talking Heads’ films are part of the Agency’s ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, which consists of an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’ films, documentation of artists’ works and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.
Part of the ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’, documentation of key works, and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.
‘Talking Heads’ are short presentations by artists to camera about their practice and approaches to making. The ‘Talking Heads’ films are part of the Agency’s ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, which consists of an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’ films, documentation of artists’ works and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.