What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Includes a document with translations and the following performances:
1. En un fist fast
2. La caida del ser
3. Vigilia sex
4. Varios perfos expo
5. De docta ignor lombrices
6. De docta ignor desentarrarme
7. Pepafono 3 versiones
8. Ponme la mano aquí macorina
9. Sea anemone and the hermit crab
10. Embajadora de la buena voluntad
11. ¡Ah no!
12. Violence and tenderness
13. Cagandola a diestra y siniestra
14. Sweet sixteen
15. Times goes by and I can not forget you
Excerpt from the publication Two Chicanos on the Road.
A Performance Poem from the Series “Documented/Undocumented”.
Abjection builds awareness of post-porn power, which breaks away from the outdated distinction between eroticism and pornography.
Explores sites where the ideal of community relentlessly recurs, from debates over art and culture in the popular media, to the discourses and practices of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, to contemporary narratives of economic transformation or “globalization.”
Includes production stills and performance text.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Documentation from the performance at the ASU mainstage.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Relying primarily on first-hand reports from educators themselves, supplemented by interviews with practitioners, the chapters describe popular education approaches to organizing, leadership development, and building labor-community alliances.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR).
Jones travels the border regions of the world, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects, and their dire consequences for the majority of the people in the world.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Delivers a counter blow to the rampant culture of fear fuelled by the likes of CNN, Fox and the Daily Mail. Exploring contemporary and historical manifestations of this controlling force, the conversations in this collection go beyond just scrutinizing what constitutes rational versus irrational fear, or identifying ways in which human fears are manipulated by political players. They reveal how fear antagonizes and changes our subjectivity and, crucially, how the political use of fear has been resisted in different times and places, by different people across the globe.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Transcript from a performance; Live Art and Performance Art sessions, School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University
Publication documenting de la Rosa's participation in the 'A world of your own workshop', led by Geraldine Pilgrim.
The book explores what it means to create and experience urban performance – as both an aesthetic and a political practice – in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.
Documentation from the LADA event on (post)modern colonialism, held on on 13 Feb 2016.
Part of the Study Room Ambassador scheme.
Documentation from the LADA event on (post)modern colonialism, held on on 13 Feb 2016.
Incudes a communal text, details on the event, reflections by Leo Kay, Laura Burns, Christine Brault, Isil Sol Vil and Marina Barsy Jane, and photos.
Part of the Study Room Ambassador scheme.
Introductory note to the exhibition held at Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, 25 October 2012 – 11 March 2013.
This Article can be found in miscellenous folder 5B.
Editor Chon A. Noriega collects ephemera gathered from Gamboa’s three-decade-long dadaistic career. The book includes interviews with artists, poetry, fiction, collaged images, documentation of public and staged performances, photographic portraits of Chicano men, and political writings, including an essay on public schools reflecting his son’s first year in kindergarten.
Sheren explores performance art and politics on the US Frontera since 1984. Beginning with a political history of the border, with an emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, Ila Sheren explores the forces behind the shift in thinking about the border in the late twentieth century.
Film by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, for the LAUK Gathering, at Watershed, Bristol on 12 February 2015
Escandalario was the failed dream of an art gallery. The author revives the name in a book that critically reviews the involvement of artists in México in 3 basic economic activities of the free-market system: production; distribution and consumption of art. Contains a very helpful bibliography on the subject.
Part of “Negación y Utopía” (“Nagation and Utopia”), the first National Festival of Performance of Mexico, 6-29 November 2013, a platform showcasing work on Mexican identity and multicultural hybrids. This documentation includes recordings of the performance, exerpts, and interviews with the artist. Spanish language.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña talks viral infection, nomadic performance, immobility, psychomagic performance, and convalescence.
Part of CD series on performance in Mexico. In English and Spanish.
Part of CD series on performance in Mexico. In English and Spanish.
Part of a CD series on performance in Mexico. In English and Spanish.
Part of a CD series on performance in Mexico. In English and Spanish.
Archive of feminist performance in Mexico collated by Monica Mayer.
Video installation-performance of a dinner party written and directed by Monica Mayer.
Video of monologue for camera written and performed by Christopher Danowski: a white male travels to southern Mexico in search of Mayan mysticism and is instead confronted by surreal tourist behaviour.
DVD including excerpts from four performances: 14 UnNatural Acts; Mapa Corpo, Temple of Confessions, El Naftazteca: Cyber Aztec TV for 2000 A.D. Includes document with descriptions.
Videos from 2004 and 1996.
Examination of the artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art.
Performance documentation.
Part essay, part chronicle, and part performance text about the new “global” culture, its main risks and contradictions, artistic and pop cultural products, major philosophical trends, and political dilemmas.
Documentation from a performance site which was previously a church.
English and Spanish version of the publication available.
DVD slide portfolio of visual and performative art works by mexican artist Paola Paz Yee.
Spanish publication plus DVD with no English translation. Multimedia Images of a Complex World: Views from both sides of the Atlantic
Documentation and collection of critical writing about Mexican performance. In Spanish.
No. 5 of 15. Series compiled by Josefina Alcazar.
For the complete series see REF. D1381-D1395, all collected in box set to be found on oversize items shelf.
No. 4 of 15. Series compiled by Josefina Alcazar.
For the complete series see REF. D1381-D1395, all collected in box set to be found on oversize items shelf.
No. 3 of 15. Series compiled by Josefina Alcazar.
For the complete series see REF. D1381-D1395, all collected in box set to be found on oversize items shelf.
No. 2 of 15. Series compiled by Josefina Alcazar.
For the complete series see REF. D1381-D1395, all collected in box set to be found on oversize items shelf.
No. 1 of 15. Series compiled by Josefina Alcazar.
For the complete series see REF. D1381-D1395, all collected in box set to be found on oversize items shelf.
No. 14 of 15. Series compiled by Josefina Alcazar. For the complete series see REF. D1381-D1395, all collected in box set to be found on oversize items shelf.
No. 13 of 15. Series compiled by Josefina Alcazar. For the complete series see REF. D1381-D1395, all collected in box set to be found on oversize items shelf.
No. 12 of 15. Series compiled by Josefina Alcazar. For the complete series see REF. D1381-D1395, all collected in box set to be found on oversize items shelf.