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.
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.
A unique resource for LGBT+ spiritual seekers who want to experience the sustaining energy and strength of the worldwide queer community.
A kitsch video featuring the artist as a Mexican gunslinger arriving in Bethlehem for a duel with the Israeli Wall. Wearing a big sombrero and a scarf, the artist walks the streets of Bethlehem and greets the locals before taking off for her final showdown.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians’ everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Combining an art project with critical commentary, Fusco addresses the role of women in the war on terror and explores how female sexuality is being used as a weapon against Islamic terrorists. Using details drawn from actual accounts of detainee treatment in US military prisons, Fusco conceives a field guide of instructional drawings that prompts questions regarding the moral dilemma of torture in general and the use of female sexuality specifically.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Publication that accompanies an exhibition organized by the Institute of International Visual Arts in London, explores the representation of the veil in contemporary visual arts.
Images and dialogues exploring contemporary art’s engagements with risk.
Europe and the Middle East
uman rights and ethics
Highlights from the artist’s first UK solo exhibition at Rivington Place.
The Inhabitants of ImagesRabih Mroue9th October 8.30pm Toynbee StudiosRabih Mroue will present his new video-lecture: The Inhabitants of Images (2009), a playful complex analysis of the use and misuse of images for political and ideological purposes in Lebanon and the Middle East, coproduction between Tanzquartier-Wien, Bidoun Magazine and Ashkal Alwan/Beirut.
…and Sometimes Doing Something Political Can Become Poetic.
An extension of Alÿs’s previous projects called “Paseos” (Spanish for “walks”), where the artist carries out certain acts while walking through a predetermined location
Book includes a DVD. This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).
Transcript of the presentations and debates comprising the second part of the Global Art Forum 2 held on the beach of the Jumeirah Resort. March 19-21 2008.
1001 nights cast is a durational performance by Australian artist, Barbara Campbell. Each night at sunset, Barbara performs a short text-based work as a live webcast. The performance texts are written for her each day in response to a prompt she draws from the morning’s newspaper reports on the Middle East. The project will run for 1001 nights, ending on March 17 2008.
A gathering especially created for Performing Rights to celebrate a symbolic home coming to all those who can not return home; inspired by 14 months in late 1940s, when 369 Palestinian villages were eradicated.
From PSI 12.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).