One of the contemporary art world’s most acclaimed mixed-media & performance artists, is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary that showcases her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Bonus features include two deleted scenes.
From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Combining the energy of the early seventies feminist movement with the perceptive analyses of the trained theorist, this is one of the most influential socialist feminist statements of its time.
Examines an array of issues, including sex as a subversive activity, the “liberated orgasm,” sex advice literature, gender uncertainties, queer politics, anti-pornography campaigns and the rise of the moral right.
The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
This memoir spans Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art.
The first work to critically examine the dilemmas and promises of representing feminist motherhood in contemporary art and visual culture.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
An in-depth research on the theme of borders and motherhood.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
The book explores Weaver’s collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot.
Two recommended reading lists of titles, artists and groups related to Live Art and Motherhood.
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See D1492 for DVD compilation of Jess Dobkin’s work.
www.jessdobkin.comSee also P1525 for Jess Dobkin: This is my work.
This book is exactly 25,000 words long which corresponds to the 25,000 metres or strokes the artist swam during the month her Mother was dying.
Issue 7 of liveartwork DVD, a publication showcasing contemporary live art.
Devised for a shopping arcadeA pantomine of speed and slownessRoles of motherhood and femininity
An account of Bobby Baker’s career by Adrian Heathfield, Marina Warner, Geraldine Harris, Helen Iball, Elaine Aston, Roy Foster, Michelle Barrett, Griselda Pollock, (Inc. info on Central St Martins, ‘How to Live’, ‘Diary Drawings’). This item is part of the Study Room Guide in Search of a Documentology by Marco Pustianaz (P1115)
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Art-Mama + Son With Big Bread (Event Photo, 2012), plus poster exhibition pamphlet for Art-Mama At Hospital in Fukushima (2012).