One of three catalogues published for thee exhibition As Public As Race, a series of performances organised in Summer 1992.
James Luna's performance was held on June 3rd.
Explores the development of South Asian dance and the changing priorities it has been given by funding agencies.
A collection of polemical writings, assaults, comments and theoretical discussions and analysis that appeared in reaction to the eponymous video, made in Belgrade, in 2007.
In Serbian and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Despite the problematic politics of cultural exchange in the theatre, interculturalism is not a one-sided process. Using the metaphor of the hourglass to discuss the transfer between source and target culture, Pavis asks what happens when the hourglass is turned upside down, when the `foreign' culture speaks for itself.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Exploring theater works created for, by, and with refugees, this hybrid collection of essays combines newly commissioned scholarly work with examples of writing by refugees themselves.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
This engaging study examines the issue of crisis in European performance since the collapse of global financial markets in 2008. The book’s chapters examine diverse performances of crisis primarily in three cities with a loaded past and present for Europe, as idea and geopolitical reality: London, Athens and Berlin.
How are hybrid and diasporic identities performed in increasingly diverse societies? How can we begin to think differently about theatrical flow across cultures?
This book writes explores the South Asian music scene within the study of race and identity uncovering the crucial role its expressions – from Hip-hop, Qawwali and Bhangra through Soul, Indie and Jungle – have played in a new urban cultural politics.
This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Cultural Diversity in the Arts’ held in Amsterdam on February 9 and 10, 1993.
Professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist’s responsibility to society. Contributors: Page duBois, Ewa Kuryluk, Kathy Acker, Elizam Escobar, Martha Rosler, Eva Hauser,Coco Fusco, Carol Becker, Felipe Ehrenberg, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Michael Eric Dyson, Salman Rushdie / Ahmad Sadri, Henry A. Giroux, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and B. Ruby Rich
A history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture.
Discusses contemporary art and the relations between art, politics and society. Their dialogue ranges widely from censorship and obscenity to the social conditions of artistic creativity, and focusses on the central themes in the work of both authors.
Platform Study Room Guide (P1820). This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).
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.
Based on a new performance series the artist began in May at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art as part of the ‘Made in China’ exhibition.
On the contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora.
Publication documenting the first public meeting of the institutions that engendered the ENPARTS project (European Network of Performing Arts).
Special one off edition produced to accompany the exhibition Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009
*currently unavailable*
Documentation of the homonymous interactive performance. Reversed pagination – right to left
Topics include: development of the social model of disability; disability and the politics of social justice, disabilities and theories of culture and media; disability, ethnicity and generation; the policy options for empowering disabled people, and how the disabled are empowering themselves; the disability arts movement; media treatment of disability.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529)
brochure to accompany the Priceless project
Through the notion of ‘multicentricity', Cheng surveys performance art in Los Angeles from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Records the history of the post-war African and Caribbean diaspora, tracing the transformations of Black culture in British society.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Social Engagement and Participation by FrenchMottershead (P1290)
Adopts Fernando Ortiz’s concept of ‘transculturation’ to examine the performance career of Elia Arce.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Social Engagement and Participation by FrenchMottershead (P1290)
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Social Engagement and Participation by FrenchMottershead (P1290)
This item is part of the Study Room Guide: The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get by Robert Pacitti (P1100)