Provides a comprehensive overview of the development, theory and definitive characteristics of a rapidly developing and popular area of practice.
Exhibition catalogue with documentation from the installations in Cardiff, Portsmouth, Derry, London and Berlin.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Written by The People Show’s longest standing and original member, the publication chronicles a very other, non-mainstream way of making art, of living and breathing this art and all that it stands for, during the course of 50 years.
Through detailed case-studies on the work of key international theatre companies such as the Elevator Repair Service and The Mission Business, Blake explores how the digital is providing new scope for how we think about the theatre, as well as how the theatre in turn is challenging how we might relate to the digital.
A PhD thesis offering a new account of the emergence of performance forms, including Happenings, participatory art, performance art and performances for the camera, in visual art and related contexts at the ICA.
Exhibition publication. 10 March – 22 April 2016, TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth.
An overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s.
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.
This catalogue documents the multimedia performance project “Situation Rooms” – a multiple simultaneous cinema, augmented reality, and three-dimensional theatre experience.
Catalogue of exhibition held at the Jüdisches Museum Munich 26/02-09/06 2014.
Catalogue of the show Lines of Division at The Rubin Center.
The author discusses with Laurie Anderson her musical collaboration with Kronos Quartet featured in the Adelaide Festival 2013.
Review of the book edited by Judith Rudakoff.
Poses questions over the nature of action, identity and the self in the relationship with media forms.
'Performing Site-Specific Theatre turns a critical eye to the form of site-specific theatre, investigating the nature of the relationship between 'site' and 'performance'. Contributors: Joanne Thompkins, Anna Birch, Michael McKinnie, Susan Bennett, Julie Sanders, Jane Collins, John Webster, Mike Pearson, Kathleen Irwin, Susan Haedicke, Lesley Ferris, Louise Owen, Keren Zaiontz, Bruce Barton, Richard Windeyer, Helen Iball, Sophie Nield
Collection of essays
This publication articulates the theoretical context for a ‘cyborg theatre,’ metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to re-imagine subjectivity for a post-human age.
Artist archive.
Audio CD of interviews from the live sitting that took place at Tate Modern. An accompany book entitled Revealing Culture: HeadOn, Portraits of the Untold is also available in the Study Room. Ref: P1869
An artwork and body of research by Tanya Raabe.. An accompanying audio CD of interviews from the live sitting is also available in the Study Room. Ref: D1855
A performance script based on the life stories of Cambodian artists who survived the Khmer Rouge Regime.
A series of crucial practical exercises to help create challenging theatre which transcends the boundaries of nation, gender, and racial identity.
Features documentation of pieces ‘Projector/Conjector’ (2011), ‘Into the Skirt’ (2010), and ‘Pregnant?!’ (2009).
Features an overview of Mamoru Iriguchi’s work and practice.
Animalworks by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu.
Documentation from the first international showcase of Danish performing art which took place 2-7 October 2006.
A pamphlet collecting work made as part of his Burn’ artist residency 2010/11 with the New Art Gallery Walsall.
Leaflet refers to Franko B’s exhibition of embroidered canvases at The Nunnery Gallery in Bow,includes an essay by Michele Robecchi ‘Untouchable – The Three-Dimensional World of Franko B’ 6 May – 5 June 2011.
Chelsea programme notes:In a world consumed by identity crises and at the same time dominated by advertising, how might a humble being begin to claim back space?Director Richard Maxwell: “ADS captures and refines questions I have been thinking about for a long time. What is presence? What does absence provide? What is it about performance that I like? What is it about people that I like? ” ADS offers participants an opportunity to publicly state their beliefs with one stipulation: Be sincere.”Boundary-pushing…suggests…you can create humane, affecting works of theater without the literal presence of human beings.” – Charles Isherwood, The New York TimesConceived and directed by Richard Maxwell for New York City Players
This item is part of the Study Room Guide in Search of a Documentology by Marco Pustianaz (P1115)
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An encounter with Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes of La Pocha Nostra.
Audio and documentation of the work undertaken by students/artists at the Tomas Ruller’s Ateliér.
Lynn Hershman Leeson use of multiple personalities in photography, performance and digital media to explore concepts of identity.
Texts and video excerpts of works by students/artists at the Tomas Ruller’s Ateliér. MPEG, jpg and html files.
Documentation of the homonymous interactive performance. Reversed pagination – right to left
a Japenese collective. Its members include musicians, dancers, graphic designers, computer scientists, and architects.
Offers an accessible introduction to post-war avant-garde performance.
Featuring the work of over 100 artists and writers, this unique anthology maps the changing landscape of contemporary art and culture over the past decade in the context of global economics and local politics.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Paper for LAB
Documentation of Colombian performance, English version.