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)
Report about the Arts and Humanities Resarch Council funded prject.
Explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories.
Genesis has selected h/er unseen and personal photographs to illustrate h/er journey of life as continuous creativity.
Limited edition; 352 / 1323. In glass cabinet.
Offers a richly detailed portrait of the internationally renowned composer, performer, director, and filmmaker.
In these essays on the cinema, the author documents the obsessions leading to “Paris, Texas” and beyond.
Publication celebrating the 20th anniversary of the festival of emerging practices. In French.
Anthology of scores, scripts, instructions, diagrams and documentation of art works that are meant to be heard.
From Acker's earliest interviews–filled with playful, evasive, and counter-intuitive responses–to the last interview before her death where she reflects on the state of American literature, these interviews capture the writer at her funny and surprising best.
Brings together established and emerging practitioners who work with light, as material or subject.