Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow’s project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art’s participatory strategies.
Exploring performance and politics in the post-revolutionary state, Dangerous Moves presents a fascinating survey of contemporary life and culture in Cuba through some of its most daring and experimental artists.
Publication charting the history of the group’s work as musical pioneers. The book contains reflections and essays from founder members Jamrozy, Cunnington and Farquhar, plus Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), Ivan Novak (Laibach), Alan Sutcliffe (Kent Miners) and a host of others.
Audio CD of recordings celebrating The Final Academy and featuring the contributions of Joe Ambrose, ElectroRev, John Balance, De Straatslijper, Testing Vault & The Palgue Doctors for a total of 8 tracks. For related anthology and documentation see REF P2739.
An anthology celebrating The Final Academy and featuring the contributions of Joe Ambrose, Bee, Michael Butterworth & John Coulthart, Fritz Catlin, Emma Doeve, Paul A Green, Phil Hine, Spencer Kansa, Cabell McLean, John May, Jack Sergeant, John Balance, and unpublished interviews with William S. Burroughs and Terry Wilson. For related audio CD see REF D2190.
The video reconstruction of the 1977 production presented in this DVD keeps faith with the theater piece by registering, in a new composite, the vivid texture of time and memory that shaped the original production. Video reconstruction by Elizabeth LeCompte and Ken Kobland. This item can be found in the locked glass cabinet.
DVD of the collaborative performance by The Taipei Chinese Orchestra (TCO) and U Theatre performed at Zhongshan Hall in September 2007. “Breaking Dawn” combined modern theatre, percussive drumming and traditional Chinese music to create a visual concerto of sights and sounds.
The American performance artist Boychild pictured live on stage at her show at the Rifflandia TV Festival 2013.
The author discusses with Laurie Anderson her musical collaboration with Kronos Quartet featured in the Adelaide Festival 2013.
Program of the 2008 edition of the touring Contemporary Art Festival that took place in eleven cities in the Arab World and in Europe – Minya, Cairo and Rabat, Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Ramallah, Berlin and Brussels. (MP5) presented nearly 200 performances, exhibitions and film screenings during week-long programs hosted by galleries, non-profits and theaters in each city. Bilingual edition in English and Arabic.