A typeface narrative revolving around an I, a pair of ravenous eyes, a mouth, and a peptic ulcer called O.

Passion takes up the theme of sacrifice that plays through all the work of the company, leading its audience into a re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross. 

In the glass cabinet. 

Examines the significance of the transgender body and presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms – especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

Soundtrack and audiobook of the neo-noir fever dream and 120 decibel suicide note.

 In glass cabinet.

Offers a glimpse of new perspectives on how philosophy performs in the gaps between thinking and acting.

Argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. Boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order.

A comprehensive resource of key writings on early cinema, addressing filmmaking practice, film form, style and content, and the ways in which silent films were exhibited and understood by their audiences, from the beginnings of film in the late nineteenth century to the coming of sound in the late 1920s. 

The essays in Women, the Arts and Globalization demonstrate that women in the arts are rarely positioned at the centre of the art market, and the movement of women globally (as travelers or migrants, empowered artists/scholars or exiled practitioners), rarely corresponds with the dominant models of global exchange. Rather, contemporary women’s art practices provide a fascinating instance of women’s eccentric experiences of the myriad effects of globalization.

Surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.

Live action.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Zine from the long term project led by Victoria Sin featuring artists using speculative fiction as a productive medium for intersectional queer experience.

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).

Includes Rick Moody’s extensive interview with Odyssey Works team members as well as six practical proposals that present a radically new unified theory of art making addressing immersivity and interactivity, experience design, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle as it relates to documenting artwork, and intimacy and empathy with the audience.

The book examines the creative processes of eight theatre companies making devising-based performances: The People Show, Station House Opera, Shunt, The Red Room, Faulty Optic Theatre of Animation, theatre O, Gecko and Third Angel.

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.

Recorded at the Barbican, London, in January 2010, this triptych examines and interrogates the joys and complexities of being a woman. 

On the occasion of a major exhibition, performance, and film premiere, this book considers Matthew Barney's epic seven-year project, an odyssey of death and its mythologies. The book also includes contributions by Jonathan Bepler, Homi K. Bhabha, Hilton Als, as well as facsimiles of the playbills produced for the related live performances.

A coming-of-age memoir about growing up in Cold War–era New York in a dysfunctional family of first-generation Jewish immigrants.

Brings together the action art and performances of the Belgian artist from the 70s to the present: drawings, thinking models, collages, films, photos and other documentation.

Anne Bogart’s collection of essay explore the storytelling impulse and asks how she, as a “product of postmodernism”, can reconnect to the prima act of making meaning and telling stories.

Located in Miscellaneous Articles folder 4.

Performance text. In Nights in this City, Forced Entertainment takes its audience on a coach tour of various locations in Sheffield. The performance consisted of commentary by two consecutive guides, a series of staged interventions in the city streets and other unpredictable events. Small booklet in large folder.

Portfolio of films and performances.

A book about devising, structured as a series of themed chapters intercut with case studies of key elements of the creative process.

From Fresh Air Platform 2010

Part of the ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’, documentation of key works, and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.

Hybrid Narratives curated by Levent Calikoglu at the Akbank Art Center, Istanbul, 5th September – 20th October 2007, artists included: Isil Egrikavuk, Harold Offeh, Irfan Onurmen, Denizhan Ozer.

The book contextualises, documents and analyses Lone Twin’s work. It explores their interest in live performance, journeys, places, language, narrative and image, and includes original interviews, essays, performance texts and photographs.

This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).

Includes images from the respective show, descriptions of the piece, credits and press quotes.

The explores the nature of performative writing and its relation to the staged event of performance. To be found in P1417.

The explores the nature of performative writing and its relation to the staged event of performance. To be found in P1417.

Video documentation of the text-based performance project. Part of the Beyond Text initiative. To be found in P1417. To be found in P1417.

Video documentation of the text-based performance project. Part of the Beyond Text initiative. To be found in P1417. To be found in P1417.

Still images from the text-based performance project “10 Performances”. To be found in P1417.

*currently unavailable*

Includes images and video documentation (D1320 – D1325), together with documents, texts, biographies, responses. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433)

Video document of Deleted Message, a performance by BADco. about emergent phenomena in collective movement – a meshwork of infected individual material and groupings. A strategy of marking of territory and delineating of hierarchical structures of performance through nonlinear dramaturgy and spam storytelling dismiss one possible narrative in favor of a complex system of singularities.

MA Dance Anthropology Dissertation

Includes 249 performances in the words of their creators and a comprehensive index of the terms used to describe them.