Catalogue > By Keyword > ORLAN

23 results | Page 2 of 3

Saint Orlan: Ritual as Violent Spectacle and Cultural Criticism

Artist/Author: Orlan, Alyda Faber | Reference: A0386 | ISBN: 0-262-75805-9 | Type: Article

The French performance artist’s practice of self-directed violence creates a spectacle that violates the viewer and establishes Orlan’s body as “a site of public debate.” Her work radically exposes the violence of patriarchically established “beauty standards.”

The Special and the Unusual - Listening to Orlan

Editor: Robert Ayers | Reference: P0215 | ISBN: ISSN 1361-3731 | Type: Publication

Live Art Letters – A Live Art Research Journal. March 1999. Text in English and French.

Body Art / Performing The Subject

Artist/Author: Amelia Jones | Reference: P0013 | Type: Publication

This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)

The Cyborg Experiments

Editor: Joanna Zylinska | Reference: P0431 | ISBN: 0-8264-5903-X | Type: Publication

Body Art and Performance: the body as language

Artist/Author: Lea Vergine | Reference: P0123 | Type: Publication

Nearly thirty years after the first edition, this text–by now a classic–is republished with all the original photographic material.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)

This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

Getting Under the Skin - Body and Media Theory

Artist/Author: Bernadette Wegenstein | Reference: P1063 | ISBN: 0-262-23247-2 | Type: Publication

Analyses the tension between a fragmented and holistic body concept in performance art, popular culture, new media arts, and architecture.

sk-interfaces: Exploring Borders - Creating Membranes in Art, Technology and Society

Editor: Jens Hauser | Reference: P1022 | ISBN: 978-1-84631-149-9 | Type: Publication

An engaging, critical and thought-provoking approach to how current technologies are changing our perceptions of the body, the self and the interactions between bodies.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide in Search of a Documentology by Marco Pustianaz (P1115)