A critical examination of the varieties of multiculturalism and the way they structure difference.
Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? This book argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the ‘homophobic migrant’ who is rendered by society as hateful, homophobic and disposable.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Shows how contemporary art is a powerful yet largely unacknowledged player in the articulation of depression in Western culture, both adopting and challenging scientific definitions of the condition. Ross explores the ways in which contemporary art performs the detached aesthetics of depression, exposing the viewer's loss of connection and ultimately redefining the function of the image.
This engaging study examines the issue of crisis in European performance since the collapse of global financial markets in 2008. The book’s chapters examine diverse performances of crisis primarily in three cities with a loaded past and present for Europe, as idea and geopolitical reality: London, Athens and Berlin.
Publication that accompanies an exhibition organized by the Institute of International Visual Arts in London, explores the representation of the veil in contemporary visual arts.
Catalogue of the photo/text installation by the artist attempting to “correct” conventional presentations of marginalised and radical histories.
This book and the accompanying exhibition reflect on “otherness” in the attempt to escape from the European rhetoric of modernism endorsing a plurality of art-making practices.
A history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture.
On the contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora.
Video documentation of a project using web-cam technology to explore the relationship between the familiar and the uncanny. 2008 S.L.O. Project.
Argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism.
Feminist theatre companies taken in consideration: Women’s Theatre Group, Monstrous Regiment, Gay Sweatshop, Siren, Theatre of Black Women, Talawa, Sistren, Black Mime Theatre Women’s Troop, Tattycoram, Clean Break Theatre Company. This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)