25 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery – for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics.
A collection of music and words created in MiD workshops.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
The universal basic income idea is, overall, profoundly performative, in that it attempts to model the ultimate pragmatism of wider social nets of generosity, and does so by representing the embodied conditions that might be brought into being by such generosity. In this way, the utopian heuristic of an unconditional, guaranteed income is said to be an ‘instrument of freedom’ and a ‘device for economic sanity’. The question is though, as is often the case: freedom and sanity for whom?
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
This text finds the intimate affinity between dance and philosophy in the concept of problem and invites the reader to perceive dance and philosophy as a form of ballistics: the art of throwing.
Resisting the control of the image, transcending from the 2-dimensional, practicing being-a-body-in-the-world.
A practical handbook on the lost art of getting lost, reading the signs around you, following their lead, and creating your own.
Publication on the participatory mapping project developed that took place on the Redways in Milton Keynes from 17th – 29th July, 2018.
In glass cabinet.
A journey through the void, ephemeral and digital towards play and poetry.
A collection of prophetic dream texts and images found in the ribcage of an ancient Priestess buried in a Sky Temple of former Tibet.
The latest collaboration between Glenn Kaino and Derek DelGaudio, who work together as the conceptual performance art duo A.Bandit to make magical art.
Useful and entertaining advice for developing a holistic body-mind practice.
A practical guide for the queer ritualist.
Tells the incredible story of the emerging radicalism of the Gay Liberation Front, providing a vivid history of the movement, as well as the new ideas and practices it gave rise to across the United Kingdom.
Presents principles of the work by the Theatre of Research as a plea for transgenerational research in performance and Live Art.
On performing feminist values for children.
Publication on the annual conference about socially engaged art organised by Heart of Glass in St Helens. Participants were invited to collectively source local ingredients and create, serve and eat a meal.
A series of written artists’ instructions, each of which is interpreted anew every time it is enacted. Instructions here were part of the Manchester International Festival at the Manchester Art Gallery, 2013.
A guide exploring how to embed democratic practice within arts and cultural organisations. In misc folder 7.
Complete archive of Tsitsopoulos' “Is Art Lonely?” project, including artist CV; video of performance at LADA; curatorial texts; drawings; Is Art Lonely? (video), video and photo documentation.
In glass cabinet.
An anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it; a tool for playful debate, collaboration, and intervention.
A collection of written and visual responses to the works of British artist, Qasim Riza Shaheen. Essays, reflections and conversations, by eminent scholars, curators, artists and collaborators, consider the multiple aspects and the experience of his works.
In English and Urdu.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 30 January – 18 March. Presents the programmes implemented during the four-year CAPP project.
In Hungarian and English.
A supplement in St Helen’s Star, sharing and documenting the project which has been taking place in the town since for 12 years.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A chronological review of a decade of endeavours by one of the most astute Slovenian projects of contemporary performing arts. The publication with extensive visual material and excerpts from texts documents 29 performances accompanied by Dr Blaž Lukan’s essay Erasing the Audience which analyses the company’s performing strategies.
On the participatory performances of Robyne Latham.
Taking her starting point in sources such as the letters of Kierkegaard, Saxo's chronicles of Danish history, and the observations of Tycho Brahe, Abramović has created an immersive total installation that includes a range of rituals, an audio system and specially designed shelves for people.
The Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, 21 June 2017 – 21 March 2020.
Combines performance analysis with contemporary political philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political performance and the performativity of the politics of the street.
Performance at Studio 21, Kolkata. Part of Kolkata International Performance Arts Festival 2014
Programme for the event exploring questions of negotiation, exchange and representation in contemporary collaborative arts practice. (20-23 June 2018, Dublin.)
Describes the framework in which Deveron Projects works and contributes to the social wellbeing of Huntly.
When the performer leaves the scene and makes room for the audience.
Publication on the week-long, 24/7 durational performance art event which took place in a three-bedroom house, showcasing 10 international artists living and working together and live-streamed on Youtube.
A visual crossword puzzle, a treasure hunt where the riches are road names, a story emerging from the page: and the chance to win up to £10,000!
A chronology of actions she performed between 2008 and 2015. The book was made in a limited edition, to be given, received, traded, lost, found, purposely lost lost, donated lent, passed on – and never sold.
On curating psychedelic experience.
Short programme of the project which saw 2DL invite other artists into a conversation on identity.
Culture and democracy are two sides of the same coin; we need to create structures that reflect this.
In misc. journals.
The result of five years of practice-based creative research focused on the UPRISING project, the book presents a number of methods for the creation of politically charged interactive public events in the style of a how-to guide.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Compiles the correct answers of six UK naturalisation exams.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged.
A response to KAPUTT: The Academy of Destruction at Tate Modern, October 2017.
Develops and encourages you to inhabit — through narratives or spatialized experiences — Deep Maps of places you want to understand in a robust, inclusive, and expansive ways, which is not possible with traditional mapping.
One to One performance that takes place in a public café and explores surveillance and profiling in “the war on terror.” The eight minute video includes an interview with the artist.
Published on the occasion of the Idit Elia Natham exhibition at Standpoint Gallery, London. 16 January – 14 February 2015.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
A study of installation art, from its marginalized beginnings in the late 1950s to its central position in today’s art world.
Artist book: “here for you to take detailed logs of your everyday aggressions so that you can show off your receipts – proof.”
Playing cards, for a performance/card game in which players are dealt body parts instead of numbers in suit. Players will combine their own cards and reproduce the combinations with their own body. When a combination is impossible to be made alone the player may borrow a part of someone else’s body to be able to continue to play.
A film about the future by Eva Meyer-Keller, Hanna Sybille Müller and the children who took part in the performance project Building after Catastrophes.