Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific and influential performance artists of the past four decades. Queer Communion, an exploration of Athey’s career, refuses the linear narratives of art discourse and instead pays homage to the intensities of each mode of Athey’s performative practice and each community he engages.
Final Transmission is a book of intergenerational dialogue between artists, scholars and activists about what it means to transfer the skills, ideas and mysteries of performance through pandemic and crises.
The book is the final edition of NS, Brian Getnick and Tanya Rubbak’s 6 volume archive of performance art and community in Los Angeles.
This book is packed with thoughtful exercises distilled from twenty-five years of interdisciplinary artist workshops and teaching devising and performance making at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Created and curated by Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, artists who work internationally at the interface of academia and professional practice, this collection provides exercises for devising, composing, and editing original works.
‘The book, that started four years ago as a possible form in which my ephemeral works could live on, gradually developed into an intensive writing project about movement and the imaginative power of language.’ Toine Horvers
Part of ‘series of rituals practicing ways to dialog with the natural world’ by Fernanda Branco, MA in Performance Norwegian Theatre Academy//Østfold University College.
On dance and performance since 1989 follows the congress of Tanzquartier Wien to which we had invited participants from all over Europe to talk about new geographies and artistic workforms and workspaces in the fields of dance and performance, about the widely interweaved and cross-referencing, often indistinguishable and multiply coded cultural figures of production, reception and reflection.
Booklet of the work of Andrés Galeano, Mart Stam Förderpreis 2011.
Paper leaves and other constructions
a reading companion to Always Already
compiled and edited by Karen Christopher & Tara Fatehi Irani
Always Already is an 8-hour performance installation by Karen Christopher & Tara Fatehi Irani, which uses materials, text, sound and movement to explore the weaving together of plant, human and machine, including human/plant and human/machine hybrids.
Paper leaves and other constructions is a 32-page booklet, introducing the themes and content of the project, and responding to many of the questions that arose in the creative process. Drawing parallels between a path through life and one through the making of a particular work of performance, the booklet answers the question “how did you do that?”
The booklet includes contributions from Karen, Tara, Payman Kassaei (Professor of Mathematics, Kings College), Felipe Ribeiro (performance artist and researcher), Omikemi (poet), Eirini Kartsaki (performance writer and teacher), and an interview with Henry Dagg (sound sculptor and builder of experimental musical instruments).
This series of interviews, held by curator and writer Gilane Tawadros are focussed entirely on Stuart Brisley’s practice and directed by him. The artist’s narration of his practice demonstrates an unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative or fixing the meaning of his works.
An edited volume that explores the work of the innovative, experimental and internationally acclaimed performance artist Marilyn Arsem, with 200 images.
Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.
La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Artists, into a pedagogical matrix suited for use as a performance handbook and conceptual tool for artists, activists, theorists, pedagogues, and trans-disciplinary border crossers of all stripes.
A special edition of Substanz featuring work from Performance Reihe Neu-Oerlikon 2020.
In German, Spanish and English.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Issue No 10 of Substanz featuring work from Encuentro Binacional México/Suiza.
Text in German, Spanish and English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Issue No 8 of Substanz featuring the work of Judith Huber.
Text in English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Issue No 4 of Substanz featuring text and drawings by Saskia Edens.
This performance arts issue is published on the occasion of Acción|MAD17-XIV Encuentro de Arte de Acción Madrid, November 2017.
Text in French and English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Issue No 2 of Substanz featuring the work of Lara Buffard and Lilian Frei.
This performance arts issue is published on the occasion of Acción|MAD17-XIV Encuentro de Arte de Acción Madrid, November 2017.
Text in German and English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Catalogue to the festival from 26.06.01-01.07.12 in llsede, Hildesheim, Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
A publication on the work of Claudia Bucher with texts by Eva Kramis, Heige Meyer, Max Huwyler, Guy André Mayor, Ruedi Schill, Permin Bossart and Adrian Hossli.
In German and English.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
A collection of essays on the artist Pascale Grau with dvd of Single-Channel Videos 1994-2008.
In German and English.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Text and photographic documentation of the work of Jörg Köppl and Peter Začek.
Kindly donated as part of the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Text in German.
Audio of the artist in discussion with Jospeh Morgan Scholfield. Event held on 13 February 2020.
A discussion in 17 thematic segments. 53 minutes.
Publication about the project which brought questions of archiving performance art to a broader public. In German and English.
Catalogue of the 7th Art of Encounter, focuses on anagrammatic encounters. 4/10-26/10 2018.
In german and English.
One of the contemporary art world’s most acclaimed mixed-media & performance artists, is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary that showcases her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Bonus features include two deleted scenes.
Investigates critical approaches to performance, ultimately aiming to stimulate new discussion between theorists and practitioners.
The curator who founded MoMA’s video program recounts the artists and events that defined the medium.
Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.’A genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the punishing force of desire.
Documentation of the event considering questions of archives and legacies through the art and lives of four extraordinary and influential artists who have died in recent years – Ian Hinchliffe, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Lol Coxhill and Roger Ely.
Explores Ann Lee as the subject par excellence of contemporary neoliberal capitalism.
Looks at two pieces which use the ‘scene’ of wreckage to pursue coherence.
On observing the Wooster Group process.
Exhibition publication: Misbehaving Bodies, Wellcome Collection, 29 May 2019 – 26 January 2020.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Eight issues of the interview zine about performance.
The first major survey of the artist’s interdisciplinary practices. Bringing together newly commissioned and other writings by major thinkers in and beyond visual and performance studies, and extensive documentation of the artist’s work from two decades of practice, it navigates through and between performance, biotechnical practices, image-making, and writing.
An interview focused on An Extraordinary Rendition, performance created in response to the work of Goat Island. In misc. folder 7.
Booklet about programmes held at the Swiss venue. In German.
Booklet about programmes held at the Swiss venue. In German.
Booklet about programmes held at the Swiss venue. In German.
Booklet about programmes held at the Swiss venue. In German.
Anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it: a tool for playful debate, collaboration, and intervention.
Documents a series of site-specific performances by bonelli, which took place at fallen Sound Mirrors along the southeast coast of England in the summer of 2019.
A book on the photography of Bob Raymond, who documented performance art for thirty years.
The fifth of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community.
The fifth of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community.
The fourth of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community. Looks at the artists who consider the aesthetics and play of communication, distribution of politicized actions, and working in multiple channels and platforms to be an integral part of their performance practice.
The fourth of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community. Looks at the artists who consider the aesthetics and play of communication, distribution of politicized actions, and working in multiple channels and platforms to be an integral part of their performance practice.