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Performance

Artist/Author: Diana Taylor | Reference: P2913 | ISBN: 978-0822359975 | Type: Publication

In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of the ‘performance’ uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.

Rosa Chillante: Mujeres y performance en México

Artist/Author: Mónica Mayer | Reference: P2772 | ISBN: 970-93849-0-2 | Type: Publication

A survey of performance history of women Mexican artists. Spanish language.

Presence-absence Polarity Destabilised

Artist/Author: Caroline Wake | Reference: A0601 | Type: Article

Review of Amelia Jones and Adrian Heathfield’s edited volume “Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History” (2012).
 

Performance Paper – The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow

Editor: Helen Pritchard, Caroline Mawdsley | Reference: P2059 | Type: Publication

Publication accompanying the homonymous symposium: a collaboration between Plymouth Arts Centre and artist Marina Abramovic to produce a performance event that explored the history and future of the artist’s work. Newspaper-style publication in large folder.

The Artist is Present

Artist/Author: Marina Abramovic | Reference: D1895 | Type: DVD

Feature-length documentary film following Marina Abramovic as she prepares for a major retrospective of her work, taking place at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Seven Easy Pieces

Artist/Author: Marina Abramović | Editor: Directed by Babette Mangolte | Reference: D1669 | Type: DVD

See also D0342 for still images, and P1002 essays and catalogue.

Franklin Furnace and the Spirit of the Avant-Garde: A History of the Future

Artist/Author: Toni Sant | Reference: P1644 | Type: Publication

A comprehensive history of this remarkable organisation from its conception to the present.

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