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Presence-Absence Polarity Destabilised

Artist/Author: Caroline Wake | Reference: A0492 | Type: Article

Article discussing the publication Perform, Repeat, Record by Amelia Jones and Adrian Heathfield. This edition can be found in the RealTime magazine file. perform repeat record is also available in the study room. Ref number: P1813

Space in Performance: Making Meaning in the Theatre

Artist/Author: Gay McAuley | Reference: P1756 | ISBN: 978-0-472-08769-3 | Type: Publication

Examines the way theatre buildings function to frame the performance event, the organisation of audience and practitioner spaces within the building, the nature of the stage and the modes of representation it facilitates, and the relationship between the real space of the theatre and the fictional places that are evoked.

Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook

Artist/Author: Alison Oddey | Reference: P1743 | ISBN: 978-0-415-04900-9 | Type: Publication

A practical handbook that combines a critical analysis of contemporary devised theatre practice with descriptions of selected companies, and suggestions for any group devising theatre from scratch.

Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory

Editor: Andre Lepecki | Reference: P1738 | ISBN: 0-8195-6612-8 | Type: Publication

Focuses on the historical, cultural and political contexts that inform choreographic and dance practices and critical readings of dance-in other words, how dance operates as critical discourse.

Interview with Shannon Jackson

Artist/Author: Christina Linden, Shannon Jackson | Reference: A0427 | Type: Article

Interview with Shannon Jackson, Christina Linden, Social Works: online article printed from www.artpractical.com

Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics

Artist/Author: Shannon Jackson | Reference: P1585 | Type: Publication

An interdisciplinary approach to the forms, goals and histories of innovative social practice in both contemporary performance and visual art.

This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).

Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity

Artist/Author: Shannon Jackson | Editor: Tracy C. Davis | Reference: P1539 | ISBN: 9780521656054 | Type: Publication

Considers the connection amongst a range of performance forms such as oratory, theatre, dance, and performance art and explores performance as both a humanistic and technical field of education. This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).

Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research

Artist/Author: various | Editor: Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms, C J W L Wee | Reference: P1484 | ISBN: 978-0-230-00845-8 | Type: Publication

A collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies.

After Criticism - New Responses to Art and Performance (Chinese Language version)

Artist/Author: Gavin Butt | Reference: P1427 | ISBN: 9787534422409 | Type: Publication

Chinese edition of Butt’s book addressing issues of the ‘performing’ of art’s histories; the consequences for criticism of embracing boredom, distraction and other ‘queer’ forms of (in)attention; and the importance of exploring writerly process in responding to aesthetic experience. Language: Chinese only

The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies edited by Tracy C Davis (review)

Artist/Author: Alan Read | Reference: A0276 | Type: Article

Contemporary Theatre Review, Volume 19, Issue 3 (2009), pp. 375-377