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Tasteless, Crude, and Politically Progressive
On Christoph Schlingensief, solo exhibition at MoMA S1, March-August 2014.
Black Performance Theory
Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Black Sun
Edited in conversation with Krist Gruijthuijsen, the director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, to accompany the exhibitions ‘David Wojnarowicz Photography & Film 1978–1992’, ‘Reza Abdoh’, and ‘TIES, TALES AND TRACES: Dedicated to Frank Wagner, Independent Curator (1958–2016)’.
None of Us is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition
Charts artist and performer Emma Frankland's gender transition against a shifting social and political landscape, while grappling with the systematic erasure of trans history.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
From Brass Bands to Buskers: Street Music in the UK
Report about the Arts and Humanities Resarch Council funded prject.
We are the Market!: The Commercial City Centre as the Final Commonplace
Calls out to freedom in the capitalist commons, within the cultural production of the high street.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Elastic City: Prompts for Participatory Walks
Includes instructions from more than 35 artists’ walks along with a section that features the insights and philosophy of Elastic City Founder who spent 14 years presenting and refining walks. The section, titled ‘Creating Your Own Walk,’ covers conceptual, narrative and logistical concerns, how to encourage participation and how to best promote this work.
Theatre and Cancer
Explores representations of cancer in fictional worlds and autobiographical performances while also highlighting work that reimagines and reinvigorates the genre of ‘Cancer Performance’.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Four Legs Good
A revival of medieval animal trials featuring Snoopy the Jack Russell terrier in court for sheep worrying.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
The Bodies That Remain
A collection of texts and images on the bodies of artists and writers who battled with the frustration of their own physicality and whose work reckoned with these limitations and continued beyond them.
