A collection of historical essays, critical papers, case studies, interviews, and comments from scholars and practitioners that shed new light on the field of collaborative art.
Report about the Arts and Humanities Resarch Council funded prject.
The artist shares a living space with Deliah the pig for 72 hours. Film Credit: Rob La Frenais
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
Illuminates the shift in approaches to the uses of theatre and performance technology in the past twenty-five years and develops an account of new media dramaturgy (NMD), an approach to theatre informed by what the technology itself seems to want to say.
A publication documenting the first 40 years of Artsadmin.
How do artists respond to the question of collective survival in the face of crisis? Can writing articulate, subvert and test the ever-present question of the future in modes that are nonlinear, affective and even choreographic? What are our hopes, fears and desires?
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism.
Issue 4 featuring: Emma-cecilia Ajanki, Channing Tatum, Figs In Wigs, Igor & Moreno, Rowland Hill, Rukeya, Samir Kennedy, Theo Clinkard, Leah Marojevic, Trajal Harell, Ultimate Dancer, Robbie Thomson, Augusto Corrieri, Rowland Hill, Marica Innocente, Maartje Nevejan
Project publication: on festival collaboration and festival criticism.
Includes a document with translations and the following performances:
1. En un fist fast
2. La caida del ser
3. Vigilia sex
4. Varios perfos expo
5. De docta ignor lombrices
6. De docta ignor desentarrarme
7. Pepafono 3 versiones
8. Ponme la mano aquí macorina
9. Sea anemone and the hermit crab
10. Embajadora de la buena voluntad
11. ¡Ah no!
12. Violence and tenderness
13. Cagandola a diestra y siniestra
14. Sweet sixteen
15. Times goes by and I can not forget you
A study of post-millennial solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
SPILL programme; 25 October – 4 November, 2018, Ipswich
After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
This front line queer theatre tells first hand stories of how it is to be LGBT/Queer in Serbia and reveals the underlying issues of war, closed borders, neofascism and a country in the process of change.
In English and Serbian.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Accompanies the performance and exhibition Four Legs Good, Compass Festival, 17-25 November 2018.
First catalogue of work by London based artist Stefan Gec.
This volume, which originally appeared as a special issue of The Drama Review, looks at puppets, masks, and other performing objects from a broad range of perspectives.
Draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Art Gallery of York University, September 6 – October 1, 1989.
Publication celebrating the 20th anniversary of the festival of emerging practices. In French.
Engages the virtually invisible subject of older women in western culture.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
A frenzied meditation on theatrical obsession, a festive overture of histrionic suffering and flapping genitalia. In the glass cabinet.
Doon Mackichan wanders, falls, swims and loiters with a few of the women making walking art. 8 October 2018.
A collection of postcards with artist photos taken by Revell.
Pulls together rich elements of music, physical space, visual arts, text and movement; contemplates violence, without relying on sensational anecdote.
A zine drawing together reflection by artists participating in the Metal project on the themes of the ‘othered’ body and non-binary identities.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Second issue of the journal devoted to reinventing the life of plays on the page.
Passion takes up the theme of sacrifice that plays through all the work of the company, leading its audience into a re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross.
In the glass cabinet.
The audience mingle with the performers on the performance floor, which might be a kind of soirée or Don Giovanni’s ball. In the glass cabinet.
Includes three DVDs: an verview of the company's philosophy, extended interview with the artists, and a resource pack. In the glass cabinet.
Exhibition catalogue. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, June-July 1994; Institute of Modern Art, August 1994, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, November-December 1995, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, February-March 1995, ACCA, April May 1995.
Against the background of the disembodied voice a visceral and sado-masochistic exchange between bodies makes voyeurs of its audience. In the glass cabinet.
First issue of the journal devoted to reinventing the life of plays on the page.
A single row of audience members around the edge of a performance space A curtain sometimes running across it cutting the space (and the audience’s view) in two. In glass cabinet.
Includes: Theatre / Archaeology, The script’s not the thing, Welsh Heterotopias, and an interview with Geraldine Cousin
A detailed look at the extensive 14-18 NOW programme, which was set up to bring a creative response to the centenary of the First World War.
Third issue of the journal devoted to reinventing the life of plays on the page.
WUK publication introducing programme shown between March and June 2019. In German and English.
The pages of Emergency INDEX are open to all who work with performance. In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. Vol. 7 presents 260 works from 51 countries performed during 2017, documented in the words of their creators.
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Fourt issue of the journal devoted to reinventing the life of plays on the page.
Takes performance studies in exciting new directions, exploring the ways in which ethics can be used to understand the complex questions facing contemporary spectators.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
The audience is divided. Those who can afford it are escorted to their private viewing area, to be served champagne and smoked salmon throughout the show. The rest risk the edges of the performance space, clad only in black lingerie. In the glass cabinet.
Presents images of a theatre struggling to move beyond the exchange of desires, beyond even the carnal itself. The performers attempt to break the endless cycle of impersonation and to submit themselves to the supreme gaze. In the glass cabinet.
Drawings, designs and sketches for Kantor's performance 'Let the Artists Die'.
Critical analyses of cultural spectacle and social identity by eighteen major Australian scholars and practitioners.
Sheds light on a range of practices in the area of contemporary performance in Australia.
Captures the excitement of a key period in the emergence of postdramatic theatre in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s.
Examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)