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Marina Abramović: Live Culture Talk

Artist/Author: Marina Abramović | Digital Reference: EF5098 | Type: Digital File

For over 20 years Marina Abramović has collected materials from film, dance, theatre, music, rituals and performance. For her lecture at Live Culture she wound through a personal visual archive of performance related materials focused around the performing body, its mental and physical limits.This documentation has since been presented with the permission of the artist as part of the Performance Matters, Performing Idea, Performance Lecture Archive; an interactive video archive housed at the Whitechapel Gallery between 2-9 October 2010. The archive looked at examples of the performance lecture as a form of artistic and critical expression and its potential to address a broad range of cultural issues and philosophical ideas.

Performance Matters – Walid Raad and Irit Rogoff

Artist/Author: Walid Raad and Irit Rogoff | Reference: D1920 | Type: DVD

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of the “Performance Matters” events, 30 April 2010. An in-conversation between artist Walid Raad and theorist Irit Rogoff around issues of duration, transmission, materiality and process. Also see ref. D1920-3 and D1316-D1319.

Performance Matters – Ella Jean Finer: A Play for Offstage Voices

Artist/Author: Ella Jean Finer | Reference: D1921 | Type: DVD

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of the “Performance Matters” events, 30 April 2010. A Play For Offstage Voices is a score composed entirely of lines written to be spoken from off stage. Voices authored by well-known writers to call, shout, cry and exclaim from somewhere, above and within have been collected and choreographed into an ‘event score’ in which voices such as Beckett’s V, Lorca’s Voz and Stoppard’s voice (in the darkness) encounter each other in the marked off space they share. Also see ref. D1920; D1922-3 and D1316-D1319.

Performance Matters – Terry O’Connor: Response on Duration

Artist/Author: Terry O'Connor | Reference: D1922 | Type: DVD

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of the “Performance Matters” events, 30 April 2010. Terry O’Connor responds to the theme of ‘duration’. with Adrian Heathfield. Also see ref. D1920-1; D1923 and D1316-D1319.

Performance Matters – Lois Weaver: Response on Process.

Artist/Author: Lois Weaver | Reference: D1923 | Type: DVD

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of the “Performance Matters” events, 30 April 2010. Lois Weaver responds to the theme of ‘process’. with Adrian Heathfield. Also see ref. D1920-3 and D1316-D1319.

Writing Not Yet Thought: Helen Cixous in conversation with Adrian Heathfield

Artist/Author: Helene Cixous, Adrian Heathfield | Editor: Hugo Glendinning | Reference: D1667 | ISBN: 978-0-9570149-0-9 | Type: DVD

First screened at Performing Idea, October 2010, as part of the Performance Matters programme. Includes a transcript.

Performance Lecture Archive: The Last Performance (A Lecture)

Artist/Author: Jerome Bel | Reference: D1552 | Type: DVD

Bel narrates his own development from ten years as a dancer in the 1980s, to a sabbatical in the early ’90s spent reading poststructuralist theory, to his present-day status as a leading proponent of European conceptual dance

This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)