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The Emancipated Spectator

Artist/Author: Jacques Ranciere | Reference: P1590 | ISBN: 978-1-84467-343-8 | Type: Publication

Asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, Rancière goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?

The Mirror of Life and Death

Artist/Author: Laurence J. Bendit | Reference: P1588 | Type: Publication

This book suggests ‘that the basis of life is in timeless and universal Being, which becomes projected for evolutionary purposes into the space-time world of existence’.

Performing Idea: Other Durations

Artist/Author: Lara Shalson, Bojana Kunst, Boyan Manchev | Reference: D2104 | Type: DVD

Performance Matters, Performing Idea – Other Durations5th October 3:00-7:30pmToynbee StudiosWith: Janine Antoni, Matthew Goulish, Bojana Kunst, Boyan Manchev, Fred Moten and Lara ShalsonTime in Western Cultures continues to accelerate and a slower unregulated life is seemingly nowhere to be found. Contemporary art has seen a resurgence of performances of long and short durations and a re-valuation of historical works of duration. Artists are increasingly playing with, inhabiting and transforming the time of the artwork. Speakers will address questions of how we can now think of the time of performance? What are the relations between performance, time and cultural value? How is performance reconfiguring and othering our understandings and experiences of time?

Deliberation

Artist/Author: Roland Barthes | Reference: A0286 | Type: Article

Find article in misc. folder 2. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433)

Postmodernism, The Key Figures

Editor: Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli | Reference: P1272 | ISBN: 0-631-21797-5 | Type: Publication

This book is a kind donation by Natasha Davis. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529)

Babylon Europe - Boundless Languages International Conference Proceedings

Artist/Author: Various | Reference: P1236 | Type: Publication

Publication documenting the first public meeting of the institutions that engendered the ENPARTS project (European Network of Performing Arts).

The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema

Artist/Author: Slavoj Zizek | Reference: D0869 | Type: DVD

A film about cinema itself presented by Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek

Art for All? Their Policies and Our Culture

Editor: Mark Wallinger and Mary Warnock | Reference: P0225 | ISBN: 978-0953977208 | Type: Publication

A large format and graphically bold publication that goes to the very heart of contemporary debate about the responsibility and function of the arts and of artists in society today.

Platform Study Room Guide (P1820). This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313) and the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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