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).
Presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres. Revised and Enlarged Edition
Celebrates whales in verse and photographs, and in an anthology of prose writings from the worlds of science and literature.
A manifesto for the active and creative pedestrian – envisioning a walking that is neither a functional necessity (to shops, to work) nor a passive appreciation of (or complaint about) the urban environment.
Examines what it might mean to make theatre beyond the human.
Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice.
Explores Englishness, pseudo public space and what it is to be considered an unwelcome migratory visitor in contemporary Britain through the eyes of a particularly pesky Muscovy duck.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Published on the occasion of the Idit Elia Natham exhibition at Standpoint Gallery, London. 16 January – 14 February 2015.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Part of Know How: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and working with older individuals and communities (P3140).
Asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of ‘culture’ in today’s intercultural world.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The Fevered Sleep project brings together adult, male professional contemporary dancers, and girls who dance for fun. This publication includes pieces by people who live and work in each city the project is recreated in. It is a collection of creative writing on the themes of the project, such as love, empathy and trust.
Kaprow’s sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself is brought into focus in this newly expanded collection of his most significant writings.
Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theatre, on popular culture, and on paratheatrical practices, the book investigates theatrical engagement with aging from the Greek chorus to Reminiscence Theatre.
Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)
A journal of a forty something mother/artist with two sons aged 5 and 13.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
This video for camera was made at home with the artist's one year old son: he is invited, or given reason, to interact with household, domestic, materials – in isolation and removed from some context.
12 minutes.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
This article considers a constellation of works the artist Kira O’Reilly has created in residencies in biology laboratories over the past several years.
This first volume of ‘Performance Art’ is the personal story of Jeff Nuttall’s life in the arts, especially in performance work: amusing, polemical and controversial.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Essays on live art in galleries.
A record of some of the most important performative ideas and embodied interventions that have shaped queer culture and theatre and performance practice in Ireland in recent times, principally in the years following the decriminalization of homosexuality in. 1993, up.
Gathers together Fusco’s finest writings since 1995 and includes critical essays by Jean Fisher and Caroline Vercoe that interpret her work.
Contains an audio CD
A play without actors. Six 20th Century sculptures find themselves trapped on a theatre stage. With text by Tim Etchells. Small size booklet in A4 folder.
Analyses the dramatic works of modern German, American, English, French, and Spanish writers within their historical and cultural contexts.
Baktruppen is a group of Norwegian artists who started off in 1986 as a theatre project
Shelved in Miscellaneous Journals section.
Archive materials for Neil Thomas and David Wells’ production Mantalk, including play script.
Archive materials including a script by Deborah Levy entitled The Inner Voice: I Am Big. There is a corresponding DVD.
Live footage of Dickie Beau performing October 27th, 2011. Filmed by the British Library, Joao Florencio, and Joe E. Jeffreys.