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Love on Me

Artist/Author: Jon John | Digital Reference: EF5347 | Type: Digital File

Draws strength from conversations with the performance artist Ron Athey and readings from Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag.

Please note that Queen Mary University of London holds the entire archive of the late artist.

The 2 of Us

Artist/Author: Jon John | Digital Reference: EF5346 | Type: Digital File

A romantic exploration performance about love and human relationships.

Please note that Queen Mary University of London holds the entire archive of the late artist.

Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance

Artist/Author: Amber Jamilla Musser | Reference: P4027 | ISBN: 9781479830954 | Type: Publication

Works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art

Artist/Author: Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra | Reference: P4031 | ISBN: 9-781978-802025 | Type: Publication

What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art?  Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Staging the Audience: The Sydney Front

Artist/Author: The Sydney Front | Reference: D2308 | ISBN: 978-1-922007-28-5 | Type: Publication

Includes three DVDs: an verview of the company's philosophy, extended interview with the artists, and a resource pack. In the glass cabinet. 

No one should have seen this. The theatre of Via Negativa, 2002 - 2011

Editor: Bojan Jablanovec | Reference: P3618 | ISBN: 9789616572309 | Type: Publication

A chronological review of a decade of endeavours by one of the most astute Slovenian projects of contemporary performing arts. The publication with extensive visual material and excerpts from texts documents 29 performances accompanied by Dr Blaž Lukan’s essay Erasing the Audience which analyses the company’s performing strategies.

Solitary Pleasures

Editor: Marquard Smith | Reference: P3547 | ISBN: 978-0-9935611-6-0 | Type: Publication

Created to accompany the Solitary Pleasures exhibition at the Freud Museum, London in Spring 2018, this publication is a secret museum, a treasure trove of insightful and delightful drawings, sculptures, photographs, video stills, artefacts, performative gestures, and ephemera – as well as specially commissioned texts – on a subject at the heart of Freudian and post-Freudian sexuality, eroticism, and desire: masturbation.

“Piss-Takes”, Tongue-in Cheek Humour and Contemporary Feminist Performance Art

Artist/Author: Jacki Willson | Editor: Katy Deepwell | Reference: A0702 | Type: Article

The article explores the way in which humour is being used by contemporary women performance artists to state the obvious.

The English Channel

Artist/Author: Liz Aggiss | Digital Reference: EF5211 | Type: Digital File

This story of a career forged in the heady waters of performance art and dance-film depicts Aggiss resuscitating herself back into the on-stage limelight. In the process, she becomes an unwitting channel for wilful women and forgotten archives; a conduit for hidden histories and buried truths. 

Clips; 4:44.