A portrait of the artist and musician Z'EV, known for his punk era scrap metal music – how his music changed and grew and how his personal journey led him to the margins of art and the depths of heart.
Commissioned by the Institute for Contemporary Arts in 1995, The Story of M is a moving tribute to the life and death of the artist’s white mother mother who raised her mixed-race children in the face of frequent racism 1960s but never let them forget they were of African descent and to be proud of their heritages.
Contains performance programme, performance texts and 3 CDs/DVDs, which include still images, a 6 minute edit and video of the full performance.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
A collection of three life performance texts by the OBIE Award winning playwright. Includes: JARMAN (all this maddening beauty), Carthage/Cartagena, The Orphan Sea and essays.
The first sustained publication on the artist and writer of Scottish and Ghanaian heritage who lived and worked in Britain. Originally accompanied the exhibition, Maud Sulter: Passion at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow, 25 April – 21 June 2015.
Includes exhibition programme from Maud Sulter: Syrcas at Autograph ABP in London, 15 January – 2 April 2016.
Editor Chon A. Noriega collects ephemera gathered from Gamboa’s three-decade-long dadaistic career. The book includes interviews with artists, poetry, fiction, collaged images, documentation of public and staged performances, photographic portraits of Chicano men, and political writings, including an essay on public schools reflecting his son’s first year in kindergarten.
Catalogue for the 2014 Flat Time House exhibition, which comprised of elements of the many modes of Reedy’s production across decades, including video and audio works unseen and unheard since the 1970s and 80s.
A monograph documenting the artist's life and work; includes photographs which have never before been reproduced, a selection of his short texts and poems, which reflect his feelings on the open question of the relationship between art and life, and two newly commissioned essays by Guy Brett and Nick Sawyer.
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
The interview aruges for visibility of Reedy as a force of innovation where she is wrongly, and yet expectedly, absent from mainstram cultural institutions.
Published in France in 1965, the book reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. More than forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early-twentieth century avant-garde. Translated by Sharmila Ganguly.