Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow’s project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art’s participatory strategies.
Exploring performance and politics in the post-revolutionary state, Dangerous Moves presents a fascinating survey of contemporary life and culture in Cuba through some of its most daring and experimental artists.
Drawing on two decades of interventions in politics and culture, The School of Public Life records the author’s efforts to revive and rethink public space from Los Angeles to Berlin and beyond.
Poet and painter Adrian Henri gives an account of the origins of ‘total art’ followed by fully documented chapters on the American environmental tradition of Kaprow, Oldenburgh, Warhol, Kienholz and many others.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Audio CD of recordings celebrating The Final Academy and featuring the contributions of Joe Ambrose, ElectroRev, John Balance, De Straatslijper, Testing Vault & The Palgue Doctors for a total of 8 tracks. For related anthology and documentation see REF P2739.
An anthology celebrating The Final Academy and featuring the contributions of Joe Ambrose, Bee, Michael Butterworth & John Coulthart, Fritz Catlin, Emma Doeve, Paul A Green, Phil Hine, Spencer Kansa, Cabell McLean, John May, Jack Sergeant, John Balance, and unpublished interviews with William S. Burroughs and Terry Wilson. For related audio CD see REF D2190.
Text for a work originally performed in August 1988 as “The Return of the Horse to the Riding School” in the Manege – Saint Petersburg’s Central Exhibition Hall which was once the Imperial Riding School – during the Second Festival of Experimental Art and Performance
Catalogue of exhibition focused on Vicuña’s early paintings and the objects and book-works that she produced in London in the 1970s. With an introductory essay by Dawn Ades.
The author discusses with Laurie Anderson her musical collaboration with Kronos Quartet featured in the Adelaide Festival 2013.
A double CD of selected items and several hour-long radio broadcasts produced and curated by Mel Brimfield, who spent a year and a half collecting, commissioning and honing submissions for 24 hours' worth of content.