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Artist/Author: Chris Salter | ISBN: 978-0-262-19588-1 | Type: Publication

Exploration of technology’s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

architecture body body art borders composition dance digital art economy electronics experimental festivals history interactive mechanical art media art music new media participatory performance Peter Sellars political robotic art scenography Sergei Diaghilev social sound technology theatre urban spaces video visual art

Being an Artist in Post Fordist Times
Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Paul de Bruyne and Pascal Gielen | Reference: P1917 | ISBN: 978-90-5662-711-9 | Type: Publication

Text concerning the place and function of arts in society.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker China choreographer criticism cynicism dance ecology economy environment impotence Italy labour Matthew Herbert Michelangelo Pistoletto money movement nihilism Pascal Gielen Paul de Bruyne performance Pippo Delbono political power Sang Jijia socially engaged theatre theory Thierry De Cordier utopia Willy Tsao

The Cultural Resistance Reader
Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Stephen Duncombe | Reference: P1894 | ISBN: 978-1-85984-379-6 | Type: Publication

Brings together classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance.

Abbie Hoffman activism activists anarchy Antonio Gramsci Bertolt Brecht C.L.R. James Christopher Hill criticism culture-jam Dick Hebdige direct action environment Eric Hobsbawm ethics feminism feminist gender Hakim Bey history human rights intervention Janice Radway Karl Marx lesbian Mahatma Gandhi Matthew Arnold Mikhail Bakhtin money new media political popular culture protest Raymond Williams riot grrrl Robin Kelley sexuality site specific socially engaged Stuart Hall subculture subvert technology Theodor Adorno theory Tom Frank Virginia Woolf Walter Benjamin women

Glorious Catastrophe : Jack Smith, performance and visual culture
Artist/Author: Dominic Johnson | Reference: P1902 | ISBN: 978-0-7190-8299-3 | Type: Publication

Detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989.

1960s AIDS Alan Read America Atlantis avant-garde Bachelard cultural criticism death experimental experimental theatre film gay history impromptu intervention Jack Halberstam Jack Smith Jacobs kitsch Lee Edelman lesbian Nan Goldin New York ostracism performance political queer theory Roszak sexuality street intervention Vidler visual art writing

Beautiful Trouble
Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Andrew Boyd with David Oswald Mitchell | Reference: P1896 | ISBN: 978-1-935938-57-7 | Type: Publication

Part manifesto and part reference guide: brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of artists and activists from around the world.

activism activists Agit-Pop Alliance of Community Trainers anarchy Beyond the Choir Code Pink criticism culture-jam direct action environment ethics history human rights intervention L. M. Bogad money new media Nonviolence International performance political Principles protest site specific SmartMeme socially engaged subculture subvert tactics technology The Center for Artistic Activism The Other 98% The Ruckus Society The Yes Men theories theory Waging Nonviolence Yes Labs

Elmgreen & Dragset: Performances 1995-2011
Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Anita Iannacchione | Reference: P1885 | ISBN: 978-3-86335-099-4 | Type: Publication

Showcases 43 performances and live works by Danish-Norwegian artist duo, marking the first time the artists’ practice is considered in depth from a performance perspective.

Aaron Betsky Andrea Kroksnes architecture camp collaborative Denmark durational Ina Blom installation Jens Hoffmann Lars Bang Larsen live art Norway Performa 11 performance performative political RoseLee Goldberg sculpture Shannon Jackson social subversive theatre theatrical

Legacies of Tactical Media
Artist/Author: Eric Kluitenberg | Editor: Greet Lovink and Sabine Niederer | Reference: P1866 | ISBN: 978-90-816021-8-1 | Type: Publication

Tactical Media employ the ‘tactics of the weak’ to operate on the terrain of strategic power by means of ‘any media necessary’, this notebook traces the legacies of tactical media to begin creating these hybrid cartographies

activism anti-austerity direct action money movement new media Occupy political social media social networking technology

Pedestrian Congestion Charging
Artist/Author: Richard Dedomenici | Digital Reference: DB0068 | Type: Digital File

Project documentation.

activism human rights Pedestrian Congestion Charging political Richard DeDomenici site specific socially engaged surveillance transport UK

Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance
Artist/Author: Diane Torr and Stephen Bottoms | Reference: P1533 | ISBN: 978-0472051021 | Type: Publication
1980s 1990s aesthetic cross-dressing disguise drag drag king feminine gender Male Roles masculine performance personal political role play sex theory trans

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Artist/Author: Rose English, Jacky Lansley, and Sally Potter | Reference: P0256 | Type: Publication

A short book about the discussion between three women of being artists under patrichal capitalism. Letter from Rose English in the front.

This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

capitalism feminism patriarchy photography political

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