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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

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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

Mounting
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

Jack Smith’s Rehearsals for the Destruction of Atlantis: ‘Exotic’ Ritual and Apocalyptic Tone
Artist/Author: Dominic Johnson | Reference: A0311 | Type: Article

Engaging a series of critical models, this article examines the place of the ‘exotic’ in thinking about sexual and racial difference, as a means of thinking difficult or volatile modes of cultural practice. As such, it stages a confrontation between ‘exotic ritual’ and ‘apocalyptic tone’, to challenge conventions about scholarly practice and find new ways of examining uncomfortable spaces and modes of working.

AIDS Alan Read apocalypse Atlantis avant-garde Bachelard communal relations death experimental theatre gay intervention Jack Halberstam Jack Smith Jacobs kitsch laughter Lee Edelman lesbian Nan Goldin ostracism performance art political queer theory race ritual Roszak sexuality spatiality street intervention uncanny Vidler

Extravagant Bodies
Artist/Author: various, Ivana Ivkovic, Colin Barnes, Lois Keidan, Alison Lapper, Juliet Robson, Petra Kuppers, Jeremy Alliger, Vojin Peric, Jurj Krpan, Andrej J. Jug, Andreja Bartolac, Bojana Kunst, | Editor: Kontejner | Reference: D1264 | Digital Reference: ED1264 | Type: Digital File

This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529)

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Dinner With America
Artist/Author: Rajni Shah | Reference: D1450 | Type: DVD

The second in a trilogy of performances addressing the complexities of cultural identity in the 21st century.

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La Pocha Nostra: Creating Alternative Artistic Networks
Artist/Author: Lorena Rivero de Beer | Reference: A0247 | Type: Article

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chicano Guillermo Gómez-Peña marginal methodology Mexican minority political protest radical ritual

Tupada Revolt
Reference: P1224 | Type: Publication

Programme of TAMA ’08, the Tupada Action and Media Art Fifth International Action Art Event titled TUPADA REVOLT (April 25, 28,29 2008) with international performance events, creating connections with local and foreign artists in the spirit of meaningful cultural and information exchange, and melding concepts, directions and personalities together to create an independent ground for art expressing concerns

action art political social forum

In the Place of Passing
Artist/Author: Mark Ward | Reference: P1147 | ISBN: 978-0-9557176-0-4 | Type: Publication

On how performance relates to the global contemporary situation.

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