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Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance: Inside/Outside Europe

Editor: Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager | Reference: P3039 | ISBN: 978-1137379368 | Type: Publication

This engaging study examines the issue of crisis in European performance since the collapse of global financial markets in 2008. The book’s chapters examine diverse performances of crisis primarily in three cities with a loaded past and present for Europe, as idea and geopolitical reality: London, Athens and Berlin.

Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments

Editor: Amber E. Kinser, Kryn Freehling-Burton, Terri Hawkes | Reference: P3033 | ISBN: 978-1927335925 | Type: Publication

Highlighting mothers’ lived experiences, this collection examines mothers’ creativity and agency as they perform in everyday life: in mothering, in activism, and in the arts.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

Artist/Author: Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson | Reference: P3024 | ISBN: 978-0822355038 | Type: Publication

Mezzadra and Neilson explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various geographical scales, illustrating their theoretical arguments with illuminating case studies drawn from Europe, Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, and elsewhere.

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Artist/Author: Elena Marchevska | Reference: D2222 | Type: DVD

An in-depth research on the theme of borders and motherhood.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

Public 53: Mega-Event Cities

Editor: Peter Dickinson, Kirsty Johnston, and Keren Zaiontz | Reference: P2996 | ISBN: 0845-4450 | Type: Publication

Leading scholars, artists, and activists examine the role of the arts in articulating the social agendas of urban mega-events like Olympic Games and World Expos.

 

Social Art Map

Editor: Phoebe Davies and Sam Trotman | Reference: P3000 | Type: Publication

Made for Out of the Ordinary Places (OOTO Places), an Ideas Test programme working in four areas of North Kent where commissioned artists created projects shaped by people and place. Developed to support more people to get involved in the arts, four new projects took place in Iwade, Sittingbourne, Strood and the Isle of Grain. OOTO Places explores how local residents and artists can co-create new and experimental work that reimagines and challenges perceptions of place and in turn raises wider social and political questions.

Collected Works for Performance

Artist/Author: Hannah Nicklin | Reference: P2986 | ISBN: 978-1783197361 | Type: Publication

Inckudes: A Conversation With My Father, Songs for Breaking Britain, Equations for a Moving Body.

Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance

Artist/Author: Andre Lepecki | Reference: P2985 | ISBN: 978-1138907713 | Type: Publication

Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, examining this relationship through five ‘singularities’ in contemporary dance: thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity.

Stuart Brisley: Performing the Political Body and Eating Shit

Artist/Author: Michael Newman | Reference: P2994 | ISBN: 978-0-9575299-2-2 | Type: Publication

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Stuart Brisley: Headwinds, MAC Belfast, 30 January-26 April 2015.

Manual For Possible Projects On The Horizon

Editor: drawing shed | Reference: P2743 | Type: Publication

Documentation from the event which invites participants to talk openly about ideas of ‘social responsibility’ in regards to collaborative making and to collectively question the role of contemporary artists within opposing cultures of resilience, resistance and regeneration.

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