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Arte para uma cidade sensível / Art for a sensitive city
The publication explores art created in public spaces in Brazil, since 2000. In Portuguese and English. Published under the Creative Commons licence.
Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance
Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, this is the first survey of immersive theories and practices for students, scholars and practitioners of contemporary performance. It includes interviews with immersive artists and examines key topics such as site-specific performance and immersive technologies.
Audience Participation in Theatre: Aesthetics of the Invitation
This book presents a theory of audience participation in the theatre, based on the importance of the moment of invitation and how an event changes character when such an invitation is made.
Ocaña, 1973-1983: Acciones, Actuaciones, Activismo
Devoted to the largely forgotten Spanish artist; published for the eponymous exhibition. In Spanish, Catalan, Basque and English.
Interval Breathing Small Displacements
An overview of Poro: Brazilian company engaged in poetic, ironic and political actions. In Portuguese and English.
Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents
A revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English.
Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS
This volume examines the ways gay men have used theatre and performance to intervene in the AIDS crisis. It discusses dramatic texts and public performances–from cabarets and candlelight vigils to full-scale Broadway productions that have shaped, and been shaped by, the history of AIDS in national, regional, and local contexts.
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
A collection of creative essays — a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the Fear of Diversity in America.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology
This book and the exhibition launched with it represent a powerful exploration in both image and text of the impact of the AIDS crisis. Different voices reveal the profound inadequacies in our attitudes to disease.
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
A look at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.
