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Birthmark Exhibition Guide
Birthmark – a live unsanctioned performance was performed in the 1840s gallery of ‘A BP Walk Through British Art’ at Tate Britain on the 28th November, 2015, the start of the Paris climate talks.
Trykksak (1 and 2)
Alt Går Bra sets out to research the intersections between art and politics through exhibits and performances, printed publications and invited guests. Trykksak includes a selection of texts, poems, graphics, artwork, speaches etc.
The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
The book explores Weaver’s collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot.
A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance.
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self- objectification, transforming themselves into art objects.
Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism
This book examines the recent changes in the labour of an artist and addresses them from the perspective of performance.
Alternatives Within the Mainstream British Black and Asian Theatres
Six part anthology with chapters on the work of the Black Theatre Forum and the histories of Black and Asian theatres, histories of the major theatre companies, a document of the Sikh diaspora’s uproar over Behzti and issues of censorship, a critical interrogation of several dramatists and autobiographical essays by theatremakers.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Framing Feminism
An introduction to the major events and debated in the early years of feminist art practice. An extensive collection of articles, as well as broadsheets printed in facsimile, illustrate the history and diversity of arguably the most important intervention in modern art.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Exploding Galaxies: The Art of David Medalla
A book on the multi-disciplinary and experimental practice of artist David Medalla, who was born in the Philippines. Based in London since the 1960s, he has made an effort to remain independent of the art market and the institutional structure. Artist biography, bibliography and illustrated documentation of works included.
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Arendt provides a historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism. The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and the rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it.
