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If They Come in the Morning… - Voices of Resistance

Editor: Angela Y. Davis | Reference: P3640 | ISBN: 9781784787691 | Type: Publication

An account of Angela Davis’s incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United State.

Disobedient Theatre Alternative Ways to Inspire, Animate and Play

Artist/Author: Chris Johnston | Reference: P3421 | ISBN: 978-1350014541 | Type: Publication

Divided into two parts, `In the World’ and `In the Room’, the book presents a rounded picture of the possibilities of a `disobedient’ culture and includes many games and exercises for creative practitioners.

Riot Days

Artist/Author: Maria Alyokhina | Reference: P3450 | ISBN: 978-0241316429 | Type: Publication

From the activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in.

Creative Prison

Artist/Author: squint/opera | Reference: D2285 | Type: DVD

A film showing the imagined interior of a prison, sculptures by prisoners on themes of rehabilitation.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Amnesty Magazine issue 174

Editor: Maggie Paterson | Reference: P3314 | Type: Publication

Issue dedicated to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 2008.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Cells of Release

Artist/Author: Fiona Templeton | Reference: P3307 | ISBN: 978-0937804698 | Type: Publication

Documentation of the poetry installation at the abandoned panopticon Eastern State Penetentiary written on continuous paper over six weeks at the site with photos and descriptive material.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Pentagon Petal programme

Reference: P3243 | Type: Publication

Programme for the installation project by artist Fran Cottell and architect Marianne Mueller, reflecting on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground as the dream site for Jeremy Bentham's experimental panopticon, the real Millbank Penitentiary, a military parade ground and now university campus, outdoor gallery and thoroughfare to Tate Britain. 
 

Engaging Performance: Theatre as call and response

Artist/Author: Jan Cohen-Cruz | Reference: P2988 | ISBN: 978-0415472142 | Type: Publication

Presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine “socially engaged performance.” It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects.

Where Art Belongs

Artist/Author: Chris Kraus | Reference: P1916 | ISBN: 978-1-58435-098-9 | Type: Publication

Examination of the artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art.

Benevolent Asylum : An Eclipse of Historical Fiction

Artist/Author: Lily Hibberd | Reference: P1881 | ISBN: 0-9757307-3-8 | Type: Publication

Visual and textual context for the exhibition and Take Me In performance which took place at the Freemantle Arts Centre.