The article analyses discourses surrounding the cancellation of Brett Bailey’s performance by the Barbican in September 2014.
Special Issue; Volume 25, Issue 3.
An account of an entire year spent living provocatively. From successful campaigns against Royal Parks and multinationals, to arts and crafts with porn mags, from annoying estate agents, to raising cinema workers' wages, comedian and campaigner Mark Thomas stopped at nothing.
The artist’s account of being denied entry at the country of Bahrain’s border. Miscellaneous folder #4.
In this essay, Tania El Khoury considers performance through the lens of her own practice as a live artist and as a member of Dictaphone Group, a live events project El Khoury started with Abir Saksouk. What emerges is a perspective of a contemporary artist working within the frame of performance, and how one within this frame might define their own practice through experience. In Miscellaneous Articles Folder #4.
This paper investigates the synchronic and homologous connection between non-human and human swarming.
Regina Jose Galindo dencounces violence women and, more generally, the social, political and cultural violence of contemporary society.
Created in collaboration with Pussy Riot, this book links together the events leading up to and after the group’s arrest and the themes they fight for – feminism, LGBTQ rights, freedom of speech and the environment.
Review concerned with the politicisation of public spaces in the Arab territories where uprisings turn cities into the scenography of intervention.
An investigation of doubt, risk, and testimony through performance art process in relation to systems of legal justice
Commemorative Edition of Vaccum Days to mark the state funded funeral of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, available to download on the day of the funeral only, 17/04/2013.
Live art interventions by disabled artists in the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, May 2012
Nick Ahad reports on a 24-hour arts occupation in Leeds. In Miscellaneous Folder 4.
A compilation of personal stories that the artist had told in his performances over the previous decade.
Illuminates ways of devising more socially, economically, and ecologically just versions of now.
Documentation of the Opavivara collective performances: 2005 – 2011.
Investigation into collective and collaborative creative practice of marginalised artists of the art world. Reverend Billy Talent and the political economy of the art world. This article is referenced in the Platform Study Room Guide (P1820) and can be found in the Miscellaneous Articles 4 Binder.
Exploration of art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.
Living as Form grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a survey of more than 100 projects that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics.
Article asking whether art circulates beyond the sphere of the art world.
An anthology that explores the rise of activist public art that agitates for social change.
Brings together classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance.
Part manifesto and part reference guide: brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of artists and activists from around the world.
This article can be found in the Miscellaneous Articles 3 Binder and can also be found in The cultural Resistance Reader: P1894
Being Seen Being Heard, Symposium at Sacred: Keeping the Faith, festival at Chelsea Theatre, London, 24-28 November 2011.
This publication was written amid the action by UK students against the government cuts, and was intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements. UK, students, funding cuts, education, creative response, direct action, politics, protest. This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).
Documentation from Performance Matters, Performing Idea, Performance Lecture Archive; an interactive video archive housed at the Whitechapel Gallery between 2-9 October 2010.
A series of events held at East Street Arts.
Reflects the ways in which the practices of artists who work with Live Art have engaged with, represented, and problematised issues of disability in innovative and radical ways, and the ways in which Live Art has been, and continues to be, a potent platform for artists to explore notions of physicality, identity and representation.
series of articles in Versus Magazine and Disability Arts Magazine about Heaton and an installation work from 1991 that was resurrected as performance protest in response to Telethon 1994. includes Observer article about it. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529)
Find article in misc. folder 2
Intervention at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, about the lack of local live art in the curatorial vision of one of Australia’s foremost contemporary art institutions.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Analyses the dramatic works of modern German, American, English, French, and Spanish writers within their historical and cultural contexts.
Documentary footage of June 18th protests in London
featuring 14 artists performances and installation work
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
This item is part of the Study Room Guide: A Bi(bli)ography of Insurrectionary Imaginati by John Jordan (P0793)
To accompany D0701
Part of the Performing Action, Performing Thinking edition.
In Slovenian and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Part of the Performing Action, Performing Thinking edition.
In Slovenian and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Six of Tim Miller’s best known performances, documented, with scripts, “the sexual, spiritual, and political topography of his identity as a gay man…”
A book of stories, stories written by activists from the front lines of resistance against capitalism and economic globalization.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide: A Bi(bli)ography of Insurrectionary Imaginati by John Jordan (P0793) and the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).