Forty years since the publication of Naseem Khan’s seminal report The Arts Britain Ignores, how much has changed?
Tells the story of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted longform post to today’s digital newsletters and social media threads.
Captured during a weekend-long workshop held in Glasgow as part of DIY16.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
A collection of case studies from Live Art UK, the publication responds to the recent successes of Live Art and highlights those artists, projects and initiatives which are re-politicising and re-energising our arts spaces, sharing radical works and ideas with a public who are themselves being forced to do more with less.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Delves into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered “doors”—entrances to visibility and recognition—that are actually “traps,” accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
. An introduction to performance in the territory of art: far from proposing a linear history, the volume offers a series of thematic and transversal approaches to performance.
In Spanish.
A toolkit with a mission to look to the future: to support long-term change across the arts sector by sharing knowledge, providing expert support, and encouraging take-up of an intersectional approach to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Part of The Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Examines the embodiment of pain in Máiréad Delaney’s performance.
Part of The Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary.
Asks whether, and how, it is possible to re-appropriate pornography and think through it critically and creatively for a project of liberation.
Examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism.
Draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Engages the virtually invisible subject of older women in western culture.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Brings the fields of performance studies and trauma studies together in conversation where they inform crucial themes such as trauma, testimony, witness, and spectatorship.
An important addition to the current body of scholarly material on contemporary performance and theatre; it provides both a detailed focus on a number of important performance works as well as developing a framework for the interpretation of contemporary performance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear.
A Troubles Archive Essay. Includes the programme for Performance Art + Northern Ireland, exhibition at the Golden Thread Gallery (13/8/2015 – 30/9/2015)
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, the book looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance, pedagogy, identity and culture.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968, Solanas' text is reconsidered in Avital Ronell's introduction, “Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas”.
Explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres.
Illuminates the relationship between philosophy and experimental choreographic practice today in the works of leading European choreographers.
A collection of 14 essays by international scholars and practitioners from across the disciplines of Philosophy, Literature and Theatre and Performance Studies, addressing the nature of the relationship between philosophy and performance.
Nigel Spivey takes on one of the greatest taboos in Western culture in this original work of cultural history: why is so much pain depicted in the art of the West?
Explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a collection of critical writings and original artworks,
The contributors to this book, writing from a variety of subject disciplines and interests, explore a range of the uses of autobiography from the nineteenth-century to the present day, and from Africa, USA, the Middle East, France, New Zealand, as well as Britain.
The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent
A Culture Change Guide.
A Culture Change Guide.
A Culture Change Guide.
A Culture Change Guide.
A Culture Change Guide.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
Part of Culture Change Guide: How to find and grow diverse talent.
Publicaition in honor of the 10th anniversary of FemLink-Art.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
How do disabled people experience theatre, as both audience members and performers? How has the institution of theatre responded to disability over time? How can we create new spaces for performance and attend to different communities’ forms of expression?
From the Dance and Politics edition. In Slovenian and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition by Yongsoon Min ;13 August to 12 September 2004 at the SSamzie Space Galleries. In English and Korean.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Zine from the long term project led by Victoria Sin featuring artists using speculative fiction as a productive medium for intersectional queer experience.
Explores the processes through which specific populations are figured as 'revolting' as well as the practices through which these populations 'revolt' against their subjectification.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)
A catalogue of one of the most important contemporary Roma artists: a comprehensive overview of her oeuvre and a concise insight into the complex questions of the life of ethnic minorities. In Slovenian, Roma and English.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).