Skip to main content

Catalogue > By Keyword > representation

111 results | Page 3 of 12

Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices
Editor: Adesola Akinleye | Reference: P3775 | ISBN: 978-3-319-70313-8 | Type: Publication

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).

A'Keitha Carey African diaspora Anita Gonzalez Beverley Glean blackness body British Britishness Caribfunk Chikukwango Cuxima-Zwa Christy Adair criticism decolonising diaspora ethics Ethiopia feminism gender H Patten Helen Kindred history Hopal Romans Jamaica Jane Carr Jazz Kokuma Lion King Namron politics race racism Ramsay Burt Ras Mikey Courtney representation Rosie Lehan Sandie Bourne Sandra Golding Sarahleigh Castelyn Thea Barnes Tia-Monique Uzor UK youth dance

Performance Art and the Conflict in Northern Ireland: A Troubles Archive Essay
Artist/Author: Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes with Karine Talec | Reference: P3779 | Type: Publication

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).

activism Alastair MacLennan André Stitt Arts Council of Northern Ireland Bbeyond Brian Connolly Dan Shipsides history Ireland performance art politics representation Sandra Johnston Sinead Breathnach-Cashel Sinéad O’Donnell UK

SCUM Manifesto
Artist/Author: Valerie Solanas | Reference: P3746 | ISBN: 9781859845530 | Type: Publication

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”.

activism Aileen Wuornos Andy Warhol Antigone Avital Ronell Excitable Speech feminism feminist art gender Jacques Derrida Judith Butler Lizzie Borden Lorenna Bobbit Medea Medusa mental health Nietzsche patriarchy politics representation The Ends of Man Ubermensch women

Across the Art/Life Divide: Performance, Subjectivity, and Social Practice in Contemporary Art
Artist/Author: Martin Patrick | Reference: P3591 | ISBN: 978-1783208548 | Type: Publication

Explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres.

Alison Knowles appropriation authenticity authorship curating Dan Peterman Dave Chappelle democratisation Dick Higgins everyday Experimental Station Gramsci Monument Gregory Sholette identity Kallio Kunstahlle Our Literal Speed performance representation Richard Pryor self SHOW 7 sketch Spalding Gray stand-up Steev Martin Temporary Services The Suburban

Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in Contemporary Dance and Performance
Artist/Author: Bojana Cvejic | Reference: P3593 | ISBN: 978-1349556106 | Type: Publication

Illuminates the relationship between philosophy and experimental choreographic practice today in the works of leading European choreographers.

affect apparatus Baruch Spinoza becoming Boris Charmatz composition concepts contemporary dance criticism duration Eszter Salamon experimental expression Gilles Deleuze Henri Bergson idea improvisation Jan Ritsema Jefta Dinther Jérôme Bel Jonathan Burrows Mette Ingvartsen movement performance process representation Self Unfinished sensation spectatorship temporality theory time Weak Dance Strong Questions Xavier Le Roy

Encounters in Performance Philosophy
Editor: Laura Cull, Alice Lagaay | Reference: P3589 | ISBN: 978-1137462718 | Type: Publication

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.

acting affect Alan Read Alice Lagaay Arno Böhler author body character Christianity cognition consciousness corporality Denis Guénoun dialectics embodiment Emmanuel Alloa Esa Kirkkopelto ethics fiction Freddie Rokem future Gilles Deleuze identity immanence invisible J. L. Austin Jean-Luc Nancy Katja Rothe knowledge language Laura Cull literature Martin Heidegger Martin Puchner Merleau-Ponty metaphysics mimesis morality nature Nietzsche Nimrod Reitman origin Paul A. Kottman pedagogy performativity Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Plato politics power process public religion repetition representation sacrifice self sensibility Sigmund Freud site specific Socrates speculation Sybille Krämer tragedy Walter Benjamin

Enduring Creation: Art, Pain, and Fortitude
Artist/Author: Nigel Spivey | Reference: P3595 | ISBN: 978-0520230224 | Type: Publication

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?

art history Auschwitz body Christ Christianity Crucifixion Edvard Munch endurance history holocaust Jesus Massacre of the Innocents pain Rembrandt representation Sebastian Vincent van Gogh visual art

Artists in the Archive: Creative and Curatorial Engagements with Documents of Art and Performance
Editor: Paul Clarke, Simon Jones, Nick Kaye, Johanna Linsley | Reference: P3581 | ISBN: 978-1138929784 | Type: Publication

Explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a collection of critical writings and original artworks, 

9 Beginnings abuse Adrian Heathfield Amelia Jones Andrew Quick archiving Blast Theory choreography Claire MacDonald curating dance document experimental theatre Felix Gmelin Fiona Templeton Giles Bailey Group Show history image Janez Janša John Hunter Kaprow Koh Nguang How Lin Hixon liveness Maaike Bleeker Marina Abramović Matthew Goulish Mike Pearson Nao Bustamente performance art politics repetition representation Robin Deacon Rosemary Butcher Simon Jones Singapore Stefanie Sachsenmaier Terry O'Connor Theatre of Mistakes Tim Etchells Traci Kelly visual art Vito Acconci Wooster Group Zhang Huan

The Uses Of Autobiography
Editor: Julia Swindells | Reference: P3487 | ISBN: 978-0748403663 | Type: Publication

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.

activism adult learning Africa Alice James anthropology Ato Quayson authorship Brian Ridgers censorship Cheryl-Ann Michael Claire MacDonald Clare Bake community curating David Whitley ethnicity feminism feminist gender genre Gillie Bolton history iconography identity Jane Unsworth Janet Bottoms Janet Frame Laura Marcus literature Margaretta Jolly Maroula Joannou memory militancy Morag Styles Nadia Valman Nelson Mandela Pam Hirsch peace performance art personal politics public public sphere race representation Ruth A Symes Sarah Meer self sentimentality slavery social change social context suffragette testimony Victorian war Winnie Mandela Wole Soyinka women World War II writing

Acting Out: Feminist Performances
Editor: Lynda Hart, Peggy Phelan | Reference: P3492 | ISBN: 978-0472064793 | Type: Publication

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).

abortion activism aesthetic America Amy Robinson Anna Deavere Smith artist body butch Cherríe Moraga chicano criticism culture desire Electra Elin Diamond equality female feminism feminist art femme gay gender heterosexuality Hilary Harris Holly Hughes human rights identity ideology India Janelle Reinelt Jill Dolan Joyce Devlin Judy C. Rosenthal Julia Malnig Karen Finley Kate Clinton Kate Davy Lady Dick lesbian LGBTQ live art Lois Weaver Lynda Hart Lynda M. Hill mimesis mimicry mother Operation Rescue paternity patriarchy performance art Philip Auslander politics Raewyn Whyte Rebecca Schneider representation Roseanne Barr Sandra L. Richards Split Britches stand-up Vivian M. Patraka women Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano

Donation

£