Provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World.

From war and environmental pollution to racism and sexual assault, the publication analyzes the consequences of trauma as seen in the works of artists like Marina Abramović, Pope.L, and Chris Burden.

The result of five years of practice-based creative research focused on the UPRISING project, the book presents a number of methods for the creation of politically charged interactive public events in the style of a how-to guide. 

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

Features 16 commissioned contributions from scholars, arts journalists and bloggers, as well as a small selection of innovative critical practice, sharing perspectives on relevant historical, theoretical and political contexts influencing the development of the discipline, as well as specific aspects of the contemporary practices and genres of theatre criticism.

Includes interviews, dialogues and critical writing on art and politics. In French.

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

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.

An Investigation into the political efficacy of Pussy Riot’s art.

Immediately after Nadezda Tolokonnikova and  Maria Alekhina were released, Verwelius contacted the two, setting into motion an extraordinary photo shoot: using the activists’ stories and sketches of the prison camp, he depicted their living and working conditions there as an impressive picture series. In English and Dutch.

Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance art in the region developed concurrently with the genre in the West, highlighting the unique contributions of Eastern European artists.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

Nicolae, himself a Romanian Roma, gives voice to the Roma cause, offering a precise and candid look at their current situation.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

Includes:

– MOMMA film 7’42”

– Family of the Future, 22’22”

– I Can’t Keep Silence Any More, 2’42”

– Missionary, London 2012, 5’28; Moscow, 1995, 5’38 and 2’20”

– Pavlov’s Dog, 3’49”

– Two Kuliks, 5’58

A collection of contemporary food writing by a star cast of authors, including Nigella Lawson, Anthony Bourdain, Jane Grigson, Umberto Eco, Alice Walker, and Isabel Allende.

Pack of cards, featuring officials of the self proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic. 

Larger cards are used in the eponymous performance.

Exhibition catalogue. 18 September – 12 October 2014. Curated by Clemens Poole.

In Ukranian and English.

A curated program of temporary public art installations throughout the city of Kyiv, challenging artists and viewers to creatively address the changing physical, emotional, and social concepts of occupation.

An overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s.

The first book of its kind to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of capitalist non-reproduction.

Special issue of the Italian periodic on TEATR.DOC Moscow. Text in Italian. 

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.

Reflects on the exchange which took place in November/December 2010 at co-production house brut in Vienna. The artists worked for ten days as duo teams on site-specific performance projects which were presented in a two-day programme all over the brut venue in Vienna’s Künstlerhaus. In English and Russian.

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Louder Than Bombs, Stanley Picker Gallery. See oversized materials shelf

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Article about the events surrounding the show of Siberian artist collective Blue Noses.

Includes essays on eighty artists from fourteen countries and discuss the tradition of an art form that emerged during socialism in cultural centers such as Prague, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Warsaw, and Zagreb. In English and Slovenian. Published for the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.

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

Music for the project ‘Recipes’ by Masha Chuykova.