In Other Words is a collection of urgent reflections, created by 49 artists over 4 months in 2020 exploring their hopes and fears for the future at a time of global crisis. Through prose, poetry, drawing, collage and photography it is a clarion call for change from a diverse group rich in wisdom, shared experience, and what it means to be marginalised in the UK.
An anthology of critical essays that draw on a decade of the authors thinking, writing about and working within contemporary performance as critics, producers, dramaturgs, makers, archivists and more.
Documentation of the event marking the end of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four, a project about Live Art and Cultural Privilege.
A collection of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art that were originally published, shared, sent, spread and read between January 2015 and December 2017. Selected through recommendations and an open call for submissions, Volume 5 reflects the dynamic, international contexts that Live Art and radical performance practices occupy.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A collection of postcards with artist photos taken by Revell.
A guide exploring how to embed democratic practice within arts and cultural organisations. In misc folder 7.
A toolkit of methodologies; part of Let’s Get Classy: the Study Room Guide on Live Art, class and cultural privilege.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
A publication highlighting a selection of the many events, opportunities, publications and research projects that LADA produced over the course of 12 months in 2015/16.
Study Room Guide created as part of a research residency, exploring Live Art practices and methodologies when working with those who re excluded through economic and social barriers.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Club Kids: From Speakeasies to Boombox and Beyond is a visual study and critical analysis of the social trends relating to ‘club culture’. Contributors: Francis Bacon, George Melly, Muriel Belcher, Harry Belafonte, Paul Anka, Klaus Nomi, Jonny Thunders, Andrew Logan, Jonny Sluit, Specimen, Steve Strange, Leigh Bowery, Walt Paper, Misshapes, Carri Mundane, Feral, Boy George, Spandau Ballet, Michael Alig, Ryan Styles, Matthew !WOWOW!, Beth Ditto, Molaroid, Jodie Harsh, Scottee, The-O Adams, Gary Card, Matthew Glamorre, Henry Holland, Gwendoline, K-Tron, Jonny Makeup, Ricard Mortimer, Princess Julia.
Boxset contains 40 DVDS documenting public events with contextualising texts. Shelved in Oversize section.
This is Not a Dream charts four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism, following the influences of Andy Warhol, Jack Smith and John Walters. Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.
This is Not a Dream charts four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism, following the influences of Andy Warhol, Jack Smith and John Walters. Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.
Cabaret documentation.
A Study Room Guide on eating and dining as explored in performance
Oreet Ashery, Larissa Sansour Ashery, Paul Wolf, Melissa Wolf
Live footage of Dickie Beau performing October 27th, 2011. Filmed by the British Library, Joao Florencio, and Joe E. Jeffreys.