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Miranda July’s Intermedial Art: The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism

Artist/Author: Antje Czudaj | Reference: P2998 | ISBN: 978-3837633696 | Type: Publication

The first in-depth study of July’s work provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class.

Art and the Law: Obscene Publications

Editor: Index on Censorship and Vivarta | Reference: A0669 | Type: Article

Part of a series of law packs intended to address questions about legal limits related to free expression and the arts.

Forward by Dominic Johnson.

Queer

Editor: David J. Getsy | Reference: P2952 | ISBN: 978-0854882427 | Type: Publication

Part of Whitechapel Gallery’s Documents of Contemporary Art series, a collection of anthologies which collect writing on major themes and ideas in contemporary art. This is the first anthology to bring together artist’s writings and conversations about queer practice, describing and examining the ways in which they have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action and as a basis from which to declare inassimilable difference.

Testo Junkie : Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic

Artist/Author: Paul B. Preciado | Reference: P2956 | ISBN: 978-1558618374 | Type: Publication

Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado’s diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.

Accidental Tourist

Artist/Author: Adrian Howells | Digital Reference: EF5194 | Type: Digital File

A TV documentary following Howells' visit to Israel, where he performed at the Women's International Festival. With Hebrew and Russian subtitles. 

42 minutes. 

14 Stations of the Life and History of Adrian Howells

Artist/Author: Adrian Howells | Digital Reference: EF5196 | Type: Digital File

One-to-one promenade performance that spread across unused spaces in The Arches, a multi-use performance space in Glasgow. Howells led participants in a journey through fourteen sites and 'confessed' to them an autobiography.

Arches Live, 2007.

68 minutes.

An Audience With Adrienne

Artist/Author: Adrian Howells | Digital Reference: EF5192 | Type: Digital File

Drawing on the popular entertainment form 'An Audience with …', Howells creates a performance in which an audience of around 25 is invited to share memories and experiences with his alter ego.

Blurred recording. 2006.

2 hours 36 minutes.

Adrienne’s Dirty Laundry Experience / Adrienne’s Room Service

Artist/Author: Adrian Howells | Digital Reference: EF5202 | Type: Digital File

Adrienne’s Dirty Laundry Service – Arches New Work Commission (2003), 22:16

Adrienne’s Room Service at The Great Eastern Hotel (2005), 8:50

The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson

Editor: Meredith Tromble | Reference: P2916 | ISBN: 978-0520239715 | Type: Publication

This first historical and critical analysis of the artist’s work by prominent scholars and the artist herself brings nearly forty years of creative output into focus by tracking the development of her constant themes through each medium. The essays range from formal to theoretical to psychological to poetical analyses. Includes a DVD.

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