Clip of a site-specific installation, video, and performance-based project. In a private performance for the camera, a quintet of women will tear apart an enormous cube comprising more than5,050 pounds of wet clay. As the block disappears, the space will be covered in the evidence of action.
A disparate collection of ‘chance’ materials and objects assembled and curated via post by the participants with the artist Anne Bean. Part of the DIY 11 collaborative project using chance device as a means for intuition and creation. Loose materials in large black folder.
Portfolio of images of the artistic work accompished by the duo over the last two decades.
Documentation of durational performance considerng acts of political whitewashing. Performed as part of LABOUR (2012): a touring exhibition of Live Art, featuring eleven leading female artists who are resident within, or native to, Northern and Southern Ireland.
Itinerary map of Sideways festival organised as a 4 week expedition through Belgium, from West to East, between August 17th and September 17th 2012.
Booklet of site specific live performance that explores the concepts of access to the sea and public space in the city through Beirut’s seafront.
Documents from the performances “A Greaât Stitheram” in the Greyfriars, Lincoln, and “Change in Energy = the Work” at Arnolfini.
Publication documenting a series of ambitious large-scale public artworks by the environmental arts organisation NVA. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
An indepth analysis of the work of three significant African diaspora artists – David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Pamela Z – with essays examining site specific installations and peformances concieved by these artists for Dak'Art 2004, the Biennale of Contemporary African Art
Poses questions over the nature of action, identity and the self in the relationship with media forms.
Sophie Calle’s project Double Game interweaves the artist’s life with that of Maria, a character in Paul Auster’s novel ‘Leviathan’, blurring the lines between reality and fiction. Second edition
A collection of critical essays and artist reflections considering some of the richest and most important developments to take place in contemporary Irish theatre and performance.
‘Performing Site-Specific Theatre turns a critical eye to the form of site-specific theatre, investigating the nature of the relationship between ‘site’ and ‘performance’. Contributors: Joanne Thompkins, Anna Birch, Michael McKinnie, Susan Bennett, Julie Sanders, Jane Collins, John Webster, Mike Pearson, Kathleen Irwin, Susan Haedicke, Lesley Ferris, Louise Owen, Keren Zaiontz, Bruce Barton, Richard Windeyer, Helen Iball, Sophie Nield
Documentation of a site-specific performance made for the disused Marshall Street Baths, Soho and Star Dust commissioned by Live Art Development Agency for a Variety Weekend at the newly refurbished De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea.
Online article on InSite, a network of contemporary art programs and commissioned projects mapping the dynamics of permeability and blockage that characterise the liminal border zone of San Diego-Tijuana. To be found in Miscellaneous Articles Folder 4.
Conversation texts by the artist with photographic documentation of works.
Documentation of works and interview with the artist.
Collection of images and documentation for Choi Jeong Hwa’s first UK solo show in Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2007. Shelved in Oversize publications section.
Photo-essay on the life of a building.
An exploration of trees in Paris, including text and drawing.
How to make your own mis-guided tour or walk.
Comprehensive monograph on Rose Finn-Kelcey with illustrations and essays.
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Artist-in-residence project on Cabot Circus building site, Bristol. Includes DVD.
Collection of photographs with critical text.
Attitude performance-installation at ‘Infecting the City Public Arts Festival’, Cape Town, South Africa, 2013
Published to coincide with 1996 exhibition.
Documenting artists and researcher collaboration at Epstein Archive
a body of work related to The Affligare, a medieval European tribe of disabled mendicants, or ‘beggar cripples’
Publication to coincide with exhibition, 2013. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
Information pack, press reviews, photographs and marketing material from Back to Back Theatre’s performance piece Small Metal Objects (2005)
Publication and 2 DVDs, one multimedia, one audio/video.
A collection of documents of works by Those Environmental Artists, including audience questionnaires, project descriptions and promotional material.
In the Name of Art gives a progressive meaning in terms of the existence and the argument of art in Taiwan. It approaches the early situation and looks at visual subjects initiated during the Japanese colonial period and the post-war era with a modern view. In addition to documenting, the series discusses the contemporary art scene since the 1980s under several milestone issues such as gender, ethnicity, and globalization.
Pod3 is an experimental performance installation developed over four days by participants of the Awakenings Festival in collaboration with Back to Back Theatre. Running time 5 minutes.
Designed to be performed in a sheltered outdoor civic space, Small Metal Objects seeks to realise the inner realm and simultaneously re-interpret the exterior urban environment as a new performance landscape. Running time 45 minutes.
The Polis Series was an inter-disciplinary collaboration which explored questions about the performativity of knowledge. It hoped to critique and enact some of the ways in which knowledge is generated in terms of a poetics of the body in performance.
This collection of essays surveys the performance and promise of contemporary global artist-run centres and initiatives within the historical contexts that saw their emergence.
herst. Theorie Zur Praxis follows the path of the festival (21 September – 14 October 2012) in Austria, by providing reflections, portraits and interviews by or on participants of the festival.
Part of the Anna Birch collection ‘Fragments to Monuments’, 1 x book, 3 x DVDs
Part of the Anna Birch collection ‘Fragments to Monuments’, 1 x book, 3 x DVDs
Part of the Anna Birch collection ‘Fragments to Monuments’, 1 x book, 3 x DVDs. Includes DVD
This booklet tells the story of just one building in the vast metropolis of London – 60 Farringdon Road. Neither particularly distinguished nor particularly old, the building’s past – and that of the immediate neighbourhood of Clerkenwell – illustrates the ebb and flow of city life and commerce, the arriving technologies, fortunes and fashions.
Nought to Sixty was a six-month programme of exhibitions and events at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, held to celebrate the organisation’s sixtieth anniversary. It presented sixty projects from artists, artists’ groups and commentators from the emerging art scenes in Britain and Ireland, including a large number of week-long exhibitions, but also performances, gigs, screenings, talks, publications, off-site projects and social events. This book is a record of an extraordinary six months.
The first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as ‘social practice’. Follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic.
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 29 September – 8 November 2009.
Taken from banners carried in a 1992 protest outside the Guggenheim Museum, the title phrase 'Where is Ana Mendieta?' evokes not only the suspicious and tragic circumstances surrounding her death but also the conspicuous absence of women artists from high-profile exhibitions. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Judith Butler, Joseph Roach, Edward Said, and Homi Bhabha, Jane Blocker discusses the power of Mendieta's earth-and-body art to alter, unsettle, and broaden terms of identity itself.