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Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance

Artist/Author: Josephine Machon | Reference: P2866 | ISBN: 978-1137019837 | Type: Publication

Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, this is the first survey of immersive theories and practices for students, scholars and practitioners of contemporary performance. It includes interviews with immersive artists and examines key topics such as site-specific performance and immersive technologies.

The Future Show

Artist/Author: Deborah Pearson | Reference: P2808 | ISBN: 978-1783192953 | Type: Publication

The Future Show is both a performance and an on-going project. It is a piece that tells the story of a one person's future, starting from the end of a performance and going until the end of her life.

Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Artist/Author: Untitled Projects | Reference: P2789 | ISBN: 978-1783199495 | Type: Publication

In 1987, Paul Bright, a rebellious young Scottish director set out to stage James Hogg’s cult novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner in a series of radical productions across Scotland. In 2010, Untitled Projects began work with the actor George Anton to assemble an archive and exhibition of this almost-forgotten feat of theatre.

State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970

Artist/Author: Constance M. Lewallen and Karen Moss | Reference: P2786 | ISBN: 978-0520270619 | Type: Publication

This companion book to the exhibition of the same name investigates California’s vital contributions to Conceptual art—in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists.

Embodied Places: Performance Practices in Public Space

Artist/Author: Nathalie Fari, et al. | Reference: P2730 | ISBN: 978-3-00-049454-3 | Type: Publication

This catalogue explores different artistic strategies, notions and formats for developing performances in public space, using specific sites in Berlin as platforms to “embody” the city. Featured authors/artists: Bettina Wagner, Dovrat Meron, Grasiele Sousa & Lucio Agra, Michaela Muchina, Nathalie Fari, Paula Hildebrandt 

Unsustainable Acts of Love and Resistance: The Politics of Value and Cost in One-on-One Performances

Artist/Author: Deborah Pearson | Reference: A0623 | Type: Article

In this article, the author contends that politically themed one-on-one performances provide value because their budgets do not fit into a comfortable capitalist model of exchange. To be found in Miscellaneous Articles Folder #4.

Nothing To Declare

Artist/Author: Dictaphone Group | Reference: P2662 | Type: Publication

Research booklet for a collaborative project initiated by live artist Tania El Khoury and researcher and architect Abir Saksouk. “Nothing To Declare” was the group’s first lecture performance and was developed during a residency at Watermill Studios in the United States in April 2013. Also see video documentation ref EF5156.

Nothing to Declare

Artist/Author: Dictaphone Group | Digital Reference: EF5156 | Type: Digital File

Trailer of a collaborative project initiated by live artist Tania El Khoury and researcher and architect Abir Saksouk. “Nothing To Declare” was the group’s first lecture performance and was developed during a residency at Watermill Studios in the United States in April 2013. Also find the project's Research Booklet as P2662.

Sudden as a Massacre

Artist/Author: Kate Gilmore | Digital Reference: EF5159 | Type: Digital File

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.

DIY 11: 2014 - ‘Chances Are’ Mail Art Collection

Artist/Author: Anne Bean, Siriol Joyner, Yol, Katy Baird, Daniel Gosling, Thomas Bacon, Ezra Rubenstein and Elspeth Owen | Reference: P2633 | Type: Publication

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.