Documentation from the public screening of Adrian Howells' works featuring presentations from Adrian's collaborators and colleagues. The event launched LADA screens 13 and the publication It’s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells. Selected works of Adrian Howells were available online 18 July – 1 August 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel.
Follows two nurses, both named Jackie, who create biographical slideshows for patients as a tool for reflection on posthumous digital legacies, withdrawal, friendships, cultural and social loss, and memory as identity.
Part of LADA Screens 11. The film was available online 16-29 May 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel. Includes a compilation of episodes 1 – 7, split into two files.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
The fourteen essays bringing together a unique gathering of artists, many of whome make works which arise out of responses to the situation or the environment in which they find themselves.
A recipe book produced following a series of public events involving local South Essex foods, their source, preparation and consumption.
Focuses on the intersection of social and public projects, and the possibilities of art practice in public space.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
The universal basic income idea is, overall, profoundly performative, in that it attempts to model the ultimate pragmatism of wider social nets of generosity, and does so by representing the embodied conditions that might be brought into being by such generosity. In this way, the utopian heuristic of an unconditional, guaranteed income is said to be an ‘instrument of freedom’ and a ‘device for economic sanity’. The question is though, as is often the case: freedom and sanity for whom?
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Publication accompanying a survey exhibition of image-making, community activism and public works produced by the seminal AIDS activist art collective Gran Fury between 1987 and 1995.
In misc. folder 7.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Publication on the annual conference about socially engaged art organised by Heart of Glass in St Helens. Participants were invited to collectively source local ingredients and create, serve and eat a meal.
Programme for the event exploring questions of negotiation, exchange and representation in contemporary collaborative arts practice. (20-23 June 2018, Dublin.)
Exhibition programme. The LAB Gallery, Dublin, 18 June – 19 August 2018.
Describes the framework in which Deveron Projects works and contributes to the social wellbeing of Huntly.
Interview with Meredith Monk.
Festival catalogue, 14-16 October 1999, Timisoara. In Romanian and English.
Elaborates a new perspective on performance that links ecology and aesthetics.
Documents the crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
What do we understand by collaborative artistic practices in Spain? After three years of research, this publication bears witness to the diversity of points of view and opinions by Spanish artists and key agents working in this field.
The aim in bringing these voices together in a single publication is that they will add to the already existing discussion in English and will influence future theoretical discourses more broadly.
The art of sloth and reverie as oppositional (in)activities.
Documentation from the DIY 12 project: can you start a University of Live Art in your front room, garden shed or local pub?
What happens when you give a live artist the keys to the library?
Artist biography and promotional material for Pocket Theatre M (Džepno pozorište M), founded on the premises of a psychiatric clinic.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Documentation from two performances, presented at Brisbane Arts (2007) and MAJU JAYA Performance Art Festival (2007).
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Exhibition catalogue; 11 October – 3 December 2005; Kunsthalle Darmstadt. In English ad German.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The project received overwhelming worldwide attention and spawned provocative online debates; ultimately, Bilal was named Chicago Tribune's Artist of the Year. Structured in two parallel narratives, the story of Bilal's life journey and his Domestic Tension experience, Shoot an Iraqi is for anyone who seeks insight into the current conflict in Iraq and for those fascinated by interactive art technologies and the ever-expanding world of online gaming.
Book review.
An artist book which samples his performance and art practices over 14 years, with text by Victoria Wynne-Jones, Mark Amery and Gradon Diprose.
Citing Howells’ permissive mantra as its title, the book includes new writing from leading scholars and artists, as well as writing by Howells himself, an extensive interview, scores, and visual materials, which together offer new insight into the artist’s ground-breaking process.
A cofounder of the United Kingdom's legendary 1980s performance theatre company Impact Theatre Co-op, MacDonald composed Utopia, a sequence of commissioned play texts, between 1987 and 2008. This edition brings together both the plays and the story of how the plays came to be made and written.
The essay interrogates Hadas Ophrat's piece Insomnia.
An article dissecting how arts interfere and engage with politics.
In misc folder 7.
Analysis of representation and interculturalism in Back to Back Theatre's production.
Includes: Foreign Sky, Beast of Me and Still Hear the Wound.
Catalogued with a spanned DVD.
A new publication celebrating the various communities of barbershops across East London. Comissioned by CUT Festival: The Art of Barbering.
Includes: Foreign Sky, Beast of Me, Still Hear the Wound
Catalogued with a spanned DVD.
Weaves together the various voices for the art collective to offer readers both an analysis and an experience of the group's performance: the inner voice of the performance; the critical voice of the witness; and the frustrating redactions reflecting Tate and BP's hidden contracts.
Four interviews and ten essays, case studies, manifestos and anti-manifestos by theatre makers, curators, critics, and scholars, presenting various examples of audience participation in theatre and linking them to problems of participation in democracy and to socially engaged art.
During 2016 Blast Theory and Tony White worked with a group of young people in libraries in Telford and Wrekin to re-imagine libraries, story telling and their place in the world. On 29 October 2016, over the course of 9 hours from 3pm to midnight, the young people took control of their local libraries, and performed live to a worldwide audience. This book is a result of that process.
Published as part of the eponymous exhibition at the Barbican 14 July – 4 September. Surveys the Icelandic artist's practice from his student work to today.
This item can be found in the locked glass cabinet.
This fully illustrated publication documents Ross’s works from 1970 to 2013, including early feminist collaborative works, drawings made at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in the 1980s, poster designs for the antinuclear movement, works relating to the writings of Walter Benjamin, and documentation from the sixty performances of Anniversary—an act of memory (2008–13), solo, collective, and multilingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which concluded with a final collaborative performance at the UN in Geneva on the day of Ross’s death.
Newspaper commissioned for (in)Xclusion festival 2012. The brief was to respond to issues of social exclusion through the framing of performance – images generated collaboratively over a 3 day workshop.
Published on the occasion of Brisley's exhibition State of Denmark at Modern Art Oxford, September-November 2014.
Social Movement of the Body: a series of laboratories in collaboration with Latin American universities.
Includes separate artist CV, portfolio and press clippings.
Short clips. 3:44
Publication on the project which saw the artist working with the residents of Iwade from July 2015 to explore the village’s changing identity in the flux of the new build development. The project included workshops, residencies and live events hosted by artists, musicians and archeologists.
Artists' events, projects and publications curated, commissioned and produced from December 1979 to the present day. Found in miscellaneous article folder #5B
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Generally recognized as the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English, this book presents a rich variety of articles, leaflets, graffiti and internal documents, ranging from early experiments in “psychogeography” to lucid analyses of the Watts riot, the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and other crises and upheavals of the sixties.
On Monday 28 May 2012, Noëmi Lakmaier undertook a slow and exhausting test of endurance – an attempt to crawl from Toynbee Studios towards ‘The Gherkin’.
Film: Hydar Dewachi. 14:39
Birthmark – a live unsanctioned performance was performed in the 1840s gallery of 'A BP Walk Through British Art' at Tate Britain on the 28th November, 2015, the start of the Paris climate talks.
Alt Går Bra sets out to research the intersections between art and politics through exhibits and performances, printed publications and invited guests. Trykksak includes a selection of texts, poems, graphics, artwork, speaches etc.