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Unlimited: A London 2012 Festival Book

Reference: P2167 | Type: Publication

The Unlimited festival at the Southbank Centre was the largest ever festival in the UK celebrating disabled and Deaf artists, breaking new ground both for the venue and the artists.

THE FALL OF FAUST: CONSIDERATIONS ON CONTEMPORARY ART AND ART ACTION

Artist/Author: Andrea Pagnes, Verena Stenke (VestAndPage) | Reference: P2135 | ISBN: 978-88-905161-0-8 | Type: Publication

What distinguishes Pagnes and Stenke from other artists is that besides their continuing practice, which has taken them to major art centres around the world, they are also interested in the theoretical aspects of communication, in decoding the hidden fabric of art and of artistic activity. This book is divided into two sections, one devoted to theoretical aspects and the other is devoted to artistic practice.

Dear Stranger, I Love You: the ethics of community in Rajni Shah Projects’ Glorious

Artist/Author: Rajni Shah Projects | Reference: P2117 | ISBN: 978-1-86220-306-8 | Type: Publication

This publication brings together four ways of looking at Glorious, and includes: a short film made in response to six performances of the show; a music video shot in and around Lancaster and Morecambe; a critical overview of the process behind two iterations of the project; and The Glorious Storybook, a collection of essays and images from throughout the process.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Common

Artist/Author: Hayley Newman | Reference: P2116 | ISBN: 978-0-9553792-6-0 | Type: Publication

Through fact and fiction, questions and answers, writings from the heart and writing from the street, Common chronicles one day of a Self-Appointed-Artist-in-Residence in the City of London. Performances occur and reoccur as this book takes us to crashes in global markets, turbulence in the Euro-zone, riots on hot summer nights and the most extraordinary imaginings.

Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

Artist/Author: Claire Bishop | Reference: P2127 | ISBN: 978-1-84467-690-3 | Type: Publication

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.

Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater

Artist/Author: Jonathan Kalb | Reference: P2113 | ISBN: 978-0472117956 | Type: Publication

Kalb weaves his impressive historical knowledge of theatre into detailed descriptions of marathon productions he has seen and studied.

The Free University of Liverpool /Foundations

Artist/Author: Various | Reference: P2100 | ISBN: 978-0-957-4349-0-5 | Type: Publication

A document of the Foundation degree and the various tactics that were dreamed up in order to make FUL work.

Conversation Pieces / community and communication in modern art

Artist/Author: Grant H. Kester | Reference: P2099 | ISBN: 978-0-520-23839-8 | Type: Publication

Grant Kester treats the relationship between art and democracy as pedagogical, performative, and ethical, he revives our understanding of the importance of civic engagement, solidarity, conversation, and public intervention.

Reactor 2006-2011

Artist/Author: Reactor | Editor: Reactor | Reference: D2035 | Type: DVD

Documents the group’s work across this six-year period. In addition to many video edits that have not been seen before, each video has an alternative audio track featuring interviews by Mel Jordan, Ilana Mitchell, Daniel Oliver, Stuart Tait, Sally O’Reilly and John McGrath. In these interviews members of Reactor (past and present) discuss each project, or aspects of the groups practice that impacted on a project in a particular way.

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