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The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson
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.
Theatre and The Body
Drawing on many examples from contemporary performance, this book is a provocative starting point for understanding the surprisingly complex relationship between theatre and the body. Foreword by Marina Abramovic.
Not Just a Mirror: Looking for the Political Theatre of Today
The publication is comprised of eight essays, two interviews, and 15 case studies of political theatre makers, and investigates the performing arts as a political laboratory of the present. It explores how theatre, dance, and performance reveal their essential agnosticism, provoking the potential to actively change society rather than merely serving as a cover-up for the dysfunctions, fractures, and wounds of society.
The Illuminated Theatre: Studies on the Suffering of Images
A book about theatricality and spectatorship in the early twenty-first century. In a wide-ranging analysis that draws upon theatrical, visual and philosophical approaches, it asks how spectators and audiences negotiate the complexities and challenges of contemporary experimental performance arts.
The Work of Art Is a Parasite
Lola Arias, co-curator of the international urban intervention project Ciudades Paralelas, talks with Bertie Friedman about reappraising notions of public space and spectatorship.
Études Irlandaises – Suppressed Voices: The Suffering and Silencing of Irish Institutional Abuse Sur
This essay extracted from Études Irlandaises (n° 39-1) examines “Redress” (2010-2012), a series of performances by artist Áine Phillips that interrogate the legacy of abuse perpetrated in Irish residential institutions in the 20th century.
Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance
Investigates the extent to which performance can represent the ‘unrepresentable’ of trauma.
Going Public
Exploration of art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.
Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History
Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies, and art history, the publication addresses the conundrum of how Live Art is positioned within history.
One Day Symposium: Being Seen Being Heard (Part 2)
Being Seen Being Heard, Symposium at Sacred: Keeping the Faith, festival at Chelsea Theatre, London, 24-28 November 2011.
Plays One: My Arm, An Oak Tree, ENGLAND, The Author
Play collection.
Seven Easy Pieces
See also D0342 for still images, and P1002 essays and catalogue.
