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Crossed Paths – Scots Pine

Artist/Author: Miranda Whall | Reference: EF5426 | Type: Digital File

Miranda Whall’s performance practice employs crawling as a tool that enables her to embody, inhabit and understand a place and its narratives from a four-legged rather than two-legged perspective. So far she has crawled through mountains, woodland, rivers, seaside promenades, tidal mudflats an island and urban centres. On Saturday 6th November 2021 she crawled with a 6-year-old potted Scots Pine on her back through the centre of Glasgow – from the Glasgow Sculpture Studios on Dawson Road to the COP26 Green Zone in the Science Centre on the Clyde Waterfront Regeneration area. Passers-by ignored, laughed, stared, cheered and filmed as the tree and Miranda silently and determinedly made their way through heavy rain and high winds to reach their destination. The intention of Miranda’s heroic/tragic/comic slow and gentle art activism is an expression of her grief, despair and outrage with a world dominated by corporate and personal greed and an insistence that non-human nature, and in this case trees, be put at the centre of discussions on how to mitigate the climate emergency and ecological crisis. Animals, plants, trees, air, earth and oceans should be, metaphorically, sitting at the discussion table with heads of government and delegates.

Miranda’s hope is that crawling to the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference carrying a tree, that was equal in size to her body, might inspire human beings to re-think and re-align their relationship to trees, seeing them not only as a resource to use and abuse but as an ally and a vital source of knowledge. She believes that we all literally need to get down from our human centric, two-legged, dominant and hierarchical position and start recognising our non-human vegetal others as equals, and as sentient beings with a voice – that we crucially need to listen to if we are to find a way out of our human made catastrophe.

Crossed Paths – Scots Pine premiered as part of LADA Screens and was available to watch online from 4 July until 4 August 2022.

This video was screened as part of Land, Material, Memory at Tate Britain on Saturday 28 February 2026.

COMMUCRACY NOW!

Artist/Author: Oozing Gloop! | Reference: EF5424 | Type: Digital File

The world’s biggest and only autistic green Drag Queen, Oozing Gloop is back and inspiring people to re-imagine the structures that govern their lives. Defying usual understanding of meaning and belonging, this world to come is run via a new economy of government – Commucracy!  (But what the fuck is Commucracy? Read the manifesto.)

Follow Oozing Gloop on this epic trip, where you’ll find psychoactive solutions for psychopathetic citizens trapped behind the very screens that are there to help them communicate. From the highest to the lowest Oozing Gloop will seek to link the universal to the particular to revive the democratic impulse and pose the communist hypothesis.

Commucracy Now! is a companion piece to Glooptopia!, Oozing Gloop’s latest theatre show, and is a direct challenge to the notion that people with Autism “struggle with social imagination”, and also to the simple fact it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. We have a wealth of apocalyptic omens, disaster movies and critique; but zero 21st century post-capital-culture. Oozing Gloop defies this with revolutionary zeal and determination to open radical new spheres of imagination and fantasy! Just as we got through that, we can get through this!

This video was screened as part of Land, Material, Memory at Tate Britain on Saturday 28 February 2026.

ouTcasT

Artist/Author: crazinisT artisT | Digital Reference: EF5423

ouTcasT (2018) is a performance for The Rising, a programme from ]performance s p a c e [ in Folkestone, Kent.
The documentation was screened by LADA for Land, Material, Memory at Tate Britain.

A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep

Artist/Author: Neil Bartlett | Digital Reference: EF5242 | Type: Digital File

One-man homage to the defiant life and work of pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon.

Includes performance video and a post-show discussion.

A Vision of Love Revelaed in Sleep

Artist/Author: Neil Bartlett | Digital Reference: EF5240 | Type: Digital File

To celebrate the inclusion of Simeon Solomon’s work in the Queer British Art 1861-1967 exhibition, Bartlett revived the piece for one night only, performing it amidst the masterpieces of the nineteenth century gallery of Tate Britain. July 2017.

Includes video of the performance and the postshow discussion with Dominic Johnson.

Men & Girls Dance newspapers

Editor: David Harradine and Sam Butler | Reference: P3241 | Type: Publication

The Fevered Sleep project brings together adult, male professional contemporary dancers, and girls who dance for fun. This publication includes pieces by people who live and work in each city the project is recreated in. It is a collection of creative writing on the themes of the project, such as love, empathy and trust.

Liberate Tate: Collected Works 2010

Artist/Author: Liberate Tate | Reference: P1663 | Type: Publication

Archive of the work by the art activist collective exploring the role of creative intervention in social change

Terminal Services & Vital Statistics

Artist/Author: Katherine Araniello | Reference: D1427 | Digital Reference: ED1427 | Type: Digital File

Videos of two performances by Katherine Araniello: Terminal Services (2009) and Vital Statistics (2009)

Part of Access All Areas Screening Programme. Also available with subtitles as ED1427SUB. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529)

How Altermodern Are You?

Editor: Cedar Lewisohn | Reference: P1212 | Type: Publication

Special one off edition produced to accompany the exhibition Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009

*currently unavailable*

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