The curator who founded MoMA’s video program recounts the artists and events that defined the medium.
Recounts Preciado’s transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., and examines other processes of political, cultural and sexual transition.
A recipe book produced following a series of public events involving local South Essex foods, their source, preparation and consumption.
Illuminates the shift in approaches to the uses of theatre and performance technology in the past twenty-five years and develops an account of new media dramaturgy (NMD), an approach to theatre informed by what the technology itself seems to want to say.
A book about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in “significant otherness”.
Critical analyses of cultural spectacle and social identity by eighteen major Australian scholars and practitioners.
Brings together established and emerging practitioners who work with light, as material or subject.
Explores performance art through live manifestations and reiterations in photographs, film and video.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the development, theory and definitive characteristics of a rapidly developing and popular area of practice.
Constructs a genealogy of accelerationism, calling attention to early anticipations of accelerationism, and presenting new essays that document the emergence of new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-žrst century.
Explores how video art addresses the interplay between external reality and internal states of mind. Exhibition catalogue; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, January – August 2002.
An exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society.
The essays in this book – some newly written, others gathered from scattered sources – look at the ways in which contemporary science fiction films draw on, rework, and transform established themes and conventions of the genre.
Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems the books reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime.
A broad-ranging survey that explores and celebrates humankind’s ongoing fascination with animals. This carefully curated selection of images, chosen by an international panel of experts, delves into our shared past to tell the story of animal life.
Explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.
In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fuelling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion.
Traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards, considering the unique challenges of documenting live events.
On Multimediales, at ZKM, Germany.
On the Group's Brace up! and Fish Story.
Exhibition catalogue. 19 September 1999 – 3 January 2000, Wexner Centre for the Arts, The Ohio State University.
Festival / exhibition catalogue. 6-18 October 2017.
In Croatian and English.
A performance for video, shot in one take; features the artist being cut out of a corset by her mother.
4mins/silent/single play or loop/4:3
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Documentation from the three year project with young people in conflict with the law and at social risk in Rio de Janeiro.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a more inclusive, expansive history of bioart, namely: home economics; the feminist art of the 1970s; tissue culture methodologies; domestic computing; and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.
A compilation of the best of Library Juice, an e-zine that dealt with foundational questions of librarianship during a period of rapid change.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Authors offer ways to fight today’s pervasive digital surveillance — the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects.
The first book to provide a collection of key writings about the process of documenting performance, focused not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance.
Collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre.
Looking back on the experience of directing the world premiere of Svich's play at the University of Missouri.
Kaprow’s sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself is brought into focus in this newly expanded collection of his most significant writings.
Newspaper published to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary.
In this interactive media performance Zoo Indigo take their babies on tour so they can perform while you babysit.
Includes the 2012 performance text and a DVD.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
This provocative event slips between testimony and reflection, emotion and medicine, flesh and technology to contemplate our abiding fascination with what lies under our skin.
2007; 25:23
Includes:
Dual performance to Skype camera
Blood, 2013 (1:47); Block, 2013 (1:48); Lançar- to throw 2013 (0:39); Alinhar – to Align, 2013 (0:58); Cloud try 3, 2013 (0:51); Red line, 2015 (0:50); A short story, 2015 (1:04); Annunciation 1 & 2, 2015 (2:08)
Dual performance to the camera
Skull-line, cranial suture, 2014 (0:46); Measuring the room, 2014 (1:27); Tables, 2015 (2:05); To do with you, 2016 (2:20); Push, 2011 (1:25); Dictionario (excerpt), 2011; And –And, 2016 (3:44)
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)
The most provocative voices of the Digital Age grapple with the direction of digital technology and its concomitant issues, including virtual identities and their relationship to the physical self, the collision of commercial and community interests on the Net, the Net threat to intellectual property, and the merger of art, popular culture, and commerce in interactive media.
This publication draws together documentation of the event in the form of photographs, creative responses, first-hand accounts from performers and a feature length edit of the performance on accompanying DVD. Also included are critical and reflective essays on Katherine’s work to date by contributors Lois Keidan, Marcia Farquhar and Aaron Williamson. Publication with DVD (Audio Description option and subtitles).
The author reflects on the “Monica Ross: A Symposium” that took place at the British Library, London, on Friday 28 November 2014, in celebration of the institution’s acquisition of Ross’s digital archive.
Unlimited Theatre, Storythings and the Product Design Research Studio, University of Dundee – the team behind UNeditions – share their experiences of what makes co-design work.
Catalogue of a practice-based research project under the direction of Paul Heritage that aims to create a live and interactive exhibition illustrating and investigating how young people transform their worlds through the arts.
Alex Sarti in conversation with Franco Berardi (Bifo).
Three parts documentation of performance questioning some of the tropes associated with contemporary women and the internet. Presented in the context of “Fem Fresh” (Sunday 8 June 2014), a collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London and the Live Art Development Agency, featuring presentations and dialogues on, about, and around feminism and age in Live Art.
Music video for the 1981 song as displayed in the MOMA, New York.
Small catalogue of an exhibition offering a fresh appraisal of an abandoned medium. SLIDE/TAPE re-stages key works in the original format and draws a little seen practice out from the margins of British art history.
Catalogue documenting the work of American dancer and choreographer Richard Siegal and the artistic network called THE BAKERY.
Book published to accompany the 2004 exhibition of the same name
Artists included: Giovanni Anselmo, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Marinus Boezem, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Jan Dibbets, Gino de Dominicis, Ger van Elk, Barry Flanagan, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert and George, Michael Heizer, Wolf Knoebel, Gary Kuehn, Richard Long, Walter de Maria, Mario Merz, Dennis Oppenheim, Klaus Rinke, Ulrich Ruckriem, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Franz Erhard, Walther, Lawrence Weiner, Gilberto Zorio