Second edition of the artwork exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations.
In 2014, artist Gustaf Broms composed a list of nine questions that he started to circulate to fellow performance artists. The responses collected are as diverse and wide-ranging as the artists and their own approaches.
Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present, as well as protest actions from the lunch counter sit-ins of the US civil rights movement to protest camps in the twenty-first century, this book provides a formal account of endurance and illuminates its ethical and political significance.
Brings together a variety of essays, photographs and archival materials and on the history of early performance art in East Asia. The publication will include texts by An invaluable new research tool, the publication is available free at events and online.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
For the 11th edition of DRAF Curators’ Series, guest curator Victor Wang 王宗孚 launches the Institute of Asian Performance Art (IAPA), an international network to deepen the awareness and understanding of the history of early performance art in Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan.
Exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations andrawing on key Live Art themes and seminal works, PLAYING UP takes the form of a game played by adults and kids together. In German.
Exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations andrawing on key Live Art themes and seminal works, PLAYING UP takes the form of a game played by adults and kids together.
Documents the artist’s two-year (2015-2017) experimental site-specific art project. The project involved Chen’s visits to 168 locations set out as squares on a Google map of Greater London, and used the city as a stage and open space for the execution of Chen’s experiments.
A publication highlighting a selection of the many events, opportunities, publications and research projects that LADA produced over the course of 12 months in 2015/16.
Festival catalogue.
The full screening programe from Playing With Space, a touring film programme curated by Lawrence Bradby that celebrates artists who have been making guerrilla interventions, granting themselves the right to make their own work public. The file include a PDF documents with information and text on the event.
Endurance was a three-day programme of screenings, performances and exhibition exploring the physical and mental limits of human experience (24 April – 26 June 2008 at VIVID, Birmingham). This forder includes flyers, programme and booklet with programme notes and texts by Tracey Warr, Kay Winwood, Deborah Kermode.
Study Boxes contain hand picked selections of DVDs, books and other materials from the LADA Study Room around specific themes. Installed in Festival hubs and other locations, and curated in dialogue with partners, each Study Box can hold between four to ten items and can be used by audiences for a quick browse or a day-long study. After the events the Boxes are returned to the Study Room and listed in this Guide so that users can explore these themes and materials during their visit to the LADA Study Room.
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This publication explores the ethical challenges with which performance art confronts its viewers speak to the reimagining of the audience.
Publication accompanying the homonymous symposium: a collaboration between Plymouth Arts Centre and artist Marina Abramovic to produce a performance event that explored the history and future of the artist’s work. Newspaper-style publication in large folder.
Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies, and art history, the publication addresses the conundrum of how Live Art is positioned within history.
Exhibition and events shown at the 6th Liverpool Biennial. 18 September – 28 November 2010.
Looks at the ways in which artists use ideas of service and labour as creative strategies. Find in misc. articles folder 2
Brings together Carr’s writings to offer a detailed and insightful history of performance from the late 70s to today.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529)
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Examines the work of 16 international modern and contemporary artists whose practices centre on the construction of private worlds or focus on the exposure of hidden facts. The book makes specific reference to Kurt Schwitters, whose seminal work, the “Merzbau”, remains one of the confounding riddles of contemporary art. Including essays by artist and curator, Richard Grayson, specialist in outsider art Roger Cardinal, and Hayward Exhibitions Curator Clare Carolin, “A Secret Service” explores the spaces between psychological compulsion and philosophical expression, and maps the strange and awesome possibilities of the human imagination. Artists featured include: Sophie Calle, Roberto Cuoghi, Henry Darger, Gedewon, Susan Hiller, Tehching Hsieh, Joachim Koester, Kataryzna Josefowicz, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Mark Lombardi, Mike Nelson, Kurt Schwitters, Speculative Archive, Jeffery Vallance and Oskar Voll.
in Taiwanese
Donation from Taiwanese Women’s Theatre Festival ( in Taiwanese)
This DVD was produced by the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art of Franklin Furnace’s Founding Director, Martha Wilson, on the occasion of the “History of Disappearance” exhibition drawn from Franklin Furnace’s archives.