Video documentation of the book launch, as part of LADA Screens. Includes 4 videos.
The first substantial survey of its kind, the publication brings together documentation of performances, drawings, videos, installations, and sculptures, as well as writings, interviews and visual essays by the artist. A series of commissioned critical essays show her to be a prolific maker of acts, objects, and multiple ‘selves’.
Marks the finissage of Abboud's solo exhibition The Horse, the Bird, the Tree and the Stone at Bildmuseet (Sweden, 21 May – 17 September 2017) and the inauguration of her solo show The pomegranate and the sleeping ghoul at Darat al Funun-The Khalid Shoman Foundation (Jordan, 10 October 2017 – 11 January 2018).
The essays in Women, the Arts and Globalization demonstrate that women in the arts are rarely positioned at the centre of the art market, and the movement of women globally (as travelers or migrants, empowered artists/scholars or exiled practitioners), rarely corresponds with the dominant models of global exchange. Rather, contemporary women’s art practices provide a fascinating instance of women’s eccentric experiences of the myriad effects of globalization.
One of the most revealing accounts of what art creation entails and the ways in which the body, the center of our aesthetic knowledge of the world, can be regarded as our most informed teacher.
Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)
*currently unavailable*
Examines themes of being-in-common in today’s world and their relation to the development of art practices. As these practices are implemented, other ways of seeing, understanding, and making appear.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
The Library of Performing Rights is a unique resource containing over 250 items submitted by artists, activists and academics from around the world that examine the intersection between performance and Human Rights.
The catalogue is available here and is continuously updated.
Please note the Library is currently housed in the Study Room but is a touring Library so please contact LADA before your visit to check it is not out on the road.
This book draws a vibrant portrait of the artists and performers who gave the 1963 Village its exhilarating force, the avant-garde whose interweaving of public and private life, work and play, art and ordinary experience, began a wholesale reworking of the social and cultural fabric of America.
For over 20 years Marina Abramović has collected materials from film, dance, theatre, music, rituals and performance. For her lecture at Live Culture she wound through a personal visual archive of performance related materials focused around the performing body, its mental and physical limits.This documentation has since been presented with the permission of the artist as part of the Performance Matters, Performing Idea, Performance Lecture Archive; an interactive video archive housed at the Whitechapel Gallery between 2-9 October 2010. The archive looked at examples of the performance lecture as a form of artistic and critical expression and its potential to address a broad range of cultural issues and philosophical ideas.
Thirty texts written by Suzanne Lacy since 1974.
Six international performance artists collaborate on a project exploring invisible disability through ‘living art' practice. CAUTION includes one DVD of video works and one CD of talking text.
Four performance artists meet to consider the use of video in their work and their relationship to the medium. Can be found in Miscellaneous folder number 3
An artwork and body of research by Tanya Raabe.. An accompanying audio CD of interviews from the live sitting is also available in the Study Room. Ref: D1855
Audio CD of interviews from the live sitting that took place at Tate Modern. An accompany book entitled Revealing Culture: HeadOn, Portraits of the Untold is also available in the Study Room. Ref: P1869
Printed Project, Issue 15 – Physical Stuff Made Strange, Visual Arts Ireland,
Performance Space, London 9/2/12, The Void, Derry, 25/2/12, The LAB, Dublin, 10/2/12.
An interactive audiovisual installation which consists of a projection and various interfaces, a landscape full of situations enabling the spectator to choose which route to follow and construct his/her own story.
A series of crucial practical exercises to help create challenging theatre which transcends the boundaries of nation, gender, and racial identity.
From the publication Maps To Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit, (1989) by Gabrielle Roth
Features documentation of pieces ‘Projector/Conjector’ (2011), ‘Into the Skirt’ (2010), and ‘Pregnant?!’ (2009).
Features an overview of Mamoru Iriguchi’s work and practice.
The experimental art scene in post-Tiananmen China has featured an array of animal bodies, both living and dead, as well as interspecies encounters ranging from the playful to the sadistic, from the gently collaborative to the violently conflictual, which interrogate and destabilize contemporary constructions of the nature-culture binary.
Documentation of the works of Vlasta Delimar 1979-2002.
Animalworks by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu.
Addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage.
This anthology of essays, images and dialogues exploring contemporary art’s engagements with risk–physical, social, political and aesthetic–brings readers into the conference from which the book takes its title, a third annual collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Southern California Consortium of Art Schools (SoCCAS).
CIRCA (Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland), Hilary Robinson, See also, Brutal Silences Study Room Guide, catalogue ref. no. P1661.
Exhibition review. See also, Brutal Silences Study Room Guide, catalogue ref. no. P1661.
Focuses on the historical, cultural and political contexts that inform choreographic and dance practices and critical readings of dance-in other words, how dance operates as critical discourse.
Surveys the intersection between design, science and the senses.
Catalogue to coincide with exhibition of the same name October 2 – December 5 2010 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Text in both Japanese and English.
A touring project and performance, inviting local guest performers through workshops.
Written by Jordan McKenzie reviewing the Norman artwork by Juliet Robson and held in the Live Art Development Agency Archive. Find article in misc. folder 2
For over 20 years Marina Abramović has collected materials from film, dance, theatre, music, rituals and performance. For her lecture at Live Culture she wound through a personal visual archive of performance related materials focused around the performing body, its mental and physical limits.This documentation has since been presented with the permission of the artist as part of the Performance Matters, Performing Idea, Performance Lecture Archive; an interactive video archive housed at the Whitechapel Gallery between 2-9 October 2010. The archive looked at examples of the performance lecture as a form of artistic and critical expression and its potential to address a broad range of cultural issues and philosophical ideas.
Folder containing notes on the performances: The Victim of Political Assassination, Quest for Gaia and Gbanjo… mo gbe de Performance.
Amsterdam readings on the Arts and Arts Education. Drawing on contemporary practice and scholarship in the fields of dance, performance and installation art, theatre/archaeology, ethnography, holistic bodywork and the history of medicine, the collection provides insights into the body as a problematic site of performance and suggests a ‘new authenticity’ which equates both its phenomenological and representational aspects. This item is part of the Study Room Guide: On Falling by Amy Sharrocks (P2249).
Documentation from an event with critical debates, conferences and workshops about the relation betwen Live Art, the body, dance, and technologies and new media. Alcala de Henares, 19 – 23 november 2007
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.
A guide looking at body based practices, including works employing the body as an artistic tool and site of representation.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195) and the Study Room Guide on One to One Performance by Rachel Zerihan (P1320)
Captures the zeitgeist of a ravenous and distorted world, illustrating its inequalities with a straightforward rawness and elegance.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)
Neil Bartlett, what mainstream?, It's Queer Up North 1992 – 1996: A Catalogue of Queer Performance. This item is part of the Study Room Guide in Search of a Documentology by Marco Pustianaz (P1115)
Turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)