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herbst: Theorie zur Praxis 2016
Festival book; unlike a programme, it sets out in search of a different kind of closeness – and finds it through contributions written by programmed artists, artist portraits, theoretical comments dealing with this year’s leitmotif, “Wir schaffen das”, essays, reports or series of pictures.
Festival dates: 23 September – 16 October 2015.
In English and German.
In the Flow
Groys explores art in the age of the thingless medium, the internet. He claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura, digital production generates aura without objects, transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present.
Performing Borders: A Study Room Guide on physical and conceptual borders within Live Art.
Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments
Highlighting mothers’ lived experiences, this collection examines mothers’ creativity and agency as they perform in everyday life: in mothering, in activism, and in the arts.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Feminist Art and the Maternal
The first work to critically examine the dilemmas and promises of representing feminist motherhood in contemporary art and visual culture.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)Ethics
A feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance
Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, examining this relationship through five ‘singularities’ in contemporary dance: thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity.
So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.
Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979
The book explores the textual work of Art & Language, Victor Burgin and others; the New Sculpture being produced by those such as Richard Long and Michael Craig-Martin; and the artists who addressed society and politics, including Stephen Willats and Margaret Harrison.
On the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, April-August 2016.
The Art of Being Many: Towards a New Theory and Practice of Gathering
This volume is inspired and informed by the square-squattings and neighborhood assemblies of the “real democracy” movements as well as by recent explorations of the assembly form in performance art and participatory theater.
Blacktino Queer Performance
The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices.
