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In Place of a Show
An account of Western theatre buildings in the 21st century: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished.
Performance and the Global City
The book explores what it means to create and experience urban performance – as both an aesthetic and a political practice – in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.
Czech Action Art
Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain
Action Art, similar to performance art but not requiring an audience, emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. Until now this movement has received little critical attention, as the Iron Curtain prevented its dissemination to an international audience.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Testo Junkie : Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic
Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado’s diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.
Mobile Album International: performance, body, fiction
The third issue of the French-American magazine of creation and reflexion is devoted to performance art.
Bilingual (English / French); texts in German and Spanish.
Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds
*currently unavailable*
This collection of essays explores contemporary manifestations of extraterritoriality and the diverse ways in which the concept has been put to use in various disciplines.
herbst: Theorie zur Praxis 2015
Festival book; 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 the festival’s leitmotif, “Back to the Future”, essays, reports or series of pictures.
Festival dates: 25 September – 18 October 2015.
Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practice
Theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance.
Audience Participation in Theatre: Aesthetics of the Invitation
This book presents a theory of audience participation in the theatre, based on the importance of the moment of invitation and how an event changes character when such an invitation is made.
Theatre and The Body
Drawing on many examples from contemporary performance, this book is a provocative starting point for understanding the surprisingly complex relationship between theatre and the body. Foreword by Marina Abramovic.
