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Not Just a Mirror: Looking for the Political Theatre of Today
The publication is comprised of eight essays, two interviews, and 15 case studies of political theatre makers, and investigates the performing arts as a political laboratory of the present. It explores how theatre, dance, and performance reveal their essential agnosticism, provoking the potential to actively change society rather than merely serving as a cover-up for the dysfunctions, fractures, and wounds of society.
Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings
Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow’s project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art’s participatory strategies.
Public Sphere by Performance
A critical discussion of the public sphere in the current neoliberal capitalist democracy from the perspective of performance.
The School of Public Life: Doormats No. 4
Drawing on two decades of interventions in politics and culture, The School of Public Life records the author’s efforts to revive and rethink public space from Los Angeles to Berlin and beyond.
Playing by the Rules: Alternative Thinking/ Alternative Spaces
The perceived rules of the development and running of alternative spaces, and where those rules came from, are among the questions answered by the authors. The underlying message in the publication is the importance of critical thinking as well as the need for alternative thinking.
New medium, old archives? Exploring archival potential in The Live Art Collection of the UK Web Arch
This article speculates about the new kinds of historical information that performance scholars may be able to preserve as a result of recent innovations in web archiving.
How We Teach Performance Art: University Courses and Workshop Syllabus
A collection of courses and syllabi for reference when teaching performance and live art practices.
Sonic Somatic: Peformances of the Unsound Body
Investigates sound art and its various manifestations through historical, theoretical, polemical and critical analyses of artistic, musical and literary works
What The Butler Saw: Selected Writings by Stuart Morgan
Contains essays and interviews by late leading art critic Stuart Morgan with a foreward by Thomas McEvilley
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance
Investigates the extent to which performance can represent the ‘unrepresentable’ of trauma.
Acts and Apparitions: Discourses on the Real in Performance Practice and Theory, 1990-2010
Examines how contemporary performance practices have been driven by questions of The Real and the consequent political implications of the concept’s disintigrating authority.
Performing presence: Between the live and the simulated
Poses questions over the nature of action, identity and the self in the relationship with media forms.
