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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.
The Ethics of Art: Ecological Turns in the Performing Arts
Attempts to describe how artistic imagination can produce new situations, based on the potentials of the singular ‘body’ within its environment.
Trans-global readings: Crossing theatrical boundaries
Gathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work. Contributors: Tim Etchells, Rinde Eckert, Richard Foreman, Peter Gabriel, David Greig, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Phelim McDermott, Peter Sellars
