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Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure
The author draws on her experience as both a theatre actor and a university professor whose teachings in the art of acting rely heavily on her own experience and also on her philosophical knowledge.
Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in Contemporary Dance and Performance
Illuminates the relationship between philosophy and experimental choreographic practice today in the works of leading European choreographers.
Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists
Analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in late-medieval France and the twenty-first century, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. Boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order.
Mythologies
A collection of essays exploring the myths of mass culture,
You ought not to be obsessed with the idea you have to intervene on every subject at every moment
Interview with Jacques Rancière.
Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles
Interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Theatres of Learning Disability: Good, Bad, or Plain Ugly?
The first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The Liminal Eye
Discusses interrelations between painting and video art. Argues that once the surface of the painting is thought of in relation to the membrane of the eye as if the painting’s surface were part of the eye itself, the painting’s surface would have to be thought of as a membrane of visible excitation that is hard to separate from vision.
Impossible Glossary
What do we understand by collaborative artistic practices in Spain? After three years of research, this publication bears witness to the diversity of points of view and opinions by Spanish artists and key agents working in this field.
The aim in bringing these voices together in a single publication is that they will add to the already existing discussion in English and will influence future theoretical discourses more broadly.
