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To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance
The author’s concerns – which include the social meaning of illusion and the cultural manifestation of power – take the reader from Eleanora Duse to Laurie Anderson; from the puppet theatre of Kleist to Kantor’s theatre of the dead; and from the Kutiyattam temple dancers in Kerala to Womanhouse in Los Angeles.
The Body in Film
Catalogue to accompany a film series held at the Art Gallery of Ontario (1989).
Shy Radicals: The Anti-systemic Politics of the Introvert Militant
This anti-systemic manifesto, a quiet and thoughtful polemic, is a satire that uses anti-colonial theory to build a critique of dominant culture and the rising tide of Islamophobia.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
John Latham: A World View
Catalogue published to accompany the Serpentine Galleries Spring Season exhibitions (2 March – 21 May 2017).
Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution
Initially galvanized by the sweeping obliteration of architecture and art under the Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and eastern bloc countries, Gamboni investigates other instances of destroyed art and architecture around the globe, uncovering a disquieting and surprisingly widespread phenomenon.
Choreo-Graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line
Stages a beyond-disciplinary, inter-subjective encounter between the lines of choreography, drawing and writing, for exploring those forms of thinking-feeling-knowing produced through collaborative exchange, in the slippage and deviation as different modes of practice enter into dialogue, overlap, collide.
Against The Romance Of Community
Explores sites where the ideal of community relentlessly recurs, from debates over art and culture in the popular media, to the discourses and practices of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, to contemporary narratives of economic transformation or “globalization.”
Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience
Explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a more inclusive, expansive history of bioart, namely: home economics; the feminist art of the 1970s; tissue culture methodologies; domestic computing; and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.
Politics of affection and uneasiness
From the Dance and Politics edition. In Slovenian and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture
Despite the problematic politics of cultural exchange in the theatre, interculturalism is not a one-sided process. Using the metaphor of the hourglass to discuss the transfer between source and target culture, Pavis asks what happens when the hourglass is turned upside down, when the `foreign’ culture speaks for itself.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Nurtured by Knowledge: Learning to Do Participatory Action Research
Examines the frustrations and limitations of conventional Western academic research on social change and describes the struggle to fashion a new approach based on the principle that people have a universal right to participate in the production of knowledge that directly affects their lives.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Issue 4
Volume 1, Issue 4.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
