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Documenting Performance
The first book to provide a collection of key writings about the process of documenting performance, focused not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance.
Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism
In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Sholette engages in critical dialogue with artists’ collectives, counter-institutions, and activist groups to offer an insightful, firsthand account of the relationship between politics and art in neoliberal society.
A Good Night Out: Popular Theatre; Audience, Class and Form
The classic manifesto on popular theatre by the founder of the 7:84 Theatre Companies. Looking at the ways different classes take their entertainment, he puts the case for what theatre could be doing for the populace instead of walling itself up in subsidised fortresses for the well-to-do.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)
Performance in Place of War
The book looks at theatre and performances that often occur quite literally as bombs are falling, as well as during times of ceasefire and in the aftermath of hostilities. Includes interviews with artists, short play extracts, and photographs.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Immersive, verbatim & immersively verbatim
Reviews from New York: Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), The Sound and the Fury (Elevator Repair Service), Argument Sessions (Ilana Baker)
The global politics of the stage
Review of LIFT 2014.
Hybrid collection
All issues (pilot-6) of the “international cross-artform bi-monthly”.
Extravagant Bodies: Crime and Punishment
Festival programme; in Croatian and English.
Festival dates: 18-25 November 2016 (Zagreb). 20-21 November 2016 (Belgrade), December 2016 (Skopje), May 2017 (London).
new territories programme
Programme for the international festival of live arts, incorporating the National Review of Live Art (NRLA); 3/2-15/3 2003. Includes Adrian Heathfield on Goat Island, Lois Keidan on live art platforms and Marianne van Kerkhoven on Raimund Hoghe.
Third Area: A Feminist Reading of Performance at London’s ICA in the 1970s
A PhD thesis offering a new account of the emergence of performance forms, including Happenings, participatory art, performance art and performances for the camera, in visual art and related contexts at the ICA.
Collected Works for Performance
Inckudes: A Conversation With My Father, Songs for Breaking Britain, Equations for a Moving Body.
A Slice of Life
A collection of contemporary food writing by a star cast of authors, including Nigella Lawson, Anthony Bourdain, Jane Grigson, Umberto Eco, Alice Walker, and Isabel Allende.
