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Miranda July’s Intermedial Art: The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism
The first in-depth study of July’s work provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class.
Engaging Performance: Theatre as call and response
Presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine “socially engaged performance.” It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects.
I Hate America! (I Love America) - documentation
Clip from 10 hours of live continuous conversation between participants in London and Chicago compressed to 30 minutes. Participants discussed one of the five topics addressed in the question “Who Owns Myth, Pop, Money, Race, and Terror in the Land of the Free?”.
Part of DIY 13.
30:47
Jarman (All This Maddening Beauty) and Other Plays
A collection of three life performance texts by the OBIE Award winning playwright. Includes: JARMAN (all this maddening beauty), Carthage/Cartagena, The Orphan Sea and essays.
Performance and the Global City
The book explores what it means to create and experience urban performance – as both an aesthetic and a political practice – in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.
Sudden as a Massacre
A site-specific installation, video, and performance-based project for TBA:11. In a private performance for the camera, a quintet of women tear apart an enormous cube comprising more than5,050 pounds of wet clay. As the block disappears, the space becomes covered in the evidence of action.
Clips; 1:48
I Hate America! (I Love America): Who Owns Myth, Pop, Money, Race & Terror in the Land of the Free
Video from a six-month collaboration and conversation between artists in the UK and the US which culminated on November 30, 2013 in concurrent daylong events in London and Chicago.
Part of DIY 13; project developed by Lucky Pierre.
1:59:41
Knifeboxing conversation
Conversation between Johann Went and Mark Wheaton to accompany thescreening of 'Knifeboxing' on LADA Screens which was online from 29 March – 11 April 2016.
In misc folder 5A.
ASCO Elite of the Obscure
Catalogue from the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco. Exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (September – December 2011) and Williams College Museum of Art (February – July, 2012).
Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance
Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights.
Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists
This book brings to light the historical significance of five women artists – Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and Shigeko Kubota, who were among the first Japanese women to leave their country – and its male-dominated, conservative art world – to explore the artistic possibilities in New York.
Building an Island
Acconci’s Mur Island in Graz forges a closer bond between life on the river and in the two halves of the city. The book documents the different stages of the design, and places sketches and computer simulations next to remarkable photographs of models as well as shots of the finished island. An interview with Vito Acconci and a presentation of the diverse work by the Acconci Studio round off the book. In German and English.
