On Mendieta's late 70s series, in which the artist trekked into the woods and marked the outlines of her body agains the earth.
Asks whether, and how, it is possible to re-appropriate pornography and think through it critically and creatively for a project of liberation.
Combining intrepid journalism with her own personal experience, Abraham question what it means to be queer in 2019.
Examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism.
Project zines; Fierce, intimate oral histories, collaborative stories, D.I.Y. research and interviews from people at the intersection of several kinds of marginalisation.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Reframes Live Art practice, adopting the handy neologism gen-age, to describe the intersection of gender and age.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? This book argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the ‘homophobic migrant’ who is rendered by society as hateful, homophobic and disposable.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
A series of contributions to a one-day conference by the Baring Foundation and Cubitt in 2014.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Recording a series of events held in London and Edinburgh in July and August 2016 celebrating the work of women using walking in their practice.
On three artists taking part in the Trans Time exhibition at Confluences Gallery in Paris: JJ Levine, Kama La Mackerel, and Ianna Book.
A disturbingly beautiful freak show, a queer menagerie of carnivalesque contortion and florid fantasy.
Directed by Sam Williams.
23'09''
Documentation from a full-length dance-theatre piece created in collaboration with Biño Sauitzvy.
Directed by Judy Jacobs.
10'25''
A five-minute performance piece mixing movement and lipsynching.
Directed by Sam Williams.
6'15''
This engaging study examines the issue of crisis in European performance since the collapse of global financial markets in 2008. The book’s chapters examine diverse performances of crisis primarily in three cities with a loaded past and present for Europe, as idea and geopolitical reality: London, Athens and Berlin.
This provocative event slips between testimony and reflection, emotion and medicine, flesh and technology to contemplate our abiding fascination with what lies under our skin.
2007; 25:23
Includes company interviews on politics and arts with individual artists and a blog post, The Plight of the Black Artist: The residency industry, by Zinzi Minott.
Nando Messias engages with representations of effeminate men and the queer body.
6:15
On Monday 28 May 2012, Noëmi Lakmaier undertook a slow and exhausting test of endurance – an attempt to crawl from Toynbee Studios towards ‘The Gherkin’.
Film: Hydar Dewachi. 14:39
Beginning with discussions of the pioneering generation of artists such as Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling, Chambers candidly discusses the problems and progression of several generations, including contemporary artists such as Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare.
The first publication to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual arts, including new media, installation and performance art. Despite the crucial contribution of considerations of 'queer' to feminism in other disciplines of the humanities, and the strong impact of feminist art history on queer visual theory, a visible and influential queer feminist art history has remained elusive.
Video recordings of two performances presented as part an extensive programme curated by Lois Keidan and Aaron Wright (Live Art Development Agency) entitled “Just Like A Woman”, composed of lectures, performances, readings, installations, screenings, workshops and debates on performance of identity, is fully dedicated to the impact of performance on feminist histories and the contribution of artists to discourses around contemporary gender politics. From the 19th edition of the City of Women (Mesto žensk) festival – 2-13 October 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia – entitled “Let’s create a place for ourselves” on public space and politics.
Drawing on archival materials and in-depth interviews, Mayer's book opens up historical, political and cultural vistas to give a full account of feminist filmmaker Sally Potter's career.
This book gathers key perspectives on Back to Back Theatre and the company's most influential shows
A look back on the challenges encountered by the curators of VITAL and Vital Signs, a three-month contemporary arts festival and a one-day symposium held in Nottingham.
Being Seen Being Heard, Symposium at Sacred: Keeping the Faith, festival at Chelsea Theatre, London, 24-28 November 2011.
Being Seen Being Heard, Symposium at Sacred: Keeping the Faith, festival at Chelsea Theatre, London, 24-28 November 2011.
Being Seen Being Heard, Symposium at Sacred: Keeping the Faith, festival at Chelsea Theatre, London, 24-28 November 2011.
Being Seen Being Heard, Symposium at Sacred: Keeping the Faith, festival at Chelsea Theatre, London, 24-28 November 2011.
Invites the audience into the depths of the surface-oriented world of the performer, where the personal and the material are mutually imminent, where style is content, the ‘how’ is inseparable from the ‘what’, and the difference between fiction and reality is irrelevant.
See Also: Big Girls Do Big Things (D1751)
An analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433) and the Study Room Guide in Search of a Documentology by Marco Pustianaz (P1115) and the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)
Interview.