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The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

Artist/Author: Guerrilla Girls | Reference: P3291 | ISBN: 978-0140259971 | Type: Publication

Take a romp through the last two thousand years of Western Art and find out the real who, what, when, and why of art history.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

 

Drunken Boat: Art Rebellion Anarchy

Editor: Max Blechman | Reference: P3281 | ISBN: 978-1570270024 | Type: Publication

Collection of essays on art and anarchism.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Empty Stages, Crowded Flats: Performativity as Curatorial Strategy

Editor: Florian Malzacher and Joanna Warsza | Reference: P3272 | ISBN: 978-3-89581-443-3 | Type: Publication

Investigates an array of staged situations, from choreographed exhibitions, immaterial museums, theatres of negotiation, and discursive marathons, to street carnivals and subversive public-art projects, and asks how ‘theatre-like’ strategies and techniques can in fact enable ‘reality making’ situations in art, and how, as a consequence, curating itself becomes staged, dramatised, choreographed, and composed.

I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME

Editor: Amelia Beavis-Harrison | Reference: P3264 | ISBN: 978-82-690675-0-7 | Type: Publication

Part project part catalogue: split into three distinct sections the book brings together artists and academics to explore the impact of gentrification and the possibility of resistance.

Gustav Metzger: Act or Perish! - A Retrospective

Editor: NERO | Reference: P3261 | ISBN: 978-8897503873 | Type: Publication

Accompanies the first extensive overview of Auto-Destructive art pioneer, organized in 2015–16 at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Kunsthall Oslo and Stiftelsen Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.

Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983

Artist/Author: Tim Lawrence | Reference: P3252 | ISBN: 978-0822362029 | Type: Publication

Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification.

Relational Aesthetics

Artist/Author: Nicolas Bourriaud | Reference: P3262 | ISBN: 978-2840660606 | Type: Publication

Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.

Dark Habits

Editor: Bren O’Callaghan and Sarah Perks | Reference: P3238 | ISBN: 9780993591235 | Type: Publication

Challenging and re-positioning the traditional exhibition catalogue as an artwork and commission in its own right, the pub;ication takes its inspiration from the classic Pedro Almodóvar film on the occasion of the group exhibition, La Movida at HOME, Manchester (14 April – 17 July 2017).