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A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning

Editor: Matthew Appleton, Marcus Coates, Gavin Everall | Reference: P3670 | ISBN: 9781906012618 | Type: Publication

Using a series of exercises and increasingly in depth ‘trips’, the book sets out clear and concise steps to enable individuals and groups to access their imagination and unconscious reason, to work on behalf of others. Using a series of exercises such as ‘Becoming a Bat’, ‘Crawling’, ‘Draw a Sound’ and ‘Impersonating a Human’, Marcus Coates has developed his own practical techniques to solve problems that we might otherwise remain dumbfounded by.

In the glass cabinet.

The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression

Artist/Author: Christine Ross | Reference: P3653 | ISBN: 978-0816645398 | Type: Publication

Shows how contemporary art is a powerful yet largely unacknowledged player in the articulation of depression in Western culture, both adopting and challenging scientific definitions of the condition. Ross explores the ways in which contemporary art performs the detached aesthetics of depression, exposing the viewer's loss of connection and ultimately redefining the function of the image. 

The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary

Editor: Fiona Slater | Reference: P3623 | ISBN: 9781527220454

Celebrates the ten year anniversary of Shape Arts’ award, set up in memory of the sculptor.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

 

The Raft: Art is (Not) Lonely

Editor: Jan Fabre, Joanna De Vos | Reference: P3617 | ISBN: 978-9401448611 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue; 22/10/2017 – 15/04/2018. The exhibition was a follow-up of The SEA – salut d’honneur Jan Hoet (2015).

Over There: A Queer Anthology of Joy

Editor: Richard Dodwell | Reference: P3631 | Type: Publication

What is joy? Is joy possible in the world today? If so, how do queer people imagine or experience it? Over 30 writers, artists and performers consider queer joy.
 

The Magic Forest

Artist/Author: AA Bronson | Reference: P3603 | Type: Publication

A collection of black and white photographs of the wooded area between the Fire Island communities of Cherry Grove and The Pines.

Enduring Creation: Art, Pain, and Fortitude

Artist/Author: Nigel Spivey | Reference: P3595 | ISBN: 978-0520230224 | Type: Publication

Nigel Spivey takes on one of the greatest taboos in Western culture in this original work of cultural history: why is so much pain depicted in the art of the West?

Histories of Performance Documentation: Museum, Artistic, and Scholarly Practices

Editor: Gabriella Giannachi, Jonah Westerman | Reference: P3580 | ISBN: 978-1138184145 | Type: Publication

Traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards, considering the unique challenges of documenting live events.