A performance-based feature film produced and filmed on location during the month-long performance walk from Northern Germany through Poland to the Russian region of Kaliningrad, in May/June 2015.
Includes feature film, trailer, poster, stills from the movie, and film description.
Exhibition catalogue. Installation concerned with the voice of the individual victim in war.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
A report on the five-year programme; the story of an undertaking that brought together art and heritage.
A detailed look at the extensive 14-18 NOW programme, which was set up to bring a creative response to the centenary of the First World War.
It examines the 'performance of extremity' as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art's most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
In exploring the human-animal relationship from the early modern period to the nineteenth century, this publication questions what it means for an animal to “perform,” examines how conceptions of this relationship have evolved over time, and explores whether and how human understanding of performance is changed by an animal’s presence.
Witchy femmes, queer conjurers, and magical rebels on summoning the power to resist.
Questions whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel. In a journey through high and low culture, the visual to the verbal, and the apolitical to the political, Nelson offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo and permissibility.
The contributors to this book, writing from a variety of subject disciplines and interests, explore a range of the uses of autobiography from the nineteenth-century to the present day, and from Africa, USA, the Middle East, France, New Zealand, as well as Britain.
Published on the occasion of the Idit Elia Natham exhibition at Standpoint Gallery, London. 16 January – 14 February 2015.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
A one hour reading of testimonies from the survivors of the armed conflict in Guatemala.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
A provocationinterested in exploring the meeting points between the obliteration of the possibility of physical motherhood (rupture of the body), a country disappearing in war (rupture of the land) and the reconstruction of the bio-political-history. Together these assert a new no-motherhood and post-motherland identity away from the exilic ruptures that define the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries in Europe.
Video: a deeply poetic array of cinematic images
A project based on a hypotethical (hypothetical and ethical) situation (political, social, military, security, natural catastrophy …) in which the citizens of highly developed countries (mainly from the West) would be forced to leave their country and look for a temporary home in another country.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Documentation from two performances, presented at Brisbane Arts (2007) and MAJU JAYA Performance Art Festival (2007).
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Volume 1, Issue 4.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The illustrated volume examines the creation of stories, accounts, images, songs, street theatre, paintings, and ideas that pay witness to authoritarian pasts.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The project received overwhelming worldwide attention and spawned provocative online debates; ultimately, Bilal was named Chicago Tribune's Artist of the Year. Structured in two parallel narratives, the story of Bilal's life journey and his Domestic Tension experience, Shoot an Iraqi is for anyone who seeks insight into the current conflict in Iraq and for those fascinated by interactive art technologies and the ever-expanding world of online gaming.
Includes: Foreign Sky, Beast of Me and Still Hear the Wound.
Catalogued with a spanned DVD.
Expanding on the ideas of double wound (Caruth) and nostalgia (Aciman), this article discusses Davis' poetic autobiographic performances as examples of the terror and relief of repeating exilic pain.
An article dissecting how arts interfere and engage with politics.
In misc folder 7.
Exploring theater works created for, by, and with refugees, this hybrid collection of essays combines newly commissioned scholarly work with examples of writing by refugees themselves.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
A series on Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. The first volume emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
How did performance artists of the ’60s and ’70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political establishment, become the foremost monument builders of the ’80s, ’90s and today? This book argues that the centrality of performance to monuments and indeed public art in general rests not on its ephemerality or anti-authoritarian rhetoric, but on its power to build interpersonal bonds both personal and social.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Combining an art project with critical commentary, Fusco addresses the role of women in the war on terror and explores how female sexuality is being used as a weapon against Islamic terrorists. Using details drawn from actual accounts of detainee treatment in US military prisons, Fusco conceives a field guide of instructional drawings that prompts questions regarding the moral dilemma of torture in general and the use of female sexuality specifically.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Assemblage reflects interdisciplinary aesthetic practices that call attention to displacement as a disruption in the continuity of place, relationships, identity, movement, memory, and time resulting in a collage of preserved artefacts and mediated possibilities.
In misc folder 7.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication.
Includes:
– Artist bio & CV
– Hermana, 2010, 1'50''
– Himenoplastia, 2004, 7'21''
– Juegos de poder, 2009, 11'10''
– La Verdad, 2013, 1:10'
– Lucha, 2002, 3'38''
– Perra, 2005, 5'31''
Critically engaging with examples of stage combat, rape, terrorism, wrestling and historical re-enactments, Nevitt argues that studying violence through theatre can be part of a desire to create a more peaceful world.
Short and long trailer for Performing Rights, a festival of creative dialogues between artists, academics, activists, and audiences investigating relationships between human rights and performance.
Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as they themselves would have recounted it.
This book contains the narrative text of those ten oral histories in both English and spoken Arabic, as well as an an introduction by the artist, and illustrations of the audience experience in Gardens Speak.
Pack of cards, featuring officials of the self proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic.
Larger cards are used in the eponymous performance.
Exhibition catalogue. 18 September – 12 October 2014. Curated by Clemens Poole.
In Ukranian and English.
A curated program of temporary public art installations throughout the city of Kyiv, challenging artists and viewers to creatively address the changing physical, emotional, and social concepts of occupation.
A book on Galindo’s performance work. Text in Italian, Spanish and English.
An extended interview with artist and Iraq war veteran Aaron Hughes
Exhibition catalogue, explores the relationship between technology, machines and the Bauhaus Stage. Contributors: Hortensia Volckers, Alexander Farenholtz, Philipp Oswalt, Juliet Koss, Sascha Forster, Peter W. Marx, Joachim Krausse, Gabriele Brandstetter, Jienne Liu, Karin Harrasser
A historical introduction to the life and art of Joseph Beuys.
Video document of performance. The Post War Orchestra is a growing ensemble of musical instruments made from recycled military equipment by Hilary Champion: devices once designed to maim and kill could be recycled and turned into musical instruments.
Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Sina for Performa 09. Written in French and English
Photographs and notes about Colombians fleeing their homes in 2003 as civil war sweeps the country.
This anthology of essays, images and dialogues exploring contemporary art’s engagements with risk–physical, social, political and aesthetic–brings readers into the conference from which the book takes its title, a third annual collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Southern California Consortium of Art Schools (SoCCAS).
Documentation of a speech given by Peter Hewitt. 18 March 2002.
Part of the ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’, documentation of key works, and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.
‘Talking Heads’ are short presentations by artists to camera about their practice and approaches to making. The ‘Talking Heads’ films are part of the Agency’s ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, which consists of an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’ films, documentation of artists’ works and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.
Exhibition publication, 2 Oct 2009 – 25 Oct 2009, Transition Gallery, London.
A video-lecture, a playful complex analysis of the use and misuse of images for political and ideological purposes in Lebanon and the Middle East
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).