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A Field Guide for Female Interrogators

Artist/Author: Coco Fusco | Reference: P3120 | ISBN: 978-1583227800 | Type: Publication

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).

Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication

Artist/Author: Arndt Niebisch | Reference: P3103 | ISBN: 978-1137276858 | Type: Publication

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.

Assemblage: An Art Series on Identity, Memory, and Displacement

Editor: Nisha Sajnani | Reference: A0709 | Type: Article

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).

Regina José Galindo documentation

Digital Reference: EF5232 | Type: Digital File

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''

Theatre and Violence

Artist/Author: Lucy Nevitt | Reference: P3006 | ISBN: 978-1137302274 | Type: Publication

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.

PSI#12 documentation

Digital Reference: EF5224 | Type: Digital File

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.

The House of Cards

Artist/Author: Serhii Zakharov | Reference: P2929 | Type: Publication

Pack of cards, featuring officials of the self proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic. 

Larger cards are used in the eponymous performance.

ZAHOPLENNYA

Reference: P2928 | Type: Publication

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.

Gardens Speak

Artist/Author: Tania El Khoury | Reference: P2938 | ISBN: 978-1-939067-20-3 | Type: Publication

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.

 

Regina José Galindo

Artist/Author: Regina José Galindo | Reference: P2605 | ISBN: 978-88-6057-009-3 | Type: Publication

A book on Galindo’s performance work. Text in Italian, Spanish and English.

Temporary Conversations: Aaron Hughes

Artist/Author: Aaron Hughes | Reference: P2481 | Type: Publication

An extended interview with artist and Iraq war veteran Aaron Hughes

Human Space Machine: Stage Experiments at the Bauhaus

Editor: Torsten Blume, Christian Hillier, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation | Reference: P2463 | ISBN: 9783944669229 | Type: Publication

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

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