The first in Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood.
From the original iconic trans woman who has reigned over New York nightlife for three decades, comes a gorgeous, poignant, full-color memoir.
The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Exhibition catalogue: The Rochester Contemporary, 30/4-23/5 2004. Includes reproductions of artwork, critical essays and fiction.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Explores the experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant. Performace text.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Foucault's The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado's diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.
An extract of an action performed in Peru as part of CAUTION in July 2011.
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While spinning her naked, masked body on a stage to Chaka Khan’s famous anthem, Narcissister redresses herself from clothing she pulls out of various bodily orifices.
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A detailed study of the role women artists played in the develpment and expansion of performance art
From 1972-1991, Eleanor Antin created multiple personae of different genders, races, professions, historical contexts and geographical locations. This book, issued in conjunction with a 2013 exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, explores these works
A collection of essays on the installation and performance work of Cuban artist Tania Bruguera. Contributors: Domenico Scudero, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Irma Arestizabal, Roberto Pinto, Simonetta Lux
Sophie Calle's project Double Game interweaves the artist's life with that of Maria, a character in Paul Auster's novel 'Leviathan', blurring the lines between reality and fiction. Second edition
Accompanies the 2014 retrospective of Vlasta Delimar's work at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
A description of more than 60 projects from the last ten years, following the personal journey of the performer
With texts by Victor Burgin, Rosalind coward, John Forrester, Rosemary Gordon, Mary Kelly, Julia Kristeva, Toril Moi, Laura Mulvey, Kathy Myers, Riccardo Steiner.
Journal discussing Feminist Aesthetics. Key Articles: María Laura Rosa 'Our bodies, our history: Mujeres Públicas's activism in the city of Buenos Aires' Veeranganakumari Solanki 'Aesthetics and Identities: interview with Reena Saini Kallat' Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez 'Questions and Answers: interview with Lani Maestro' Anna Bunting-Branch and Rose Garrard ''Frames of Reference' Rose Garrard: Interview' Ming Turner 'Quasi-skin and post-human: Lin Pey Chwen's Eve Clone series, Bracha L. Ettinger 'Artists' Pages' Carol Archer 'Womanly Blooms: Cai Jin's Beauty Banana Plant Paintings' Marta Cenini 'Coco Fusco's Room:Rethinking Feminism after Guantanamo' Christine Conley 'Making Space for Utopia, FAG and the Aesthetics of Activism: Christine Conley interviews Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Katy Deepwell 'Re.act Feminism: feminist, gender-critical and trans-gender performance art: Katy Deepwell interviews Bettina Knaup and Beatrice E. Stammer' Maria Photiou 'The Green Line: Greek Cypriot Women Artists' Politicised Practices, Lia Lapithi and Marianna Christofides' Women on the Verge, Duba' Women Artists at Manifesta, Genk, Women Artists at Arsenale, Kiev Women Artists at Documenta 13, Kassel.
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Catalogue from the Gillian Wearing exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery London 2012 providing an overview of the artists works from 1992-2010. See also: D1856 Gillian Wearing DVD
this is a leaflet to accompany the performance
In March 2016 the Hear Me Roar! Festival invited LADA to curate a small selection of items for a Pop-up Study Room during the Festival. Hear Me Roar! is a festival of feminist arts in Lancaster. In 2016 the theme was Ages, Stages and Phases celebrating feminist art across the generations.
LADA Anthologies are themed collections of performance documentation and works for camera that the Agency has been invited to curate for public programmes in the UK and internationally.
Drawing on materials housed in LADA’s Study Room and documentation publicly available online, the materials were originally presented as illustrated talks, then catalogued as LADA Anthologies.