Exhibition catalogue. Since the early 1980s, Chinese society has been reconstructed at a furious pace. The works presented here are concerned with the artists’ surrounding society and environment, as well as the question of how to establish a connection with the world ‘here and now’. Besides articles studying the various issues concerning the development of contemporary Chinese art, this publication also provides an introduction to each of the participating artists. In Chinese and English.

With texts by Victor Burgin, Rosalind coward, John Forrester, Rosemary Gordon, Mary Kelly, Julia Kristeva, Toril Moi, Laura Mulvey, Kathy Myers, Riccardo Steiner.

Video document by Jonathan Sammon, sound by Trevor Knight.

Dance, family, text, pop music, choreography, sexual, provoked, performance art interdisciplinary, private, public, Sex, violence, humour, female body, feminism, movement, gender, autobiography, video, porn

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)

Feature-length documentary film following Marina Abramovic as she prepares for a major retrospective of her work, taking place at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Trashing Performance event programme. In miscellaneous folder 3.

Thirty texts written by Suzanne Lacy since 1974.