After the leading organisations of radical sexual politics imploded or dissolved, the Gay Left Collective formed a research group to make sense of the changing terrain of sexuality and politics. Its goal was to formulate a rigorous Marxist analysis of sexual oppression, while linking the struggle against homophobia with a wider array of struggles, all under the banner of socialism.
Combining the energy of the early seventies feminist movement with the perceptive analyses of the trained theorist, this is one of the most influential socialist feminist statements of its time.
What do we understand by collaborative artistic practices in Spain? After three years of research, this publication bears witness to the diversity of points of view and opinions by Spanish artists and key agents working in this field.
The aim in bringing these voices together in a single publication is that they will add to the already existing discussion in English and will influence future theoretical discourses more broadly.
The art of sloth and reverie as oppositional (in)activities.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project, interrogating how re-‘creation’ impacts the creative process.
Short video made for the DIY 13 project, a briefly-lived modelling agency set upon depicting the fantasy-fiction average lifestyle that is celebrated in corporate imagery
Publication documenting a project in which three artists took up paid, part-time employment.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Analyzes artistic performances, social performances, archival remains, and memoirs of the underground theater scene in 1960s New York.
This book examines the recent changes in the labour of an artist and addresses them from the perspective of performance.
This article considers a constellation of works the artist Kira O’Reilly has created in residencies in biology laboratories over the past several years.
Special Issue; Volume 25, Issue 3.
SHIFTwork is the collective name for a series of commissioned performances which focused on the physical act and process of painting as a form of performance art. This catalogue documents the first collaboration, 'Cathedral of Joy', occurred with New York artist Fritz Welsh on a series of paintings in full view of the public whereby the gallery became a public studio revealing in real time and on continuous webcam transmission what is ordinarily the private practice of painting.
Documentation of the event as part of the programme of the At Your Service exhibition at The David Roberts Art Foundation looking at the ways in which artists use ideas of service and labour as creative strategies, and considered the ethics of recruiting the labour of others in works of art.
A journey through the Industrial Revolution investigating what remains in the present day from that period
Interview with Katerina Seda in The Believer Magazine about her practice. This article can be found in miscellaneous article folder number 3
Based on a performance art opera by artist Mikhail Karikis, this film is a poignant political allegory while being an audiovisual feast constructed around Karikis's menacing sound, under David Bickerstaff's direction and arresting cinematography.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
documentation of the event as part of the programme of the At Your Service exhibition at The David Roberts Art Foundation – also look at P1273 for the paper written by Mary Paterson and presented at the event
paper written by Mary Paterson, presented at the event as part of the programme of the At Your Service exhibition at The David Roberts Art Foundation – also look at D1194, documentation of the event