Gut Reactions: Watch, Read, Chat
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- Date
- 29 Sep 2016 - 15 Dec 2016
- Address
Live Art Development Agency
The White Building
Unit 7, Queen’s Yard
White Post Lane
London
E9 5EN- Price
- Free, but limited capacity so please reserve a space
As part of our Study Room Ambassador scheme LADA is delighted to host a series of Study Room Sessions with Phoebe Patey-Ferguson.
The Sessions will run from 6-9pm every Thursday from 29 September until Thursday 15 December (excluding Thursday 10 November)
Each week will draw on LADA's Study Room holdings to look at the work of an artist, or an art movement, and explore the artists and cultural changes they have inspired.
The Sessions will have a particular focus on performances and related events that have been controversial – works that have been accompanied by scandal, censorship, obscenity charges, moral panic and taboo or stigma. Each Session will explore how these groundbreaking works have led the way for significant cultural, social, political and artistic developments.
Featured artists will include: Jack Smith, John Waters, Ron Vawter, Cockettes, Carolee Schneemann, Bobby Baker, Ann Liv Young, Coco Fusco, Johanna Went, Lois Weaver, Laurie Anderson, Penny Arcade, Vaginal Davis, Annie Sprinkle, Rocio Boliver, Rasheed Araeen, William Pope.L, George Chakravarthi, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Throbbing Gristle, Anne Bean, Oleg Kulik, Leigh Bowery, Franko B, Ron Athey, Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose, Karen Finley, Pussy Riot… and many more
This is an opportunity to take some time to watch and read about some of the most important works made by artists in the past fifty years, in a relaxed and open environment.
The sessions are guided by Dominic Johnson’s Culture Wars module at Queen Mary University
Please note: Events are free but there is a limited capacity for each session so reservation is essential.
Programme Info
More information and dates for the 2017 Gut Reactions can be found here.
Past Events
29 September: Weekly Meditations for Living Dysfunctionally, an introduction
Introduction to the Study Room
Watch and read a selection of our favourite Study Room materials.
6 October: Flaming Creatures: queer collectives, pornography and trash
Watch:
Mary Jordan, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (extracts from)
Roy Vawter, Roy Cohn/jack Smith
The Cockettes (extracts from)
Jennie Livingstone, Paris is Burning (extracts from)
Jeffrey Schwarz, I am Divine (extracts from)
David Hoyle, Magazine: 10 Live Performance Essays by David Hoyle (extracts from)
Dressed as a Girl (extracts from)
Read:
Dominic Johnson, Glorious Catastrophes
Jack Smith, Ronald Tavel, Charles Ludlam, Kenneth Bernard, Theatre of the Ridiculous
Edward Leffingwell, J.Haberman, Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool: the Writings of Jack Smith
Gray Watson, Art and Sex
Ingrid Moessinger, Andy Warhol: Death and Disaster
John Waters, Shock Value
Fablo Cleto, Camp
13 October: Total SCUM: feminism and its controversies
Watch:
!Women Art Revolution DVD
Ann Liv Young, Sherry and Naomi
Lauren Barri Holstein, How 2 Become 1
Coco Fusco, I Like Girls in Uniform
Bobby Baker, How to Shop
Read:
Are We There Yet? Study Room Guide on Live Art and Feminism and associated materials
20 October: History is a Weapon: Black revolutionary artists
Watch:
Vaginal Davis, Trashing Performance, The White to be Angry, Black Fag
Rajni Shah, Dinner With America, Three Short Films about Dinner with America
Isaac Julien, Looking for Langston
William Pope.L, Live Culture: Performance and the Contemporary
George Chakravarthi, Unseen
Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Gustavo Vazquez, Homo Fronterizus
Papo Colo, There is No Place Like Home
Lorraine O’Grady, Anthology [youtube]
Maaike Bleeker, Wafaa Bilal, Performing Idea: Reciprocal Aesthetics
Read:
Eddie Chambers, Black Artists in British Art
The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Responsibility
E. Patrick Johnson, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Blacktino Queer Performance
Uri McMillan, Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Tereasa A. Carbone, Kellie Jones et al, Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties
Catherine Ugwu, Let’s Get it On: The Politics of Black Performance
Josė Esteban Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
27 October: Girls Invented Punk Rock Not England
Listen:
Marcia Farquar, Juke Box
Watch:
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Derek Jarman, The Super 8 Programme vol.1
Tetine Experimental Video Compilation
Johanna Went, Knifeboxing [D1810]
Isaac Julien, Young Soul Rebels
Patti Smith, Dream of Life
Bow Gamelan, Bow Gamelan Collection Disc 1
Minty ,Open Wide
Jamie McMurry, Tire Swing
Read:
Anne Bean, Hydar Dewachi, Rachel Withers WAKE
Lydia Lunch, V.Vale
Diamanda Galas, The Shit of God
Simon Ford, Wreckers of Civilisation
Steven Hager, Art After Midnight: The East Village Scene
1 December: Ron Athey
Watch:
Ron Athey, Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance
Read:
Dominic Johnson, Pleading in the Blood: The art and performances of Ron Athey
Fintan Walksh, Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis
Robin Spalding Why is the Work of Ron Athey and Hermann Nitsch Useful to Society?
Dominic Johnson, The Art of Living: An oral history of performance art
8 December: The Fierceness of Franko B
Watch:
Franko B, Aktion 398
Oleg Kulik, Exposition and Performance
Valie Export, 3 Experimental Short Films
David Wojnarowicz, itsofomo & Optic Nerve
15 December: Girls Invented Punk Rock Not England
Listen:
Marcia Farquar, Juke Box
Watch:
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Derek Jarman, The Super 8 Programme vol.1
Johanna Went, Knifeboxing [D1810]
Isaac Julien, Young Soul Rebels
Minty, Open Wide
Jamie McMurry, Tire Swing
Read:
Anne Bean, Hydar Dewachi, Rachel Withers WAKE
Lydia Lunch, V.Vale
Diamanda Galas, The Shit of God
Simon Ford, Wreckers of Civilisation
Steven Hager, Art After Midnight: The East Village Scene
Banner image credit:
Guillermo Gomez Pena, Live Culture. image by Hugo Glendinning
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