A lost dance. A lost show. A story. Dee Jumbie Dance: A Resurrection is based on Jamal Gerald’s work and research for JUMBIE, a performance aiming to resurrect the Jumbie dance of the Caribbean island of Montserrat.
Read moreUnframing Photography: Performing the image to see otherwise comprises a culmination of the titular multifaceted project that was initiated by the urgency to reconsider the medium of photography as a technology of visuality.
Read moreA treasure-trove of performance exercises that will be invaluable to performance-makers, educators and students as they develop their creative practice.
Read moreThree discrete commissions using performance and experimental documentary to explore the body as a site for the production and retention of knowledge.
Read moreCommon Salt was a performance around a table – a ‘show and tell’ by artists Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer. It explored the colonial, geographical and natural history of England and India taking an expansive and emotional time-travel.
Read moreFinal Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles is a book of intergenerational dialogue between artists, scholars and activists about what it means to transfer the skills, ideas and mysteries of performance through pandemic and crises.
Read moreA good love story shouldn’t have too many words. This one gets to the point as directly as possible. It turns “me too” into sex-positive empowerment and dark comedy, whilst talking about contemporary Live Art, genderfluidity, online dating, polyamory and its pitfalls. It is a feminist celebration of love and the attempt to escape from sexism, ageism and racism by pitching them all against each other and leaving the party with the sweetest guy of all.
Read moreThrough prose, poetry, drawing and photography In Other Words is a collection of urgent reflections, created by artists exploring their hopes and fears at a time of global crisis. It is a clarion call for change from a group rich in wisdom, shared experience, and what it means to be marginalised in the UK in 2020.
Read moreFour essays on the four artists shortlisted for the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art 2020.
Read moreDrawning on a year-long project by the artist Tara Fatehi Irani, Mishandled Archive is a way of imagining, creating and disseminating a nomadic archive.
Read moreA new anthology of cultural criticism, focusing on the making, watching and conditions of Live Art and performance in the UK today.
Read moreWith a mixture of intellect, humour, and striking design, Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation analyses the artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness, visual art and participatory practices.
Read moreThis book documents some of Daniel Oliver’s awkward participatory performance worlds, and brings together critical and creative response by artists and writers.
Read moreFour essays on the four artists shortlisted for the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art 2019.
Read morePraxis Volume Two is an invitation to encounter work and thinking in motion, responding to place, conversation and archiving.
Read moreThe fifth edition of LADA’s ‘Live Art Almanac’ series, a collections of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art
Read moreIt’s Time responds to the recent successes of Live Art and highlights those artists, projects and initiatives which are re-politicising and re-energising our arts spaces.
Read moreLooking back at the last 20 years of Live Art through the lens of LADA, edited by Theron Schmidt and co-published with Intellect Books
Read moreChucking marginalised status out of the patriarchal pushchair, this anthology cites work by people who perform rebellious gen-age identities.
Read moreAn extraordinary response by artist Lucy Hutson to their experiences within the mental health system.
Read moreAn intimate collection on love and dissent by artists and writers.
Read moreEssays and dialogues reflecting on a four year pan European project.
Read moreA free zine for teens by Scottee, Travis Alabanza, Selina Thompson, Emma Frankland.
Read moreA publication gathering a variety of materials on the subject of masturbation.
Read moreThe extraordinary story of Franko’s life, loves and becoming an artist.
Read moreThe first book to bring together writing and documentation on the artist Martin O’Brien
Read moreCurated by Curious, ABC can be used by artists and non-artists in need of creative succour and survival
Read moreA book based on Tanja Ostojić’s project ‘the Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić’.
Read moreThis publication is the first major survey of the interdisciplinary practices of Kira O’Reilly
Read moreA publication written in response to Cherophobia, a 48-hour durational living installation by Noëmi Lakmaier
Read moreApplies the notion of the performative to the context of curating
Read moreA collection that considers the affective and critical practice of finding, remembering (or imagining), and creating an archive
Read moreA conversation about community, engagement, collaboration and co-creation
Read moreVarious examples linking audience participation in theatre to problems of social engagement
Read moreThis book is a collection of essays and interviews addressing institutional crises and performance
Read moreThe Live Art Almanac Volume 4 is a collection of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art
Read moreThe first book devoted to Adrian Howells’s remarkable achievements and legacy
Read moreInvestigates the performing arts as a political laboratory of the present
Read moreExplores the ways in which being in the field impacts on artists
Read moreA documentation of the stories of Lois Weaver: one of the pioneers of feminist and lesbian performance
Read moreDocumentation and writing regarding ‘The Dinner Party Revisited’ by Katherine Araniello
Read morePaperback edition of the first book dedicated to the extraordinary & influential artist Tehching Hsieh
Read morePaperback edition of the first book dedicated to the iconic performance artist Ron Athey now available
Read moreThe first book devoted to the history of Irish performance art. A co-publication with Intellect Books Launch events occurred in the United States during February 2016 to mark the publication and featured both performances and lectures by Áine Phillips. More info
Read moreAn ongoing, long-term project that repeats a single-staged sequence year in and year out
Read moreCollaborative venture between Manuel Vason and forty artists working with performance in the UK
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