Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure

Artist/Author: Claudia Willke | Reference: D2323 | ISBN: 978-3-856165765 | Type: DVD

The Swiss art-rock band Les Reines Prochaines emerged from the youth and feminist movement of the 1980s. The movie traces the distinctive history of the Reines Prochaines and captures the artists in rehearsal and during their day to day life on tour.

Kindly donated for the Swiss live Art Study Room Guide.

Languages Swiss German, German.

77 minutes, HD

Digital Reference: EF5384 | Type: Digital File

Documentation of the event marking World AIDS Day. Included a screening of Ron Vawter’s performance at the ICA in 1993 as part of LIFT and a conversation between Neil Bartlett and Nancy Reilly.

Digital Reference: EF5382 | Type: Digital File

Documentation of the event which featured a screening of Theatre Visionary, a documentary about Abdoh, as well as a discussion with film’s director Adam Soch and director and academic Alyson Campbell.

Digital Reference: EF5378 | Type: Digital File

Documentation of the evening which featured a screening of short films and performance documentation by artists working around ritual, performance and queer futurity.

Artist/Author: Gisela Hochuli | Reference: D2322 | Type: DVD

A discussion in 17 thematic segments. 53 minutes.

Reference: D2321 | Type: DVD

Recounts the group’s evolution and different approaches to collaboration throughout the years. Two DVDs include a documentary, interviews with BMI members, and performance footage.

Artist/Author: Isabelle Choinière, Enrico Pitozzi, Andrea Davidson | Reference: P4126 | ISBN: 978-1789380798 | Type: Publication

Editor: Megan Vaughan | Reference: P4125 | ISBN: 978-1-350-06881-0 | Type: Publication

Tells the story of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted longform post to today’s digital newsletters and social media threads.

Artist/Author: Fred Moten | Reference: P4115 | ISBN: 978-0822370550 | Type: Publication

The concluding volume to Moten’s landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being.

Artist/Author: Stefano Harney, Fred Moten | Reference: P4112 | ISBN: 978-1570272677 | Type: Publication

Draws on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition to support, inspire and extend contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique.

Editor: Marta Dziewanska, Andre Lepecki | Reference: P4110 | ISBN: 978-8364177385 | Type: Publication

Investigates critical approaches to performance, ultimately aiming to stimulate new discussion between theorists and practitioners.

Artist/Author: Paul B. Preciado | Reference: P4090 | ISBN: 978-0231175623 | Type: Publication

Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.