Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s

Artist/Author: Danielle L. McGuire | Reference: P4194 | ISBN: 9780307389244

In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer–Rosa Parks–to Abbeville. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that exposed a ritualized history of sexual assault against Black women and added fire to the growing call for change.

Artist/Author: Emilyn Claid | Reference: P4189 | ISBN: 978-1-3500-7571-9 | Type: Publication

This is a book about falling as a means of reconfiguring our relationship with living and dying. Dancer, choreographer, educator and therapist Emilyn Claid draws inspiration from her personal and professional experiences to explore alternative approaches to being present in the world.

Artist/Author: Guillermo Gómez-Peña | Editor: Emma Tramposch, Balitrónica Gómez, Elaine A. Peña, William Stark | Reference: P4170 | ISBN: 9780367219253 | Type: Publication

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.

Artist/Author: Elaine Rutishauser, Klodin Erb | Editor: Stephan Kunz, Silvia Conzett | Reference: P4154 | ISBN: 978-3-905240-70-2 | Type: Publication

A selection of artwork and text by artists Elaine Rutishauser and Klodin Erb.

In German

Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

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.

Digital Reference: EF5372 | Type: Digital File

Video documentation of the book launch, as part of LADA Screens. Includes 4 videos.

Artist/Author: Jerri Daboo | Digital Reference: EF5370 | Type: Digital File

Forty years since the publication of Naseem Khan’s seminal report The Arts Britain Ignores, how much has changed?

Editor: Aaron Cezar, Dani Burrows | Reference: P4128 | ISBN: 978-3-95679-516-9 | Type: Publication

Documenting the eponymous six year project as well as the current research and thinking around the subject with contributions by prominent artists, academics, activists and chefs.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights ( P3041).

Artist/Author: Erin Manning | Reference: P4127 | ISBN: 978-0822361213 | Type: Publication

Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture.

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: Migrants in Culture and Keep it Complex | Reference: P4124 | Type: Publication

Materials from the activation day against the Hostile Environment policy. Organised by Migrants in Culture and Keep it Complex.

In the oversize cabinet.

Editor: Gisela Hochuli, Konrad Tobler | Reference: P4120 | ISBN: 9523742 | Type: Publication

Documents Bern’s performance scene. In German.