Contemporary Myths is an exchange programme created by Visiting Arts and the British Council. Theatre makers and performers from Iran and the UK come together to explore the theme of myth in contemporary performance. The project took place in 3 cities (Farnham, Liverpool, Dartington) in the UK during May 2011.
| Artist / Author | Visiting Arts |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Visiting Arts/British Council |
| Reference | D1681 |
| Date | 2011 |
| Type | DVD |
Documentation from the 672 Hour Live Process Performance in Istanbul, 2018. Includes the poster, individual videos of performances, and a document with details on all performances.
Reaffirms the central position of the body in various artistic practices through in-depth conversations with choreographers, composers, visual artists, hip hop artists, dramaturges, a light designer and a puppeteer.
Includes: It’s an Earthquake in My Heart: Reading Companion; The Sea & Poison: Reading Companion; North True South Free; The Lastmaker
Print newsletter from Create Ireland; includes an interview with Sandra Noeth. May 2017.
An absorbing portrait of an artist whose career spans three decades of American avant-garde performance. Collecting writings by Monk herself, along with significant reviews, essays, interviews, and photographs of Monk’s unique performance events, the book establishes her as one of the great treasures of contemporary American culture.
Existing in the space between imaginative proposition and a call to action, the book is an assemblage of provocations, proposals and potential ways of operating — ranging from navigating the city and inhabiting the margins to errant acts of reading; from preparing for the unexpected to learning how to ‘not know’, from minor acts of singular sedition to collective expressions of an insurgent ‘we’.
This collection of essays sheds new light on the political, ethical and aesthetic potential of participatory artworks and tests the very latest theoretical approaches to this subject.
Artists’ events, projects and publications curated, commissioned and produced from December 1979 to the present day. Found in miscellaneous article folder #5B
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Artist Ruth Ewan invited Strood residents to share their skills and knowledge of the town’s heritage, hidden stories, myths past and present, to be weaved into a subversive pantomime for the town. This performance programme includes the full script, invited writings and local archive material.
Performed on 22nd December 2015.
An overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s.
An international survey that brings together 40 of the most influential approaches to art in public.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Portfolio of images of the artistic work accompished by the duo over the last two decades.